Nomatsiguenga language
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The Nomatsiguenga language is an Arawakan language spoken by the Nomatsiguenga people of Peru’s Amazon rainforest, closely associated with the broader Asháninka linguistic and cultural group.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nomatsiguenga language canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7250868 — 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: Nomatsiguenga language Context triple: [Asháninka language, relatedTo, Nomatsiguenga language]
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A.
Picene language
The Picene language is an extinct Italic language once spoken by the ancient Piceni people in east-central Italy.
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B.
Kumbewaha language
The Kumbewaha language is an Austronesian language spoken in Sulawesi, Indonesia, belonging to the Wotu–Wolio subgroup.
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C.
Hoanya language
The Hoanya language is an extinct Austronesian language once spoken by the Hoanya people of western Taiwan and classified among the indigenous Formosan languages.
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D.
Opata language
The Opata language is an extinct Uto-Aztecan language once spoken by the Opata people of northern Mexico, particularly in the present-day state of Sonora.
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E.
Patamona language
The Patamona language is an indigenous Cariban language spoken by the Patamona people of the Guiana Highlands in Guyana and northern Brazil.
- 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: Nomatsiguenga language Target entity description: The Nomatsiguenga language is an Arawakan language spoken by the Nomatsiguenga people of Peru’s Amazon rainforest, closely associated with the broader Asháninka linguistic and cultural group.
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A.
Picene language
The Picene language is an extinct Italic language once spoken by the ancient Piceni people in east-central Italy.
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B.
Kumbewaha language
The Kumbewaha language is an Austronesian language spoken in Sulawesi, Indonesia, belonging to the Wotu–Wolio subgroup.
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C.
Hoanya language
The Hoanya language is an extinct Austronesian language once spoken by the Hoanya people of western Taiwan and classified among the indigenous Formosan languages.
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D.
Opata language
The Opata language is an extinct Uto-Aztecan language once spoken by the Opata people of northern Mexico, particularly in the present-day state of Sonora.
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E.
Patamona language
The Patamona language is an indigenous Cariban language spoken by the Patamona people of the Guiana Highlands in Guyana and northern Brazil.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Arawakan language
ⓘ
indigenous language of the Americas ⓘ language ⓘ |
| belongsToMacroArea | South America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| closelyAssociatedWith | Asháninka people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo | Asháninka language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Peru ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Nomatsiguenga people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| family | Arawakan language family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Matsigenka-Nomatsiguenga (in some classifications)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nomatsigenga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBorrowingsFrom | Spanish language ⓘ |
| hasContactWith | Spanish language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDomain |
shamanic practices vocabulary
ⓘ
traditional ecological knowledge ⓘ |
| hasEndonym | Nomatsigenga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGrammaticalFeature |
aspectual distinctions
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evidentiality distinctions ⓘ person marking on verbs ⓘ rich verbal morphology ⓘ |
| hasISO639-3Code | not ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticArea | Amazonian languages area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticTypology | head-marking language ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive nasalization
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five-vowel system ⓘ simple consonant inventory ⓘ |
| hasSpeakerPopulationStatus | small population of speakers ⓘ |
| isEndangered | true ⓘ |
| isSpokenAlong |
Perené River region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tambo River region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isSpokenIn |
Cusco Region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Junín Region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isTaughtIn | some bilingual intercultural education programs in Peru ⓘ |
| isUsedBy | Nomatsiguenga communities in the Peruvian Amazon ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Arawakan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryWordOrder | SOV ⓘ |
| region | Peruvian Amazon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sharesCulturalSphereWith | Asháninka linguistic and cultural group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | vulnerable ⓘ |
| subfamily | Southern Arawakan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subgroup | Campan languages ⓘ |
| usedIn |
daily communication in Nomatsiguenga communities
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oral tradition ⓘ traditional rituals ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
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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: Nomatsiguenga language Description of subject: The Nomatsiguenga language is an Arawakan language spoken by the Nomatsiguenga people of Peru’s Amazon rainforest, closely associated with the broader Asháninka linguistic and cultural group.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.