Southern Uto-Aztecan
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Southern Uto-Aztecan is a major branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family that includes languages such as Nahuatl, Hopi, and the languages of many indigenous groups in Mexico and the U.S. Southwest.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Southern Uto-Aztecan canonical | 16 |
| Southern Uto-Aztecan languages | 13 |
| Southern Uto-Aztecan branch | 1 |
| Southern Uto-Aztecan language | 1 |
| Southern branch of Uto-Aztecan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T637373 — 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: Southern Uto-Aztecan Context triple: [Uto-Aztecan, hasSubfamily, Southern Uto-Aztecan]
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Northern Uto-Aztecan
Northern Uto-Aztecan is a major branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family that includes several indigenous languages spoken primarily in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.
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Uto-Aztecan
Uto-Aztecan is a large Native American language family of the Western United States and Mexico that includes languages such as Nahuatl, Hopi, and Ute.
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Coahuiltecan languages
The Coahuiltecan languages are a group of now mostly extinct indigenous languages once spoken by hunter-gatherer peoples in what is now southern Texas and northeastern Mexico, often classified within the proposed Hokan language family.
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D.
Southern Numic
Southern Numic is a branch of the Numic group of Uto-Aztecan languages spoken in parts of the southwestern United States.
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E.
Northern Athabaskan languages
Northern Athabaskan languages are a group of closely related Indigenous languages spoken primarily in northwestern Canada and Alaska, forming a northern branch of the larger Athabaskan language family.
- 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: Southern Uto-Aztecan Target entity description: Southern Uto-Aztecan is a major branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family that includes languages such as Nahuatl, Hopi, and the languages of many indigenous groups in Mexico and the U.S. Southwest.
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A.
Northern Uto-Aztecan
Northern Uto-Aztecan is a major branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family that includes several indigenous languages spoken primarily in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.
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B.
Uto-Aztecan
Uto-Aztecan is a large Native American language family of the Western United States and Mexico that includes languages such as Nahuatl, Hopi, and Ute.
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C.
Coahuiltecan languages
The Coahuiltecan languages are a group of now mostly extinct indigenous languages once spoken by hunter-gatherer peoples in what is now southern Texas and northeastern Mexico, often classified within the proposed Hokan language family.
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D.
Southern Numic
Southern Numic is a branch of the Numic group of Uto-Aztecan languages spoken in parts of the southwestern United States.
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E.
Northern Athabaskan languages
Northern Athabaskan languages are a group of closely related Indigenous languages spoken primarily in northwestern Canada and Alaska, forming a northern branch of the larger Athabaskan language family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Southern Uto-Aztecan Description of subject: Southern Uto-Aztecan is a major branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family that includes languages such as Nahuatl, Hopi, and the languages of many indigenous groups in Mexico and the U.S. Southwest.
Referenced by (32)
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Southern Uto-Aztecan languages
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Southern Uto-Aztecan branch
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Southern Uto-Aztecan languages
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Southern Uto-Aztecan languages
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Southern Uto-Aztecan languages
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Southern Uto-Aztecan languages
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Southern Uto-Aztecan languages
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Southern Uto-Aztecan languages
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Southern Uto-Aztecan languages
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Southern Uto-Aztecan languages
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Southern Uto-Aztecan languages
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Southern Uto-Aztecan language
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Southern Uto-Aztecan languages
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Southern Uto-Aztecan languages
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Southern branch of Uto-Aztecan