Negidal language
E302343
The Negidal language is a critically endangered Tungusic language traditionally spoken by the Negidal people in the Russian Far East along the lower Amur River.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Negidal language canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2831915 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Negidal language Context triple: [Tungusic languages, hasMemberLanguage, Negidal language]
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A.
Damara language
The Damara language is a Khoe (Central Khoisan) language spoken primarily by the Damara people of Namibia.
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B.
Hoanya language
The Hoanya language is an extinct Austronesian language once spoken by the Hoanya people of western Taiwan and classified among the indigenous Formosan languages.
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C.
Amuesha language
The Amuesha language, also known as Yanesha', is an Arawakan language spoken by the Yanesha' people of the central Peruvian Amazon.
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D.
Vestinian language
The Vestinian language was an ancient, poorly attested Italic tongue once spoken by the Vestini people in central Italy and classified within the Sabellic branch.
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E.
Blablanga language
The Blablanga language is an Oceanic language spoken in the Solomon Islands, belonging to the Northwest Solomonic subgroup of the Austronesian language family.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Negidal language Target entity description: The Negidal language is a critically endangered Tungusic language traditionally spoken by the Negidal people in the Russian Far East along the lower Amur River.
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A.
Damara language
The Damara language is a Khoe (Central Khoisan) language spoken primarily by the Damara people of Namibia.
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B.
Hoanya language
The Hoanya language is an extinct Austronesian language once spoken by the Hoanya people of western Taiwan and classified among the indigenous Formosan languages.
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C.
Amuesha language
The Amuesha language, also known as Yanesha', is an Arawakan language spoken by the Yanesha' people of the central Peruvian Amazon.
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D.
Vestinian language
The Vestinian language was an ancient, poorly attested Italic tongue once spoken by the Vestini people in central Italy and classified within the Sabellic branch.
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E.
Blablanga language
The Blablanga language is an Oceanic language spoken in the Solomon Islands, belonging to the Northwest Solomonic subgroup of the Austronesian language family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Tungusic language
ⓘ
critically endangered language ⓘ minority language ⓘ |
| basicWordOrder | SOV ⓘ |
| classificationStatus |
often treated as a separate language
ⓘ
sometimes treated as a dialect of Evenki ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Even language
ⓘ
Evenki language ⓘ |
| country |
Russia
ⓘ
surface form:
Russian Federation
|
| documentationStatus | poorly documented ⓘ |
| endangermentLevel | UNESCO critically endangered ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Negidal people ⓘ |
| glottocode | negi1244 ⓘ |
| hasCaseSystem | yes ⓘ |
| hasConsonantHarmony | no ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Lower Negidal
ⓘ
Upper Negidal ⓘ |
| hasGrammaticalGender | no ⓘ |
| hasNumeralSystem | decimal ⓘ |
| hasPhonemicVowelLength | yes ⓘ |
| hasStressPattern | generally word-final stress ⓘ |
| hasVowelHarmony | yes ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | neg ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Tungusic languages ⓘ |
| languageShiftCause |
Russification policies
ⓘ
boarding school system ⓘ urbanization ⓘ |
| lexicalBorrowingFrom |
Evenki language
ⓘ
Nanai language ⓘ Russian language ⓘ |
| lexicalSimilarityWith | Evenki language ⓘ |
| morphologicalType | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| numberOfSpeakers | very few fluent speakers ⓘ |
| region | Khabarovsk Krai ⓘ |
| revitalizationEfforts | limited community initiatives ⓘ |
| shiftedTo | Russian language ⓘ |
| spokenAlong |
Amur River
ⓘ
surface form:
lower Amur River
|
| spokenIn |
Russia
ⓘ
Russia Far East ⓘ
surface form:
Russian Far East
|
| status | critically endangered ⓘ |
| subfamily |
Tungusic languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Northern Tungusic languages
|
| traditionalUse |
folklore
ⓘ
oral communication ⓘ shamanic practices ⓘ |
| usedBy | Negidal elders ⓘ |
| usedIn |
fishing terminology
ⓘ
reindeer herding terminology ⓘ traditional hunting terminology ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Cyrillic script ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Negidal language Description of subject: The Negidal language is a critically endangered Tungusic language traditionally spoken by the Negidal people in the Russian Far East along the lower Amur River.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.