Mochó
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Mochó is an indigenous Mayan language spoken by a small community in Chiapas, Mexico, and considered highly endangered.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mochó canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6839301 — 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: Mochó Context triple: [Mochoʼ, altName, Mochó]
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A.
Aracataca
Aracataca is a town in northern Colombia best known as the birthplace of Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez and the real-life inspiration for the fictional village of Macondo in his novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude."
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B.
Puerto Leguízamo
Puerto Leguízamo is a remote Colombian town and river port in the Amazon basin, known as a key gateway to the country’s southern rainforest frontier.
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C.
Bejucal
Bejucal is a Cuban town and municipality known for its historic role in the island’s early railway system and its traditional “Charangas de Bejucal” carnival festivities.
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D.
Betancuria
Betancuria is a historic inland town and former capital of the Canary Island of Fuerteventura, known for its traditional architecture and rural charm.
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E.
Babahoyo
Babahoyo is a city in western Ecuador that serves as the capital of Los Ríos Province and an important agricultural and commercial center.
- 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: Mochó Target entity description: Mochó is an indigenous Mayan language spoken by a small community in Chiapas, Mexico, and considered highly endangered.
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A.
Aracataca
Aracataca is a town in northern Colombia best known as the birthplace of Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez and the real-life inspiration for the fictional village of Macondo in his novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude."
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B.
Puerto Leguízamo
Puerto Leguízamo is a remote Colombian town and river port in the Amazon basin, known as a key gateway to the country’s southern rainforest frontier.
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C.
Bejucal
Bejucal is a Cuban town and municipality known for its historic role in the island’s early railway system and its traditional “Charangas de Bejucal” carnival festivities.
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D.
Betancuria
Betancuria is a historic inland town and former capital of the Canary Island of Fuerteventura, known for its traditional architecture and rural charm.
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E.
Babahoyo
Babahoyo is a city in western Ecuador that serves as the capital of Los Ríos Province and an important agricultural and commercial center.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mayan language
ⓘ
endangered language ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Mochoʼ
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Motozintlec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsToMacroArea | Mesoamerica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Mam
ⓘ
Tektiteko NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfficialStatus | not an official language of Mexico ⓘ |
| culturalAssociation | Mayan civilization ⓘ |
| dominantContactLanguage | Spanish ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus |
moribund
ⓘ
severely endangered ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Mochó people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution | southern Chiapas ⓘ |
| hasDocumentation |
grammatical descriptions
ⓘ
lexical materials ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | moch1259 ⓘ |
| hasGlottologName | Mocho NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasISO6393Code | mhc ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticTypology |
ergative–absolutive alignment
ⓘ
head-marking language ⓘ |
| hasNeighboringLanguages |
Mam
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Spanish NERFINISHED ⓘ Tojolabal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive tone absent
ⓘ
glottalized consonants present ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Mamean ⓘ |
| languageContactWith | Spanish ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Mayan language family ⓘ |
| languageStatusSource |
Ethnologue
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| morphologicalType | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| numberOfSpeakers | very few speakers ⓘ |
| primaryWordOrder | verb–object–subject ⓘ |
| region | Sierra Madre de Chiapas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| revitalizationEfforts |
community-based language teaching
ⓘ
documentation projects ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Mochó people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenInCountry | Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenInRegion | Motozintla de Mendoza NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenInState | Chiapas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subfamily | Western Mayan ⓘ |
| threatenedBy | language shift to Spanish ⓘ |
| usedInDomain | home and community communication ⓘ |
| usedLessInDomain |
education
ⓘ
mass media ⓘ |
| 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: Mochó Description of subject: Mochó is an indigenous Mayan language spoken by a small community in Chiapas, Mexico, and considered highly endangered.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.