Lycian
E38854
Lycian is an extinct Indo-European Anatolian language once spoken in southwestern Asia Minor and known from inscriptions dating to the first millennium BCE.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lycian canonical | 9 |
| Lycian language | 7 |
| Lycian A | 2 |
| Lycian group | 2 |
| Lycian B | 1 |
| Lycian people | 1 |
| Lycians | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T294199 — 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.
Target entity: Lycian Context triple: [Anatolian languages, hasLanguage, Lycian]
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A.
Argolid
Argolid is a historic region in the northeastern Peloponnese of Greece, renowned as the heartland of several major Bronze Age and classical Greek centers.
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B.
Cyrenaica
Cyrenaica is a historic coastal region in eastern Libya, centered around the ancient Greek city of Cyrene and long significant as a cultural and political area in North Africa.
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C.
Ionia
Ionia was an ancient region on the central western coast of Anatolia, famed as a cradle of Greek philosophy, science, and poetry.
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D.
Luwian polities
Luwian polities were ancient Anatolian city-states and kingdoms in what is now Turkey and northern Syria, known for their use of the Luwian language and hieroglyphic script during the Bronze and early Iron Ages.
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E.
Byblos
Byblos is an ancient Phoenician port city in modern-day Lebanon, considered one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world and a major center of early writing and trade.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Lycian Target entity description: Lycian is an extinct Indo-European Anatolian language once spoken in southwestern Asia Minor and known from inscriptions dating to the first millennium BCE.
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A.
Argolid
Argolid is a historic region in the northeastern Peloponnese of Greece, renowned as the heartland of several major Bronze Age and classical Greek centers.
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B.
Cyrenaica
Cyrenaica is a historic coastal region in eastern Libya, centered around the ancient Greek city of Cyrene and long significant as a cultural and political area in North Africa.
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C.
Ionia
Ionia was an ancient region on the central western coast of Anatolia, famed as a cradle of Greek philosophy, science, and poetry.
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D.
Luwian polities
Luwian polities were ancient Anatolian city-states and kingdoms in what is now Turkey and northern Syria, known for their use of the Luwian language and hieroglyphic script during the Bronze and early Iron Ages.
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E.
Byblos
Byblos is an ancient Phoenician port city in modern-day Lebanon, considered one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world and a major center of early writing and trade.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Anatolian language
ⓘ
Indo-European language ⓘ extinct language ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Lycian
ⓘ
surface form:
Lycian A
|
| attestedFrom | 5th century BCE ⓘ |
| attestedUntil | 4th century BCE ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Carian
ⓘ
Cuneiform Luwian ⓘ
surface form:
Luwian
Milyan ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| countryToday | Turkey ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | Greek alphabet ⓘ |
| documentedIn | bilingual inscriptions with Greek ⓘ |
| extinct | true ⓘ |
| geographicArea | Teke Peninsula ⓘ |
| hasCase |
accusative
ⓘ
dative ⓘ genitive ⓘ nominative ⓘ |
| hasCaseSystem | true ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Lycian
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Lycian A
Lycian II ⓘ
surface form:
Lycian B
|
| hasGenderSystem | true ⓘ |
| hasGrammaticalGender |
animate
ⓘ
inanimate ⓘ |
| hasMorphologyType | fusional ⓘ |
| hasNumberCategory |
plural
ⓘ
singular ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature | contrastive vowel length (debated) ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | verb-final (tendency) ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | xlc ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Anatolian ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Indo-European language family
ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-European
|
| partOf | ancient Anatolian languages corpus ⓘ |
| regionOfUse | Mediterranean coast of Anatolia ⓘ |
| scriptType | alphabet ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Lycia
ⓘ
southwestern Anatolia ⓘ southwestern Asia Minor ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Anatolian languages
ⓘ
Indo-European language family ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-European languages
|
| timePeriod | 1st millennium BCE ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Lycian
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Lycian people
|
| usedFor |
funerary texts
ⓘ
legal inscriptions ⓘ religious inscriptions ⓘ royal inscriptions ⓘ |
| writingDirection | left-to-right ⓘ |
| writingEvidence |
funerary inscriptions
ⓘ
public inscriptions ⓘ stone inscriptions ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Lycian alphabet ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Lycian Description of subject: Lycian is an extinct Indo-European Anatolian language once spoken in southwestern Asia Minor and known from inscriptions dating to the first millennium BCE.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.