Brazilian Sign Language
E802663
Brazilian Sign Language is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Brazil, recognized officially and shaped by both local development and historical influence from French Sign Language.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Brazilian Sign Language canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9478066 — 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: Brazilian Sign Language Context triple: [French Sign Language family, hasMember, Brazilian Sign Language]
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A.
Nicaraguan Sign Language
Nicaraguan Sign Language is a naturally emerged sign language developed by deaf children in Nicaragua in the late 20th century, widely studied as a landmark case in the spontaneous creation of language.
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B.
American Sign Language
American Sign Language is a natural visual-gestural language used primarily by Deaf communities in the United States and parts of Canada, with its own distinct grammar and vocabulary separate from spoken English.
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C.
Korean Sign Language
Korean Sign Language is the primary visual-gestural language used by the Deaf community in South Korea, with its own distinct grammar and vocabulary separate from spoken Korean.
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D.
British Sign Language
British Sign Language is the primary sign language used by Deaf communities in the United Kingdom, with its own distinct grammar, vocabulary, and historical development separate from spoken English.
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E.
ASL
ASL is the ICAO airline designator used to identify Air Serbia in international aviation operations and communications.
- 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: Brazilian Sign Language Target entity description: Brazilian Sign Language is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Brazil, recognized officially and shaped by both local development and historical influence from French Sign Language.
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A.
Nicaraguan Sign Language
Nicaraguan Sign Language is a naturally emerged sign language developed by deaf children in Nicaragua in the late 20th century, widely studied as a landmark case in the spontaneous creation of language.
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B.
American Sign Language
American Sign Language is a natural visual-gestural language used primarily by Deaf communities in the United States and parts of Canada, with its own distinct grammar and vocabulary separate from spoken English.
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C.
Korean Sign Language
Korean Sign Language is the primary visual-gestural language used by the Deaf community in South Korea, with its own distinct grammar and vocabulary separate from spoken Korean.
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D.
British Sign Language
British Sign Language is the primary sign language used by Deaf communities in the United Kingdom, with its own distinct grammar, vocabulary, and historical development separate from spoken English.
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E.
ASL
ASL is the ICAO airline designator used to identify Air Serbia in international aviation operations and communications.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
language of Brazil
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ sign language ⓘ |
| country | Brazil ⓘ |
| developedIn | Brazil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | Libras NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Brazilian Sign
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Libras (Brazilian acronym) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCommunity | Brazilian Deaf community ⓘ |
| hasLexicalInfluenceFrom | Portuguese (through mouthing and loan signs) ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticResearch | conducted in Brazilian universities ⓘ |
| hasModality | visual-gestural ⓘ |
| hasName | Língua Brasileira de Sinais NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalParameters |
handshape
ⓘ
location ⓘ movement ⓘ non-manual markers ⓘ orientation ⓘ |
| hasRegionalVariation | dialects across different Brazilian states ⓘ |
| hasStandardizationEfforts |
Brazilian Deaf associations
ⓘ
Brazilian Ministry of Education NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasStatus | minority language in Brazil ⓘ |
| hasSubject-Verb-ObjectOrder | variable word order depending on discourse ⓘ |
| hasUserPopulation | hundreds of thousands of signers in Brazil ⓘ |
| influencedBy | French Sign Language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | bzs ⓘ |
| languageFamily | French Sign Language family ⓘ |
| legalInstrument | Brazilian Law 10.436/2002 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legalRecognitionYear | 2002 ⓘ |
| legalStatus | recognized by Brazilian federal law ⓘ |
| notMutuallyIntelligibleWith |
American Sign Language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
spoken Portuguese ⓘ |
| primaryUsers | Deaf community in Brazil ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | official language for communication of Deaf communities in Brazil ⓘ |
| regulatedBy | Decree 5.626/2005 in Brazil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| taughtAt |
Brazilian universities
ⓘ
teacher training programs for Deaf education in Brazil ⓘ |
| usedBy | hearing interpreters in Brazil ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Brazilian media accessibility
ⓘ
Deaf education in Brazil ⓘ interpreting services in Brazil ⓘ |
| usedInEducationPolicy | bilingual education for Deaf students in Brazil ⓘ |
| usesArticulation |
body posture
ⓘ
facial expressions ⓘ handshapes ⓘ locations ⓘ movements ⓘ |
| writingSystem | no standard native written form ⓘ |
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: Brazilian Sign Language Description of subject: Brazilian Sign Language is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Brazil, recognized officially and shaped by both local development and historical influence from French Sign Language.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.