Maiduan
E432296
Maiduan is a small family of Native American languages historically spoken in northeastern California by the Maidu people.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maiduan canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4322398 — 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: Maiduan Context triple: [Maiduan languages, glottologName, Maiduan]
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A.
Badajoz
Badajoz is a historic city in western Spain near the Portuguese border, known for its medieval fortress and role as a strategic frontier stronghold.
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B.
Burgos
Burgos is a historic city in northern Spain known for its medieval architecture and its prominent role during the Spanish Civil War.
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C.
Sagunto
Sagunto is a historic coastal town in eastern Spain renowned for its ancient Roman theatre and hilltop castle overlooking the Mediterranean.
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D.
Baeza
Baeza is a historic Andalusian town in southern Spain renowned for its well-preserved Renaissance architecture and status as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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E.
Segovia
Segovia is a historic Spanish city in the region of Castile and León, renowned for its Roman aqueduct, medieval architecture, and well-preserved old town.
- 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: Maiduan Target entity description: Maiduan is a small family of Native American languages historically spoken in northeastern California by the Maidu people.
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A.
Badajoz
Badajoz is a historic city in western Spain near the Portuguese border, known for its medieval fortress and role as a strategic frontier stronghold.
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B.
Burgos
Burgos is a historic city in northern Spain known for its medieval architecture and its prominent role during the Spanish Civil War.
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C.
Sagunto
Sagunto is a historic coastal town in eastern Spain renowned for its ancient Roman theatre and hilltop castle overlooking the Mediterranean.
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D.
Baeza
Baeza is a historic Andalusian town in southern Spain renowned for its well-preserved Renaissance architecture and status as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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E.
Segovia
Segovia is a historic Spanish city in the region of Castile and León, renowned for its Roman aqueduct, medieval architecture, and well-preserved old town.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Native American language family
ⓘ
language family ⓘ |
| branchOf | Utian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| endangeredLanguageFamily | true ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Maidu people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| glottoCode | maid1261 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Maiduan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Maidu languages
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Maiduan languages ⓘ |
| hasAncestor | Proto-Maiduan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Konkow language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Maidu language NERFINISHED ⓘ Nisenan language NERFINISHED ⓘ Northeast Maidu NERFINISHED ⓘ Northwest Maidu NERFINISHED ⓘ Southern Maidu NERFINISHED ⓘ Valley Maidu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSubgroup |
Konkow
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nisenan NERFINISHED ⓘ Northeast Maidu NERFINISHED ⓘ Northwest Maidu NERFINISHED ⓘ Southern Maidu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | Feather River region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isoException | dialect ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Penutian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region |
Sacramento Valley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sierra Nevada foothills NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
California
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
northeastern California ⓘ |
| status |
moribund
ⓘ
severely endangered ⓘ |
| subclassOf | Utian languages ⓘ |
| usedBy | Maidu people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| 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: Maiduan Description of subject: Maiduan is a small family of Native American languages historically spoken in northeastern California by the Maidu people.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.