Qanjobal
E606579
Qanjobal is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Qʼanjobʼal people in the highlands of Guatemala.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Qanjobal canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6561585 — 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: Qanjobal Context triple: [Qʼanjobʼal, hasAlternativeName, Qanjobal]
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A.
Kuqa
Kuqa is an ancient oasis city in China’s Xinjiang region that historically served as a key Buddhist and Silk Road cultural center in the Tarim Basin.
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B.
Qaʾan
Qaʾan is a Mongol imperial title signifying the supreme ruler of the Mongol Empire, comparable to the Great Khan.
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C.
Qunaba
Qunaba is a rural locality in the Bundaberg Region of Queensland, Australia, known for its agricultural land and proximity to the Coral Sea coast.
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D.
Kalsa
Kalsa is a historic district of Palermo, Italy, known for its Arab-Norman heritage, medieval streets, and vibrant cultural life.
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E.
Kandan
Kandan is a locality within Beijing’s Fengtai District, known primarily as a residential and urban neighborhood area.
- 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: Qanjobal Target entity description: Qanjobal is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Qʼanjobʼal people in the highlands of Guatemala.
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A.
Kuqa
Kuqa is an ancient oasis city in China’s Xinjiang region that historically served as a key Buddhist and Silk Road cultural center in the Tarim Basin.
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B.
Qaʾan
Qaʾan is a Mongol imperial title signifying the supreme ruler of the Mongol Empire, comparable to the Great Khan.
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C.
Qunaba
Qunaba is a rural locality in the Bundaberg Region of Queensland, Australia, known for its agricultural land and proximity to the Coral Sea coast.
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D.
Kalsa
Kalsa is a historic district of Palermo, Italy, known for its Arab-Norman heritage, medieval streets, and vibrant cultural life.
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E.
Kandan
Kandan is a locality within Beijing’s Fengtai District, known primarily as a residential and urban neighborhood area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mayan language
ⓘ
indigenous language of the Americas ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| alignmentType | ergative–absolutive ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Kanjobal
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Qʼanjobʼal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Akatek
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chuj NERFINISHED ⓘ Jakaltek NERFINISHED ⓘ Tojolabal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
Guatemala
ⓘ
Mexico ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| ethnicGroupAssociated | Qʼanjobʼal Maya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Barillas Qʼanjobʼal
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
San Juan Ixcoy Qʼanjobʼal NERFINISHED ⓘ Santa Eulalia Qʼanjobʼal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLoanwordsFrom | Spanish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive glottalized consonants
ⓘ
tone or pitch distinctions in some analyses ⓘ |
| hasStandardizationEfforts |
bilingual education materials
ⓘ
orthography development ⓘ |
| languageCodeISO639-2 | kjb ⓘ |
| languageCodeISO639-3 | kjb ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Mayan language family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| linguisticArea | Mesoamerican linguistic area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| macrolanguageOf | Qʼanjobʼal dialects ⓘ |
| morphologicalType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| primaryRegion |
Guatemala
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Guatemalan highlands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primarySpeakers | Qʼanjobʼal people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recognizedBy | Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Mesoamerica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionOfOrigin | northwestern Guatemala ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Barillas municipality
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chiapas NERFINISHED ⓘ Huehuetenango Department NERFINISHED ⓘ San Juan Ixcoy municipality NERFINISHED ⓘ Santa Cruz Barillas region NERFINISHED ⓘ Santa Eulalia municipality NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | indigenous language with significant number of speakers ⓘ |
| subfamily | Qʼanjobʼalan branch ⓘ |
| subgroup | Western Qʼanjobʼalan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
daily communication
ⓘ
oral literature ⓘ traditional ceremonies ⓘ |
| wordOrder | VSO dominant ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
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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: Qanjobal Description of subject: Qanjobal is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Qʼanjobʼal people in the highlands of Guatemala.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.