Japanese Sign Language
E133187
Japanese Sign Language is the natural visual-gestural language used by the Deaf community in Japan, with its own distinct grammar, vocabulary, and linguistic structure separate from spoken Japanese.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Japanese Sign Language canonical | 7 |
| Osaka dialect of Japanese Sign Language | 1 |
| Tokyo dialect of Japanese Sign Language | 1 |
| 日本手話 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1173420 — 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: Japanese Sign Language Context triple: [Korean Sign Language, notMutuallyIntelligibleWith, Japanese Sign Language]
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A.
Korean Sign Language
Korean Sign Language is the primary visual-gestural language used by the Deaf community in South Korea, with its own distinct grammar and vocabulary separate from spoken Korean.
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B.
British Sign Language
British Sign Language is the primary sign language used by Deaf communities in the United Kingdom, with its own distinct grammar, vocabulary, and historical development separate from spoken English.
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C.
New Zealand Sign Language
New Zealand Sign Language is the primary sign language of the Deaf community in New Zealand and one of the country’s official languages, known for its own distinct grammar and vocabulary.
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D.
Australian Sign Language
Australian Sign Language (Auslan) is the primary sign language of the Australian Deaf community, developed from British Sign Language and used for everyday communication, education, and cultural expression.
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E.
Finnish Sign Language
Finnish Sign Language is the primary visual-gestural language of the Finnish Deaf community, with its own grammar and vocabulary distinct from spoken Finnish.
- 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: Japanese Sign Language Target entity description: Japanese Sign Language is the natural visual-gestural language used by the Deaf community in Japan, with its own distinct grammar, vocabulary, and linguistic structure separate from spoken Japanese.
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A.
Korean Sign Language
Korean Sign Language is the primary visual-gestural language used by the Deaf community in South Korea, with its own distinct grammar and vocabulary separate from spoken Korean.
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B.
British Sign Language
British Sign Language is the primary sign language used by Deaf communities in the United Kingdom, with its own distinct grammar, vocabulary, and historical development separate from spoken English.
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C.
New Zealand Sign Language
New Zealand Sign Language is the primary sign language of the Deaf community in New Zealand and one of the country’s official languages, known for its own distinct grammar and vocabulary.
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D.
Australian Sign Language
Australian Sign Language (Auslan) is the primary sign language of the Australian Deaf community, developed from British Sign Language and used for everyday communication, education, and cultural expression.
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E.
Finnish Sign Language
Finnish Sign Language is the primary visual-gestural language of the Finnish Deaf community, with its own grammar and vocabulary distinct from spoken Finnish.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
natural language
ⓘ
sign language ⓘ visual-gestural language ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
JSL
ⓘ
Nihon Shuwa ⓘ 日本手話 ⓘ
linked to:
Japanese Sign Language
|
| hasCommunity | Japanese Deaf community ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Osaka dialect of Japanese Sign Language
ⓘ
linked to:
Japanese Sign Language
Tokyo dialect of Japanese Sign Language ⓘ
linked to:
Japanese Sign Language
regional dialects in Japan ⓘ |
| hasDistinctGrammarFrom | spoken Japanese ⓘ |
| hasDistinctPhonologyFrom | spoken Japanese ⓘ |
| hasDistinctVocabularyFrom | spoken Japanese ⓘ |
| hasLanguageCode | ISO 639-3: jsl ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticFeature |
non-manual marking of negation
ⓘ
non-manual marking of questions ⓘ use of classifiers ⓘ use of space for grammar ⓘ verb agreement through spatial modification ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticStatus | fully-fledged natural language ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticStructure |
lexicon distinct from spoken Japanese
ⓘ
morphology distinct from spoken Japanese ⓘ syntax distinct from spoken Japanese ⓘ |
| hasModality |
manual-visual
ⓘ
signed ⓘ |
| hasParameter |
handshape
ⓘ
location ⓘ movement ⓘ non-manual signals ⓘ orientation ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder |
flexible SOV patterns
ⓘ
topic-comment structures ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem | no widely standardized native writing system ⓘ |
| influenced | Japanese Sign Language-based sign systems in Japan ⓘ |
| isNotMutuallyIntelligibleWith |
American Sign Language
ⓘ
British Sign Language ⓘ spoken Japanese ⓘ |
| isRecognizedAs | language of the Deaf community in Japan ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf | linguistic research on sign languages ⓘ |
| isUsedBy | Japanese Deaf culture ⓘ |
| isUsedIn |
Deaf associations in Japan
ⓘ
Deaf clubs in Japan ⓘ Deaf schools in Japan ⓘ interpreting in Japan ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Japanese Sign Language family ⓘ |
| usedBy | Deaf community in Japan ⓘ |
| usesNonManualFeatures |
body posture
ⓘ
facial expressions ⓘ head movements ⓘ |
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: Japanese Sign Language Description of subject: Japanese Sign Language is the natural visual-gestural language used by the Deaf community in Japan, with its own distinct grammar, vocabulary, and linguistic structure separate from spoken Japanese.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Japanese Sign Language
linked to: Japanese Sign Language
linked to: Japanese Sign Language
subject linked to:
Chieko Wataya in Babel