Upper Coquille
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Upper Coquille is an indigenous Athabaskan language historically spoken by the Upper Coquille people of southwestern Oregon in the Pacific Northwest.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Upper Coquille canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10778418 — 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: Upper Coquille Context triple: [Pacific Coast Athabaskan, hasMemberLanguage, Upper Coquille]
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A.
Chetco
Chetco is an extinct Athabaskan language formerly spoken by the Chetco people along the southern Oregon coast.
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B.
Yaquina River
The Yaquina River is a coastal river in western Oregon that flows through forested valleys before emptying into the Pacific Ocean at Yaquina Bay near Newport.
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C.
North Fork Coquille River
The North Fork Coquille River is a tributary stream in southwestern Oregon that flows through forested terrain before joining the main Coquille River on its way to the Pacific Ocean.
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D.
South Fork Coquille River
The South Fork Coquille River is a tributary of the Coquille River in southwestern Oregon, known for flowing through forested coastal terrain and supporting local communities such as the city of Powers.
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E.
Coos River
The Coos River is a coastal river in southwestern Oregon that flows through forested terrain to join the Coos Bay estuary near the Pacific Ocean.
- 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: Upper Coquille Target entity description: Upper Coquille is an indigenous Athabaskan language historically spoken by the Upper Coquille people of southwestern Oregon in the Pacific Northwest.
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A.
Chetco
Chetco is an extinct Athabaskan language formerly spoken by the Chetco people along the southern Oregon coast.
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B.
Yaquina River
The Yaquina River is a coastal river in western Oregon that flows through forested valleys before emptying into the Pacific Ocean at Yaquina Bay near Newport.
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C.
North Fork Coquille River
The North Fork Coquille River is a tributary stream in southwestern Oregon that flows through forested terrain before joining the main Coquille River on its way to the Pacific Ocean.
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D.
South Fork Coquille River
The South Fork Coquille River is a tributary of the Coquille River in southwestern Oregon, known for flowing through forested coastal terrain and supporting local communities such as the city of Powers.
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E.
Coos River
The Coos River is a coastal river in southwestern Oregon that flows through forested terrain to join the Coos Bay estuary near the Pacific Ocean.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Athabaskan language
ⓘ
indigenous language ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| ethnicGroup | Upper Coquille people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSpeakers | very few or none fluent ⓘ |
| indigenousTo |
Oregon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pacific Northwest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Oregon Athabaskan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
American indigenous languages
ⓘ
Athabaskan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Na-Dene languages ⓘ |
| region | southwestern Oregon ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Chetco language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lower Umpqua language NERFINISHED ⓘ Tolowa language NERFINISHED ⓘ Tututni language ⓘ |
| revitalizationStatus | subject of limited documentation and preservation efforts ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Upper Coquille people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Coquille River basin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
interior southwestern Oregon ⓘ |
| status | moribund or extinct ⓘ |
| subfamily | Pacific Coast Athabaskan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
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: Upper Coquille Description of subject: Upper Coquille is an indigenous Athabaskan language historically spoken by the Upper Coquille people of southwestern Oregon in the Pacific Northwest.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.