Catalan Sign Language
E802665
Catalan Sign Language is a natural visual-gestural language used primarily by the Deaf community in Catalonia, Spain, with its own grammar and lexicon distinct from spoken Catalan and Spanish.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Catalan Sign Language canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9478068 — 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: Catalan Sign Language Context triple: [French Sign Language family, hasMember, Catalan Sign Language]
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A.
Aragonese language
The Aragonese language is a minority Romance language spoken primarily in the Aragon region of northeastern Spain, closely related to Spanish and Catalan.
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B.
Catalan
Catalan is a Romance language spoken primarily in Catalonia, Valencia, the Balearic Islands, and parts of eastern Spain and southern France.
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C.
Algherese Catalan
Algherese Catalan is a Catalan dialect spoken in and around the city of Alghero in Sardinia, Italy, preserving medieval Catalan features within an Italian linguistic environment.
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D.
Valencian Spanish
Valencian Spanish is a regional variety of Spanish spoken in the Valencian Community in eastern Spain, characterized by influences from both standard Spanish and the local Valencian (Catalan) language.
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E.
Llanito
Llanito is a unique vernacular spoken in Gibraltar that blends Andalusian Spanish, British English, and elements from other Mediterranean languages.
- 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: Catalan Sign Language Target entity description: Catalan Sign Language is a natural visual-gestural language used primarily by the Deaf community in Catalonia, Spain, with its own grammar and lexicon distinct from spoken Catalan and Spanish.
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A.
Aragonese language
The Aragonese language is a minority Romance language spoken primarily in the Aragon region of northeastern Spain, closely related to Spanish and Catalan.
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B.
Catalan
Catalan is a Romance language spoken primarily in Catalonia, Valencia, the Balearic Islands, and parts of eastern Spain and southern France.
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C.
Algherese Catalan
Algherese Catalan is a Catalan dialect spoken in and around the city of Alghero in Sardinia, Italy, preserving medieval Catalan features within an Italian linguistic environment.
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D.
Valencian Spanish
Valencian Spanish is a regional variety of Spanish spoken in the Valencian Community in eastern Spain, characterized by influences from both standard Spanish and the local Valencian (Catalan) language.
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E.
Llanito
Llanito is a unique vernacular spoken in Gibraltar that blends Andalusian Spanish, British English, and elements from other Mediterranean languages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
natural language
ⓘ
sign language ⓘ |
| country | Spain ⓘ |
| glottocode | cata1286 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Catalan Sign
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
LSC NERFINISHED ⓘ Llengua de signes catalana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCommunity | Catalan Deaf community ⓘ |
| hasCorpus | video corpora collected by Catalan universities ⓘ |
| hasGrammar |
distinct from Spanish grammar
ⓘ
distinct from spoken Catalan grammar ⓘ |
| hasLexicon |
distinct from Spanish vocabulary
ⓘ
distinct from spoken Catalan vocabulary ⓘ |
| hasMorphology |
classifier constructions
ⓘ
rich non-manual morphology ⓘ use of spatial agreement ⓘ |
| hasResearchField | sign linguistics ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | relatively flexible word order ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem | no widely used native writing system ⓘ |
| isDistinctFrom |
Spanish Sign Language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
spoken Catalan ⓘ spoken Spanish ⓘ |
| isNotDialectOf | Spanish Sign Language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ISO6393Code | csc NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamily | French Sign Language family ⓘ |
| legalRecognitionYear | 2010 ⓘ |
| legalStatus | official language of Catalonia for the Deaf community ⓘ |
| modality |
gestural
ⓘ
visual ⓘ |
| primaryUsers |
Deaf community in Catalonia
ⓘ
children of deaf adults in Catalonia ⓘ hard of hearing people in Catalonia ⓘ |
| recognizedBy | Government of Catalonia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Catalonia ⓘ |
| regulatedBy |
Catalan Sign Language Center
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Plataforma per la Llengua de Signes Catalana (advocacy) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Balearic Islands
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Barcelona NERFINISHED ⓘ Catalonia NERFINISHED ⓘ Valencian Community (to a lesser extent) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedInEducation | bilingual education programs for deaf students in Catalonia ⓘ |
| usedInInterpreting | public services in Catalonia ⓘ |
| usedInMedia | interpreted news broadcasts in Catalonia ⓘ |
| usesArticulation |
body posture
ⓘ
facial expressions ⓘ handshapes ⓘ locations in signing space ⓘ movements ⓘ |
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: Catalan Sign Language Description of subject: Catalan Sign Language is a natural visual-gestural language used primarily by the Deaf community in Catalonia, Spain, with its own grammar and lexicon distinct from spoken Catalan and Spanish.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.