Core Mayan
E600291
Core Mayan is a major internal grouping of the Mayan language family that encompasses several closely related branches spoken across Mesoamerica.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Core Mayan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6561501 — 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: Core Mayan Context triple: [Yucatecan branch, subgroupOf, Core Mayan]
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A.
Kʼicheʼ Maya
The Kʼicheʼ Maya are an indigenous Maya people of the Guatemalan highlands, known for their rich linguistic and cultural heritage and for preserving traditions that predate the Spanish conquest.
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B.
Sayaxché
Sayaxché is a town and municipality in northern Guatemala known as a gateway to Maya archaeological sites and the forests and rivers of the Petén region.
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C.
Poqomchiʼ Maya
The Poqomchiʼ Maya are an indigenous Mayan people of the Guatemalan highlands, known for their distinct Mayan language, traditional agriculture, and rich ceremonial and cultural practices.
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D.
Mopan Maya
Mopan Maya is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Mopan people in Belize and Guatemala, known for its rich oral traditions and complex grammatical structure.
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E.
Colonia Cultura Maya
Colonia Cultura Maya is a residential neighborhood in the Tlalpan borough of Mexico City, known for its urban character within the southern part of the capital.
- 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: Core Mayan Target entity description: Core Mayan is a major internal grouping of the Mayan language family that encompasses several closely related branches spoken across Mesoamerica.
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A.
Kʼicheʼ Maya
The Kʼicheʼ Maya are an indigenous Maya people of the Guatemalan highlands, known for their rich linguistic and cultural heritage and for preserving traditions that predate the Spanish conquest.
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B.
Sayaxché
Sayaxché is a town and municipality in northern Guatemala known as a gateway to Maya archaeological sites and the forests and rivers of the Petén region.
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C.
Poqomchiʼ Maya
The Poqomchiʼ Maya are an indigenous Mayan people of the Guatemalan highlands, known for their distinct Mayan language, traditional agriculture, and rich ceremonial and cultural practices.
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D.
Mopan Maya
Mopan Maya is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Mopan people in Belize and Guatemala, known for its rich oral traditions and complex grammatical structure.
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E.
Colonia Cultura Maya
Colonia Cultura Maya is a residential neighborhood in the Tlalpan borough of Mexico City, known for its urban character within the southern part of the capital.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mayan language subgroup
ⓘ
language family subgroup ⓘ |
| distinguishedFrom |
Eastern Mayan (in some classifications)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Huastecan branch of Mayan ⓘ |
| familyColor | Mayan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution |
northern Central America
ⓘ
southern Mexico ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Core Mayan branch
ⓘ
Core Mayan subgroup ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
comprises closely related Mayan branches
ⓘ
reconstructed through comparative method ⓘ shares common morphological innovations within Mayan ⓘ shares common phonological innovations within Mayan ⓘ |
| hasLanguage |
Akatek
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chicomuceltec NERFINISHED ⓘ Chontal Maya NERFINISHED ⓘ Chuj NERFINISHED ⓘ Chʼol NERFINISHED ⓘ Itzaʼ NERFINISHED ⓘ Jakaltek NERFINISHED ⓘ Kaqchikel NERFINISHED ⓘ Kʼicheʼ NERFINISHED ⓘ Lacandon NERFINISHED ⓘ Mopan NERFINISHED ⓘ Qʼanjobʼal NERFINISHED ⓘ Tojol-abʼal NERFINISHED ⓘ Tseltal NERFINISHED ⓘ Tzotzil NERFINISHED ⓘ Tzʼutujil NERFINISHED ⓘ Uspantek NERFINISHED ⓘ Wastek NERFINISHED ⓘ Yucatec Maya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSubgroup |
Chʼolan–Tseltalan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kʼichean–Mamean NERFINISHED ⓘ Qʼanjobʼalan NERFINISHED ⓘ Tojol-abʼal subgroup ⓘ Wastekan NERFINISHED ⓘ Yucatecan ⓘ |
| isDefinedBy | comparative-historical linguistics of Mayan languages ⓘ |
| partOf | Mayan language family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Belize
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Guatemala NERFINISHED ⓘ Honduras NERFINISHED ⓘ Mesoamerica NERFINISHED ⓘ Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subclassOf | Mayan 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
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: Core Mayan Description of subject: Core Mayan is a major internal grouping of the Mayan language family that encompasses several closely related branches spoken across Mesoamerica.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.