nativeLanguage
P151
predicate
Indicates the language that a person or entity originally learned and uses as their primary or first language.
All labels observed (32)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| languageSpoken | 52,662 |
| nativeLanguage canonical | 13,293 |
| languageOfOrigin | 12,073 |
| motherTongue | 266 |
| nativeLabelLanguage | 110 |
| native language | 81 |
| languageOfNativeLabel | 74 |
| motherLanguage | 42 |
| hasNativeLanguage | 41 |
| 母語 | 12 |
| nativeLanguageOf | 11 |
| nativeLanguageCode | 5 |
| firstLanguage | 4 |
| nativeLanguageUsed | 4 |
| اللغة_الأم | 4 |
| languageOfCharacterOrigin | 3 |
| languageBackground | 2 |
| motherTongueLikely | 2 |
| primaryAncestralLanguage | 2 |
| 母语 | 2 |
| alsoNativeLanguage | 1 |
| bahasaAsli | 1 |
| canHaveNativeLanguage | 1 |
| firstKnownLanguage | 1 |
| idiomaNativo | 1 |
| languageOfUpbringing | 1 |
| lengua materna | 1 |
| nativeLanguageOfPersonnel | 1 |
| שפת אם | 1 |
| اللغة الأم | 1 |
| زبان مادری منسوب | 1 |
| 모국어 | 1 |
Description generation (PDg)
The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the predicate name and this instruction.
Instruction
Given a predicate that represents a relationship or action between entities, generate a one-sentence description explaining its meaning. # Instructions Focus on describing the relationship, not the entities themselves. # Response Format Begin the description with \' Indicates...\'
Input
Predicate: nativeLanguage
Generated description
Indicates the language that a person or entity originally learned and uses as their primary or first language.
Sample triples (78,705)
| Subject | Object |
|---|---|
| Lewis Henry Douglass | English via predicate surface "languageSpoken" ⓘ |
| Alan Webber | English via predicate surface "languageSpoken" ⓘ |
| Gerry Connolly | English via predicate surface "languageSpoken" ⓘ |
| Olamide |
Yoruba
ⓘ
surface form:
Yoruba language
|
| Henryk Sucharski | Polish ⓘ |
| Sara Sedgwick | English via predicate surface "languageSpoken" ⓘ |
| Bob Hope | English via predicate surface "languageSpoken" ⓘ |
| FCB | Spanish ⓘ |
| Wiljo Tuompo | Finnish ⓘ |
| Wiljo Tuompo | Finnish via predicate surface "languageSpoken" ⓘ |
| Newt Geiszler | English via predicate surface "languageSpoken" ⓘ |
| Andrew McCollum | English via predicate surface "languageSpoken" ⓘ |
| C. K. Steele | English via predicate surface "languageSpoken" ⓘ |
| Bettino Craxi | Italian ⓘ |
| Ben Shahn | English via predicate surface "languageSpoken" ⓘ |
| Ben Shahn | Yiddish via predicate surface "languageSpoken" ⓘ |
| Paul Robeson | English via predicate surface "languageSpoken" ⓘ |
| Paul Robeson | Russian via predicate surface "languageSpoken" ⓘ |
| Paul Robeson | German via predicate surface "languageSpoken" ⓘ |
| Paul Robeson | French via predicate surface "languageSpoken" ⓘ |
| Paul Robeson | Spanish via predicate surface "languageSpoken" ⓘ |
| Paul Robeson | several other languages via predicate surface "languageSpoken" ⓘ |
| Handler | German via predicate surface "languageOfOrigin" ⓘ |
| Handler | Yiddish via predicate surface "languageOfOrigin" ⓘ |
| Nye | English via predicate surface "languageOfOrigin" ⓘ |
| Curry | English via predicate surface "languageOfOrigin" ⓘ |
| Katharine Jefferts Schori | English via predicate surface "languageSpoken" ⓘ |
| Hugo de Groot | Dutch ⓘ |
| Rajahmundry | Telugu via predicate surface "languageSpoken" ⓘ |
| Elsa Löwenthal | German via predicate surface "languageSpoken" ⓘ |
| Naomi Biden | English via predicate surface "languageSpoken" ⓘ |
| Longshanks |
Anglo-Norman
via predicate surface "languageSpoken"
ⓘ
surface form:
Anglo-Norman French
|
| Longshanks | Latin via predicate surface "languageSpoken" ⓘ |
| Timaeus of Tauromenium | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| Ngozi | Igbo via predicate surface "languageOfOrigin" ⓘ |
| Eudoxia Lopukhina | Russian via predicate surface "languageSpoken" ⓘ |
| Jadwiga Piłsudska | Polish via predicate surface "languageSpoken" ⓘ |
| Jadwiga Piłsudska | English via predicate surface "languageSpoken" ⓘ |
| Bannu |
Pashto language
via predicate surface "languageSpoken"
ⓘ
surface form:
Pashto
|
| Bannu |
Urdu language
via predicate surface "languageSpoken"
ⓘ
surface form:
Urdu
|
| Bannu | English via predicate surface "languageSpoken" ⓘ |
| Kumrat Valley |
Pashto language
via predicate surface "languageSpoken"
ⓘ
surface form:
Pashto
|
| Li Keqiang | Mandarin Chinese via predicate surface "languageSpoken" ⓘ |
| Li Keqiang | Chinese ⓘ |
| Maria Barbara Bach | German via predicate surface "languageSpoken" ⓘ |
| Gianluigi Buffon | Italian via predicate surface "languageSpoken" ⓘ |
| Lukas Podolski | German via predicate surface "languageSpoken" ⓘ |
| Lukas Podolski | Polish via predicate surface "languageSpoken" ⓘ |
| Pietro Nenni | Italian ⓘ |
| Kevin Cash | English via predicate surface "languageSpoken" ⓘ |