Western Miwok
E124917
Western Miwok is a now-extinct Native American language formerly spoken by the Coast Miwok people of northern California.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Western Miwok canonical | 6 |
| Western Miwok language | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T812518 — 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: Western Miwok Context triple: [Miwok languages, languageBranch, Western Miwok]
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A.
Eastern Miwok
Eastern Miwok is a branch of the Miwok Native American people and their associated language varieties traditionally spoken in the central Sierra Nevada and adjacent regions of California.
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B.
Plains Miwok
Plains Miwok are a Native American people of central California, traditionally inhabiting the lower Sacramento Valley and known for their distinct Miwokan language and cultural practices.
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C.
Coast Miwok
The Coast Miwok are an Indigenous people of what is now Marin and southern Sonoma counties in Northern California, known for their rich cultural traditions, coastal village life, and deep ties to the region’s land and waterways.
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D.
Bay Miwok
Bay Miwok refers to the Indigenous people and their now-extinct Miwokan language once spoken in the San Francisco Bay Area of California.
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E.
Central Sierra Miwok
Central Sierra Miwok is a Native American language traditionally spoken by the Miwok people of the central Sierra Nevada region in 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: Western Miwok Target entity description: Western Miwok is a now-extinct Native American language formerly spoken by the Coast Miwok people of northern California.
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A.
Eastern Miwok
Eastern Miwok is a branch of the Miwok Native American people and their associated language varieties traditionally spoken in the central Sierra Nevada and adjacent regions of California.
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B.
Plains Miwok
Plains Miwok are a Native American people of central California, traditionally inhabiting the lower Sacramento Valley and known for their distinct Miwokan language and cultural practices.
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C.
Coast Miwok
The Coast Miwok are an Indigenous people of what is now Marin and southern Sonoma counties in Northern California, known for their rich cultural traditions, coastal village life, and deep ties to the region’s land and waterways.
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D.
Bay Miwok
Bay Miwok refers to the Indigenous people and their now-extinct Miwokan language once spoken in the San Francisco Bay Area of California.
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E.
Central Sierra Miwok
Central Sierra Miwok is a Native American language traditionally spoken by the Miwok people of the central Sierra Nevada region in California.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Miwok language
ⓘ
Native American language ⓘ extinct language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| documentedBy | linguists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | extinct ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Coast Miwok ⓘ |
| glottocode | west2440 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Coast Miwok language
ⓘ
linked to:
Coast Miwok
Coastal Miwok ⓘ
linked to:
Coast Miwok
|
| hasDialect |
Bodega Miwok
ⓘ
Nicasio Miwok ⓘ
linked to:
Bay Miwok
Olema Miwok ⓘ
linked to:
Bay Miwok
Tomales Bay Miwok ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticTypology |
agglutinative language (primarily)
ⓘ
head-marking language ⓘ verb-final tendencies ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
rich consonant inventory ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | wmm ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Miwok
ⓘ
Miwokan ⓘ
linked to:
Miwok languages
Penutian (proposed) ⓘ
linked to:
Penutian languages
Utian ⓘ |
| languageOf | traditional narratives of the Coast Miwok ⓘ |
| locatedInTime |
19th century
ⓘ
early 20th century ⓘ pre-colonial period in California ⓘ |
| partOf | indigenous languages of California ⓘ |
| region |
Marin County, California
ⓘ
linked to:
Marin County
San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ Sonoma County, California ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Bay Miwok
ⓘ
Eastern Miwok ⓘ Sierra Miwok ⓘ |
| spokenBy |
Coast Miwok
ⓘ
Coast Miwok people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
northern California ⓘ
linked to:
Northern California
|
| status | extinct ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Miwokan language
ⓘ
linked to:
Miwok languages
Penutian language ⓘ Utian language ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Coast Miwok communities
ⓘ
linked to:
Coast Miwok people
|
| writingSystem | Latin script (for linguistic transcription) ⓘ |
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: Western Miwok Description of subject: Western Miwok is a now-extinct Native American language formerly spoken by the Coast Miwok people of northern California.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Western Miwok
linked to: Western Miwok