Mayo language
E313516
The Mayo language is an indigenous Uto-Aztecan language spoken primarily by the Mayo people of northern Mexico, especially in the states of Sonora and Sinaloa.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mayo language canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2957282 — 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: Mayo language Context triple: [Taracahitic, hasMember, Mayo language]
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A.
Maiwa language
The Maiwa language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Maiwa people in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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B.
Marau language
The Marau language is an Oceanic language spoken in the Solomon Islands, belonging to the Southeast Solomonic branch of the Austronesian language family.
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C.
Mampruli language
Mampruli is a Gur language spoken primarily by the Mamprusi people in northern Ghana and parts of neighboring West African countries.
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D.
Makushi language
The Makushi language is an indigenous Cariban language spoken primarily by the Makushi people in northern Brazil and southern Guyana.
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E.
Moxo language
The Moxo language is an indigenous Arawakan language spoken by the Moxo (Mojo) people of Bolivia’s lowland regions.
- 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: Mayo language Target entity description: The Mayo language is an indigenous Uto-Aztecan language spoken primarily by the Mayo people of northern Mexico, especially in the states of Sonora and Sinaloa.
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A.
Maiwa language
The Maiwa language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Maiwa people in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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B.
Marau language
The Marau language is an Oceanic language spoken in the Solomon Islands, belonging to the Southeast Solomonic branch of the Austronesian language family.
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C.
Mampruli language
Mampruli is a Gur language spoken primarily by the Mamprusi people in northern Ghana and parts of neighboring West African countries.
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D.
Makushi language
The Makushi language is an indigenous Cariban language spoken primarily by the Makushi people in northern Brazil and southern Guyana.
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E.
Moxo language
The Moxo language is an indigenous Arawakan language spoken by the Moxo (Mojo) people of Bolivia’s lowland regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American Indian language
ⓘ
Uto-Aztecan language ⓘ indigenous language ⓘ |
| basicWordOrder | SOV ⓘ |
| belongsToGroup |
Cahitan languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Cahita languages
|
| branch | Cahita ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo | Yaqui language ⓘ |
| country | Mexico ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | definitely endangered ⓘ |
| ethnicPopulation | Mayo people of Sonora and Sinaloa ⓘ |
| family |
Uto-Aztecan
ⓘ
surface form:
Uto-Aztecan language family
|
| geographicDistribution |
Fuerte River region
ⓘ
Mayo River valley ⓘ
surface form:
Mayo River region
|
| glottocode | mayo1272 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Yoreme
ⓘ
surface form:
Mayo-Yoreme
Yoreme language ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
Sinaloan Mayo
ⓘ
Akimel O'odham ⓘ
surface form:
Sonoran Mayo
|
| hasLinguisticTypology |
head-final
ⓘ
postpositional language ⓘ |
| hasLoanwordsFrom | Spanish ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasNeighboringLanguage |
Guarijío language
ⓘ
Opata language ⓘ Tarahumara language ⓘ Yaqui language ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
tone absent ⓘ |
| hasRevitalizationEfforts |
bilingual education programs
ⓘ
community language classes ⓘ |
| hasSociolinguisticSituation | bilingualism with Spanish is common ⓘ |
| iso639-3Code | mfy ⓘ |
| languageStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| nativeTo | northern Mexico ⓘ |
| region |
Río Mayo valley
ⓘ
surface form:
Río Mayo basin
|
| spokenBy | Mayo people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Mexico
ⓘ
Sinaloa ⓘ Sonora ⓘ |
| subfamilyOf | Cahita branch ⓘ |
| subjectTo | language shift to Spanish ⓘ |
| usedFor | daily communication in some Mayo communities ⓘ |
| usedIn |
oral tradition of the Mayo people
ⓘ
ritual narratives ⓘ traditional ceremonies of the Mayo people ⓘ traditional songs of the Mayo people ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin 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: Mayo language Description of subject: The Mayo language is an indigenous Uto-Aztecan language spoken primarily by the Mayo people of northern Mexico, especially in the states of Sonora and Sinaloa.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.