Cocopah language
E101561
The Cocopah language is a Yuman language traditionally spoken by the Cocopah people of the lower Colorado River region in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cocopah language canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T804072 — 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: Cocopah language Context triple: [Lower Colorado River region, hasIndigenousLanguage, Cocopah language]
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A.
Maricopa language
Maricopa language is a Native American Yuman language traditionally spoken by the Maricopa people of the lower Colorado River region in the southwestern United States.
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B.
Yavapai language
The Yavapai language is an indigenous Native American language traditionally spoken by the Yavapai people of central and western Arizona.
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C.
Havasupai–Hualapai language
The Havasupai–Hualapai language is an indigenous Yuman language spoken by the Havasupai and Hualapai peoples of northwestern Arizona.
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D.
Cahuilla language
The Cahuilla language is an endangered Uto-Aztecan Native American language traditionally spoken by the Cahuilla people of Southern California.
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E.
Diegueño language
The Diegueño language is a Yuman language traditionally spoken by the Kumeyaay (Diegueño) people of southern California and northern Baja California.
- 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: Cocopah language Target entity description: The Cocopah language is a Yuman language traditionally spoken by the Cocopah people of the lower Colorado River region in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.
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A.
Maricopa language
Maricopa language is a Native American Yuman language traditionally spoken by the Maricopa people of the lower Colorado River region in the southwestern United States.
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B.
Yavapai language
The Yavapai language is an indigenous Native American language traditionally spoken by the Yavapai people of central and western Arizona.
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C.
Havasupai–Hualapai language
The Havasupai–Hualapai language is an indigenous Yuman language spoken by the Havasupai and Hualapai peoples of northwestern Arizona.
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D.
Cahuilla language
The Cahuilla language is an endangered Uto-Aztecan Native American language traditionally spoken by the Cahuilla people of Southern California.
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E.
Diegueño language
The Diegueño language is a Yuman language traditionally spoken by the Kumeyaay (Diegueño) people of southern California and northern Baja California.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Native American language
ⓘ
Yuman language ⓘ indigenous language of the Americas ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Maricopa language
ⓘ
Mojave language ⓘ Quechan language ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus | severely endangered ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Cocopah people ⓘ |
| family | Yuman language family ⓘ |
| glottocode | coco1260 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Cocopa
ⓘ
linked to:
Cocopa people
Cocopá ⓘ
linked to:
Cucapá
Cucapá ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
Mexican Cocopah dialect
ⓘ
U.S. Cocopah dialect ⓘ |
| hasDocumentation |
dictionaries
ⓘ
grammars ⓘ |
| hasGrammaticalFeature |
aspect marking
ⓘ
case-like relations expressed by postpositions ⓘ person marking on verbs ⓘ rich verbal morphology ⓘ |
| hasLanguageRevitalization |
community language classes
ⓘ
documentation projects ⓘ |
| hasPartOfSpeech |
nouns
ⓘ
postpositions ⓘ verbs ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
glottalized consonants ⓘ tone absent ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | coc ⓘ |
| isTaughtIn |
Cocopah tribal schools (Arizona)
ⓘ
linked to:
Cocopah Education Department
|
| languageFamily | Hokan (proposed) ⓘ |
| lexicalBorrowingFrom |
English
ⓘ
Spanish ⓘ |
| morphologyType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| region |
northwestern Mexico
ⓘ
southwestern United States ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Arizona
ⓘ
Baja California ⓘ Mexico ⓘ Sonora ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| subfamily | Delta–California Yuman ⓘ |
| traditionalRegion | lower Colorado River region ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Cocopah Indian Tribe of Arizona
ⓘ
Cocopah communities in Baja California ⓘ |
| wordOrder | SOV-dominant ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin script
ⓘ
linked to:
Latin alphabet
|
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: Cocopah language Description of subject: The Cocopah language is a Yuman language traditionally spoken by the Cocopah people of the lower Colorado River region in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.