Cocama language
E924716
The Cocama language is an endangered indigenous Tupian language spoken by the Cocama-Cocamilla people in the Amazon regions of Peru, Brazil, and Colombia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cocama language canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11424496 — 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: Cocama language Context triple: [Cocama-Cocamilla, language, Cocama language]
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A.
Cochimí language
The Cochimí language is an extinct indigenous language once spoken by the Cochimí people of the central Baja California peninsula in Mexico.
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B.
Secoya language
The Secoya language is a Western Tucanoan language spoken by the Secoya people of the Amazonian regions of Ecuador and Peru.
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C.
Cocopa language
The Cocopa language is an indigenous Native American language spoken by the Cocopah people of the lower Colorado River region in the United States and Mexico.
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D.
Arhuaco language
The Arhuaco language is an indigenous Chibchan language spoken by the Arhuaco people in Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta region.
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E.
Aguaruna language
The Aguaruna language is a Jivaroan language spoken by the Aguaruna (Awajún) people of northern Peru, closely related to the Shuar language of Ecuador.
- 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: Cocama language Target entity description: The Cocama language is an endangered indigenous Tupian language spoken by the Cocama-Cocamilla people in the Amazon regions of Peru, Brazil, and Colombia.
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A.
Cochimí language
The Cochimí language is an extinct indigenous language once spoken by the Cochimí people of the central Baja California peninsula in Mexico.
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B.
Secoya language
The Secoya language is a Western Tucanoan language spoken by the Secoya people of the Amazonian regions of Ecuador and Peru.
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C.
Cocopa language
The Cocopa language is an indigenous Native American language spoken by the Cocopah people of the lower Colorado River region in the United States and Mexico.
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D.
Arhuaco language
The Arhuaco language is an indigenous Chibchan language spoken by the Arhuaco people in Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta region.
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E.
Aguaruna language
The Aguaruna language is a Jivaroan language spoken by the Aguaruna (Awajún) people of northern Peru, closely related to the Shuar language of Ecuador.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Tupian language
ⓘ
endangered language ⓘ indigenous language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Cocama-Cocamilla
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kokama NERFINISHED ⓘ Kokama-Kokamilla NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsToBranch | Cocama–Omagua branch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo | Omagua language ⓘ |
| continent | South America ⓘ |
| country |
Brazil
ⓘ
Colombia ⓘ Peru ⓘ |
| endangermentLevel | severely endangered ⓘ |
| ethnicPopulation | Cocama-Cocamilla people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasContactInfluenceFrom |
Portuguese
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Spanish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
Cocama
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cocamilla NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
person-number agreement on verbs
ⓘ
rich verbal morphology ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature | nasal harmony ⓘ |
| hasRevitalizationEfforts |
bilingual education projects in Peru
ⓘ
community-based language programs ⓘ |
| hasSociolinguisticSituation |
language shift to Portuguese
ⓘ
language shift to Spanish ⓘ |
| hasTypology | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | SOV-dominant ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | cod ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Tupian language family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lexifierInfluence | Tupi–Guarani NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region |
Amazon basin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Loreto Region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenBy |
Cocama people
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cocama-Cocamilla people NERFINISHED ⓘ Cocamilla people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Brazil
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Colombia NERFINISHED ⓘ Peru NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | endangered ⓘ |
| subfamilyOf | Tupi–Guarani languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedBy | indigenous communities along Amazonian rivers ⓘ |
| usedIn |
local community communication
ⓘ
ritual practices ⓘ traditional oral literature ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
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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: Cocama language Description of subject: The Cocama language is an endangered indigenous Tupian language spoken by the Cocama-Cocamilla people in the Amazon regions of Peru, Brazil, and Colombia.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.