Yeniseian languages
E476104
Yeniseian languages are a small, endangered family of languages spoken by Indigenous peoples of central Siberia, notably including Ket.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yeniseian languages canonical | 4 |
| Yeniseian | 2 |
| Yeniseian family of Siberia | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4800454 — 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: Yeniseian languages Context triple: [Indigenous peoples of the Arctic, haveLanguageFamily, Yeniseian languages]
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A.
Tungusic languages
Tungusic languages are a family of languages spoken in eastern Siberia, northeastern China, and parts of the Russian Far East, including languages such as Evenki and Manchu.
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B.
Paleosiberian languages
Paleosiberian languages are a group of several unrelated and mostly endangered indigenous language families spoken in northeastern Siberia.
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C.
Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages
The Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages are a small family of indigenous languages spoken in northeastern Siberia, known for their complex morphology and inclusion of languages such as Chukchi and Koryak.
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D.
Karluk languages
Karluk languages are a subgroup of the Turkic language family that includes major Central Asian languages such as Uzbek and Uyghur.
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E.
Yok-Utian languages
The Yok-Utian languages are a proposed macro-family of Native American languages that groups together the Yokutsan and Utian (Miwok–Costanoan) language families of California based on shared linguistic features.
- 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: Yeniseian languages Target entity description: Yeniseian languages are a small, endangered family of languages spoken by Indigenous peoples of central Siberia, notably including Ket.
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A.
Tungusic languages
Tungusic languages are a family of languages spoken in eastern Siberia, northeastern China, and parts of the Russian Far East, including languages such as Evenki and Manchu.
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B.
Paleosiberian languages
Paleosiberian languages are a group of several unrelated and mostly endangered indigenous language families spoken in northeastern Siberia.
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C.
Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages
The Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages are a small family of indigenous languages spoken in northeastern Siberia, known for their complex morphology and inclusion of languages such as Chukchi and Koryak.
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D.
Karluk languages
Karluk languages are a subgroup of the Turkic language family that includes major Central Asian languages such as Uzbek and Uyghur.
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E.
Yok-Utian languages
The Yok-Utian languages are a proposed macro-family of Native American languages that groups together the Yokutsan and Utian (Miwok–Costanoan) language families of California based on shared linguistic features.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
endangered language family
ⓘ
language family ⓘ |
| arealContactWith |
Mongolic languages
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ob-Ugric languages ⓘ Samoyedic languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Tungusic languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Turkic languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| documentationStatus |
poorly documented except Ket
ⓘ
reconstructed from historical sources for extinct varieties ⓘ |
| endangermentCause | language shift to Russian ⓘ |
| extinctLanguages |
Arin language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Assan language NERFINISHED ⓘ Kott language NERFINISHED ⓘ Yugh language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution |
basin of the Yenisei River
ⓘ
central Siberian taiga ⓘ |
| hasBranch |
Northern Yeniseian
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Southern Yeniseian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLanguage |
Arin language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Assan language NERFINISHED ⓘ Ket language NERFINISHED ⓘ Kott language NERFINISHED ⓘ Yugh language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLanguageStatus |
endangered
ⓘ
extinct ⓘ moribund ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticFeature |
complex verb morphology
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prefixing and suffixing verb structure ⓘ rich aspectual system ⓘ tone in Ket ⓘ |
| hasNotableLanguage | Ket language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfSpeakers |
several hundred for Ket in the 21st century
ⓘ
very few ⓘ |
| hasProposedGeneticRelation | Na-Dene languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasProposedMacroFamily | Dene–Yeniseian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasProtoLanguage | Proto-Yeniseian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRepresentativeLanguage | Ket language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lastSurvivingLanguage | Ket language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenAlong | Yenisei River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenBy |
Arin people
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Assan people NERFINISHED ⓘ Indigenous peoples of central Siberia ⓘ Ket people NERFINISHED ⓘ Kott people NERFINISHED ⓘ Yugh people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Russia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
central Siberia ⓘ |
| studiedBy |
Edward Vajda
NERFINISHED
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Heinrich Werner NERFINISHED ⓘ Sergei Starostin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Paleo-Siberian languages
NERFINISHED
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languages of Siberia ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Cyrillic script for Ket ⓘ |
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: Yeniseian languages Description of subject: Yeniseian languages are a small, endangered family of languages spoken by Indigenous peoples of central Siberia, notably including Ket.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Dené–Caucasian
subject surface form:
Dené–Caucasian
this entity surface form:
Yeniseian family of Siberia
subject surface form:
Dené–Caucasian
this entity surface form:
Yeniseian
subject surface form:
Dené–Yeniseian languages
subject surface form:
Dené–Yeniseian languages
subject surface form:
Dené–Yeniseian languages
this entity surface form:
Yeniseian