Asturian language
E122586
The Asturian language is a Romance language of the West Iberian group spoken primarily in the Asturias region of northern Spain, closely related to Leonese and Mirandese.
All labels observed (16)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Asturian | 11 |
| Asturian language canonical | 8 |
| Astur-Leonese | 3 |
| Astur-Leonese language continuum | 3 |
| Astur-Leonese language group | 2 |
| Leonese language | 2 |
| Astur-Leonese language | 1 |
| Astur-Leonese languages | 1 |
| Asturianu | 1 |
| Asturleonese Spanish varieties | 1 |
| Central Asturian | 1 |
| Eastern Asturian | 1 |
| Galician-Asturian | 1 |
| Gallego-Asturiano | 1 |
| Gallego-asturiano | 1 |
| Western Asturian | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1023402 — 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: Asturian language Context triple: [Galician language, hasNeighbourLanguage, Asturian language]
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A.
Aragonese language
The Aragonese language is a minority Romance language spoken primarily in the Aragon region of northeastern Spain, closely related to Spanish and Catalan.
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B.
Galician language
The Galician language is a Romance language spoken primarily in the Galicia region of northwestern Spain, historically and linguistically very close to Portuguese.
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C.
Llanito
Llanito is a unique vernacular spoken in Gibraltar that blends Andalusian Spanish, British English, and elements from other Mediterranean languages.
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D.
Maiduan languages
Maiduan languages are a small group of Native American languages once spoken in northeastern California, often classified within the proposed Penutian language family.
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E.
Murcian Spanish
Murcian Spanish is a regional variety of the Spanish language spoken mainly in the Region of Murcia in southeastern Spain, characterized by phonetic and lexical features similar to those of neighboring Andalusian dialects.
- 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: Asturian language Target entity description: The Asturian language is a Romance language of the West Iberian group spoken primarily in the Asturias region of northern Spain, closely related to Leonese and Mirandese.
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A.
Aragonese language
The Aragonese language is a minority Romance language spoken primarily in the Aragon region of northeastern Spain, closely related to Spanish and Catalan.
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B.
Galician language
The Galician language is a Romance language spoken primarily in the Galicia region of northwestern Spain, historically and linguistically very close to Portuguese.
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C.
Llanito
Llanito is a unique vernacular spoken in Gibraltar that blends Andalusian Spanish, British English, and elements from other Mediterranean languages.
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D.
Maiduan languages
Maiduan languages are a small group of Native American languages once spoken in northeastern California, often classified within the proposed Penutian language family.
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E.
Murcian Spanish
Murcian Spanish is a regional variety of the Spanish language spoken mainly in the Region of Murcia in southeastern Spain, characterized by phonetic and lexical features similar to those of neighboring Andalusian dialects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Romance language
ⓘ
West Iberian language ⓘ language of Spain ⓘ minority language ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Asturian culture ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Galician language
ⓘ
Leonese language ⓘ
linked to:
Leonese
Mirandese language ⓘ Spanish language ⓘ
linked to:
Spanish
|
| derivedFrom | Vulgar Latin ⓘ |
| glottocode | astu1245 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Astur-Leonese
ⓘ
linked to:
Asturian language
Asturianu ⓘ
linked to:
Asturian language
Bable ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
Central Asturian
ⓘ
linked to:
Asturian language
Eastern Asturian ⓘ
linked to:
Asturian language
Western Asturian ⓘ
linked to:
Asturian language
|
| hasFeature |
consonant palatalization
ⓘ
lenition of Latin consonants ⓘ neuter gender in nouns ⓘ periphrastic past tenses ⓘ use of definite articles with personal names ⓘ voiceless postalveolar fricative /ʃ/ in some dialects ⓘ |
| hasOrthography | standard Asturian orthography ⓘ |
| hasStandardForm | standard Asturian ⓘ |
| ISO639-2Code | ast ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | ast ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Romance languages
ⓘ
West Iberian languages ⓘ |
| legalStatus | not an official language of Spain at state level ⓘ |
| nativeName |
asturianu
ⓘ
bable ⓘ |
| partOf |
Astur-Leonese language continuum
ⓘ
linked to:
Asturian language
|
| primaryRegion | Principality of Asturias ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | protected language in Asturias ⓘ |
| region |
Northern Spain
ⓘ
linked to:
northern Spain
|
| regulatingBody |
Academia de la Llingua Asturiana
ⓘ
linked to:
Academy of the Asturian Language
|
| spokenIn |
Asturias
ⓘ
Cantabria ⓘ Castile and León ⓘ Extremadura ⓘ Portugal ⓘ Spain ⓘ |
| standardizedBy |
Academia de la Llingua Asturiana
ⓘ
linked to:
Academy of the Asturian Language
|
| subclassOf |
Ibero-Romance language
ⓘ
Indo-European language ⓘ |
| usedFor |
education in Asturias
ⓘ
literature ⓘ media and broadcasting in Asturias ⓘ |
| 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: Asturian language Description of subject: The Asturian language is a Romance language of the West Iberian group spoken primarily in the Asturias region of northern Spain, closely related to Leonese and Mirandese.
Referenced by (39)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
northern Spain
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subject linked to:
mirandés
linked to: Asturian language
subject linked to:
mirandés
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