Western Numic
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Western Numic is a branch of the Numic group of Uto-Aztecan languages spoken by Indigenous peoples in parts of the western Great Basin region of the United States.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Western Numic canonical | 7 |
| Mono–Northern Paiute subgroup | 1 |
| Western Numic languages | 1 |
| Western Numic peoples | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2957175 — 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: Western Numic Context triple: [Numic, hasSubdivision, Western Numic]
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A.
Southern Numic
Southern Numic is a branch of the Numic group of Uto-Aztecan languages spoken in parts of the southwestern United States.
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B.
Proto-Numic
Proto-Numic is the reconstructed common ancestor language of the Numic branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family, from which varieties like Southern Numic descended.
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C.
Uto-Aztecan
Uto-Aztecan is a large Native American language family of the Western United States and Mexico that includes languages such as Nahuatl, Hopi, and Ute.
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D.
Southern Uto-Aztecan
Southern Uto-Aztecan is a major branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family that includes languages such as Nahuatl, Hopi, and the languages of many indigenous groups in Mexico and the U.S. Southwest.
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E.
Numic languages
The Numic languages are a branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family spoken by several Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin and surrounding regions in the western United States.
- 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: Western Numic Target entity description: Western Numic is a branch of the Numic group of Uto-Aztecan languages spoken by Indigenous peoples in parts of the western Great Basin region of the United States.
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A.
Southern Numic
Southern Numic is a branch of the Numic group of Uto-Aztecan languages spoken in parts of the southwestern United States.
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B.
Proto-Numic
Proto-Numic is the reconstructed common ancestor language of the Numic branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family, from which varieties like Southern Numic descended.
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C.
Uto-Aztecan
Uto-Aztecan is a large Native American language family of the Western United States and Mexico that includes languages such as Nahuatl, Hopi, and Ute.
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D.
Southern Uto-Aztecan
Southern Uto-Aztecan is a major branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family that includes languages such as Nahuatl, Hopi, and the languages of many indigenous groups in Mexico and the U.S. Southwest.
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E.
Numic languages
The Numic languages are a branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family spoken by several Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin and surrounding regions in the western United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Uto-Aztecan language branch
ⓘ
branch of Numic languages ⓘ language subgroup ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution | western Great Basin ⓘ |
| hasAncestor |
Proto-Numic
ⓘ
Proto-Uto-Aztecan ⓘ |
| hasBranch |
Kawaiisu subgroup
ⓘ
Western Numic self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Mono–Northern Paiute subgroup
Panamint ⓘ
surface form:
Panamint subgroup
|
| hasMember |
Kawaiisu language
ⓘ
Mono language ⓘ Northern Paiute language ⓘ Northern Paiute language ⓘ
surface form:
Owens Valley Paiute language
Panamint (Koso) language ⓘ
surface form:
Panamint language
|
| isSisterBranchOf |
Central Numic
ⓘ
Southern Numic ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Uto-Aztecan ⓘ |
| languageGroup | Numic ⓘ |
| partOf |
Uto-Aztecan
ⓘ
surface form:
Uto-Aztecan language family
|
| spokenBy | Indigenous peoples of the western Great Basin ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Idaho ⓘ Nevada ⓘ Oregon ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| status | endangered (for several member languages) ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf | Numic ⓘ |
| typologicalFeature |
SOV basic word order
ⓘ
agglutinative morphology ⓘ |
| usedFor |
ceremonial practices
ⓘ
everyday communication in some communities ⓘ oral tradition ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin script (for some languages) ⓘ |
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
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Input
Subject: Western Numic Description of subject: Western Numic is a branch of the Numic group of Uto-Aztecan languages spoken by Indigenous peoples in parts of the western Great Basin region of the United States.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Western Numic languages
this entity surface form:
Western Numic peoples
this entity surface form:
Mono–Northern Paiute subgroup
subject surface form:
Mono language