Polish Sign Language
E802667
Polish Sign Language is the natural visual-gestural language used by the Deaf community in Poland, with its own grammar and lexicon distinct from spoken Polish.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Polish Sign Language canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9478071 — 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: Polish Sign Language Context triple: [French Sign Language family, hasMember, Polish Sign Language]
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A.
Finnish Sign Language
Finnish Sign Language is the primary visual-gestural language of the Finnish Deaf community, with its own grammar and vocabulary distinct from spoken Finnish.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Polish language
Polish language is a West Slavic language spoken primarily in Poland and by Polish communities worldwide, written in the Latin alphabet with distinctive diacritics.
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E.
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.
- 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: Polish Sign Language Target entity description: Polish Sign Language is the natural visual-gestural language used by the Deaf community in Poland, with its own grammar and lexicon distinct from spoken Polish.
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A.
Finnish Sign Language
Finnish Sign Language is the primary visual-gestural language of the Finnish Deaf community, with its own grammar and vocabulary distinct from spoken Finnish.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Polish language
Polish language is a West Slavic language spoken primarily in Poland and by Polish communities worldwide, written in the Latin alphabet with distinctive diacritics.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
natural language
ⓘ
sign language ⓘ |
| countryUsedIn | Poland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| glottocode | poli1260 ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | PJM NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAcquisitionType |
first language for many Deaf people in Poland
ⓘ
second language for some hearing people in Poland ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName | Polski Język Migowy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCommunity |
Polish Deaf community
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
children of Deaf adults in Poland ⓘ |
| hasGrammarType |
non-linear morphology
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topic-comment structure ⓘ use of spatial grammar ⓘ |
| hasLanguageFamilyStatus | relationship to other European sign languages under study ⓘ |
| hasLexiconDistinctFrom | Polish language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticResearch |
conducted at University of Warsaw
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conducted at other Polish universities and institutes ⓘ |
| hasModality | manual-visual ⓘ |
| hasMorphologyType |
use of classifier constructions
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use of spatial agreement ⓘ |
| hasNonManualFeatures |
body posture changes
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facial expressions ⓘ head movements ⓘ |
| hasPhonologyType | sign language phonology ⓘ |
| hasSyntaxFeature |
use of constructed action
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use of role shift ⓘ |
| hasUserPopulation | tens of thousands of users in Poland ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | flexible word order ⓘ |
| isNot |
Polski Język Migany (Signed Polish)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
signed form of spoken Polish ⓘ |
| ISO6393Code | pso ⓘ |
| primaryUserGroup | Deaf community in Poland ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | language of the Deaf community in Poland ⓘ |
| recognizedBy | Polish legal framework on sign languages (2011 Sign Language Act) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
education access for Deaf students
ⓘ
everyday communication among Deaf people in Poland ⓘ interpreting in public services in Poland ⓘ media accessibility in Poland ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Deaf associations and organizations in Poland
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Deaf cultural events in Poland ⓘ Deaf education in Poland ⓘ interpreting services in Poland ⓘ religious services with sign interpretation in Poland ⓘ |
| uses |
handshape parameters
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location parameters ⓘ movement parameters ⓘ non-manual markers ⓘ orientation parameters ⓘ |
| writingSystem | no standard widely used writing system ⓘ |
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: Polish Sign Language Description of subject: Polish Sign Language is the natural visual-gestural language used by the Deaf community in Poland, with its own grammar and lexicon distinct from spoken Polish.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.