maz (macrolanguage)
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The maz macrolanguage is a collective ISO 639-3 code encompassing the various closely related Mazatec languages spoken by the Mazatec people of Mexico.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| maz (macrolanguage) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8387599 — 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: maz (macrolanguage) Context triple: [Mazatec languages, hasEthnologueCode, maz (macrolanguage)]
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A.
Mam language
Mam language is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Mam people in the highland regions of Guatemala and parts of southern Mexico.
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B.
Mba languages
Mba languages are a small group of closely related Adamawa–Ubangi (Niger–Congo) languages spoken primarily in the Central African Republic and neighboring regions.
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C.
MAF
MAF is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code assigned to the French overseas collectivity of Saint Martin in the Caribbean.
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D.
MAF
MAF is the acronym commonly used to refer to the Myanmar Air Force, the aerial warfare branch of Myanmar’s armed forces.
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E.
Macharen
Macharen is a small village in the Dutch province of North Brabant that forms part of the municipality of Oss.
- 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: maz (macrolanguage) Target entity description: The maz macrolanguage is a collective ISO 639-3 code encompassing the various closely related Mazatec languages spoken by the Mazatec people of Mexico.
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A.
Mam language
Mam language is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Mam people in the highland regions of Guatemala and parts of southern Mexico.
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B.
Mba languages
Mba languages are a small group of closely related Adamawa–Ubangi (Niger–Congo) languages spoken primarily in the Central African Republic and neighboring regions.
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C.
MAF
MAF is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code assigned to the French overseas collectivity of Saint Martin in the Caribbean.
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D.
MAF
MAF is the acronym commonly used to refer to the Myanmar Air Force, the aerial warfare branch of Myanmar’s armed forces.
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E.
Macharen
Macharen is a small village in the Dutch province of North Brabant that forms part of the municipality of Oss.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ISO 639-3 macrolanguage
ⓘ
collective code for languages ⓘ language code ⓘ |
| coversMutuallyUnintelligibleVarieties | true ⓘ |
| encompasses |
Ayautla Mazatec
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chiquihuitlán Mazatec NERFINISHED ⓘ Huautla Mazatec NERFINISHED ⓘ Ixcatlán Mazatec NERFINISHED ⓘ Jalapa Mazatec NERFINISHED ⓘ Mazatec language varieties ⓘ Mazatlán Mazatec NERFINISHED ⓘ San Jerónimo Tecóatl Mazatec NERFINISHED ⓘ San Lorenzo Cuaunecuiltitla Mazatec NERFINISHED ⓘ San Miguel Huautla Mazatec NERFINISHED ⓘ San Pedro Ixcatlán Mazatec NERFINISHED ⓘ Soyaltepec Mazatec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCountry | Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | Mazatec people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasISO639-3Code | maz ⓘ |
| hasLanguageFamily | Oto-Manguean languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticStatus | recognized macrolanguage in ISO 639-3 ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryLocation | state of Oaxaca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRegion | Sierra Mazateca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasScope | macrolanguage ⓘ |
| hasSecondaryLocation |
state of Puebla
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
state of Veracruz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSubfamily | Popolocan branch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasType | living language macrolanguage ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
| isCollectiveCodeFor | closely related Mazatec languages ⓘ |
| isDefinedBy | ISO 639-3 standard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isMacrolanguageFor | individual ISO 639-3 Mazatec codes ⓘ |
| isPartOf | ISO 639 language coding system ⓘ |
| isUsedForLinguisticClassification | true ⓘ |
| representsLanguageFamily | Mazatec languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| representsLanguagesOf | Mazatec people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| representsLanguagesSpokenIn |
Mexico
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Oaxaca NERFINISHED ⓘ Puebla NERFINISHED ⓘ Veracruz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: maz (macrolanguage) Description of subject: The maz macrolanguage is a collective ISO 639-3 code encompassing the various closely related Mazatec languages spoken by the Mazatec people of Mexico.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.