Cochimí language
E146795
The Cochimí language is an extinct indigenous language once spoken by the Cochimí people of the central Baja California peninsula in Mexico.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cochimí language canonical | 4 |
| Cochimi language | 1 |
| Cochimí language historical area | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1269493 — 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: Cochimí language Context triple: [Yuman–Cochimí languages, hasLanguage, Cochimí language]
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A.
Yuman–Cochimí languages
Yuman–Cochimí languages are a group of closely related Indigenous languages historically spoken in the Baja California Peninsula and the lower Colorado River region of northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States.
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B.
Diegueño language
The Diegueño language is a Yuman language traditionally spoken by the Kumeyaay (Diegueño) people of southern California and northern Baja California.
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C.
Cocopa language
The Cocopa language is an indigenous Native American language spoken by the Cocopah people of the lower Colorado River region in the United States and Mexico.
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D.
Chemehuevi language
Chemehuevi language is a critically endangered Uto-Aztecan language traditionally spoken by the Chemehuevi people of the Great Basin region in the southwestern United States.
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E.
Cocopah language
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.
- 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: Cochimí language Target entity description: The Cochimí language is an extinct indigenous language once spoken by the Cochimí people of the central Baja California peninsula in Mexico.
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A.
Yuman–Cochimí languages
Yuman–Cochimí languages are a group of closely related Indigenous languages historically spoken in the Baja California Peninsula and the lower Colorado River region of northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States.
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B.
Diegueño language
The Diegueño language is a Yuman language traditionally spoken by the Kumeyaay (Diegueño) people of southern California and northern Baja California.
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C.
Cocopa language
The Cocopa language is an indigenous Native American language spoken by the Cocopah people of the lower Colorado River region in the United States and Mexico.
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D.
Chemehuevi language
Chemehuevi language is a critically endangered Uto-Aztecan language traditionally spoken by the Chemehuevi people of the Great Basin region in the southwestern United States.
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E.
Cocopah language
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Yuman language
ⓘ
extinct language ⓘ indigenous language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| associatedWithMission |
Misión San Francisco de Borja Adac
ⓘ
Misión San Ignacio Kadakaamán ⓘ Misión San Javier ⓘ
linked to:
Misión San Francisco de Borja Adac
Misión Santa Gertrudis ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Cocopah language
ⓘ
Kiliwa language ⓘ Kumeyaay language ⓘ Mojave language ⓘ Paipai language ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | Mexico ⓘ |
| documentedBy |
Jesuit missionaries
ⓘ
Jesús Ángel Ochoa Zazueta ⓘ Mauricio J. Mixco ⓘ |
| documentedIn | mission records ⓘ |
| endangeredStatusBeforeExtinction | severely endangered ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Cochimí people ⓘ |
| extinctionCentury | 20th century ⓘ |
| glottocode | coch1271 ⓘ |
| hasAlternateName |
Cochimí
ⓘ
Cochimí–Pericú (historical grouping) ⓘ
linked to:
Cochimí people
|
| hasDialect |
Northern Cochimí
ⓘ
linked to:
Cochimí
Southern Cochimí ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
rich consonant inventory ⓘ |
| hasResourceType |
grammatical sketch
ⓘ
vocabulary list ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem | Latin script ⓘ |
| iso639-3 | coj ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Cochimí–Yuman languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Yuman–Cochimí languages
|
| morphologyType | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| region |
northern Baja California Sur
ⓘ
linked to:
Baja California
southern Baja California ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Spanish language ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Baja California Peninsula
ⓘ
linked to:
Baja California
central Baja California ⓘ |
| spokenInCountry | Mexico ⓘ |
| status | extinct ⓘ |
| subfamilyOf |
Cochimí–Yuman language family
ⓘ
linked to:
Yuman–Cochimí languages
|
| usedBy | Jesuit missionaries ⓘ |
| usedIn |
catechisms
ⓘ
religious instruction ⓘ |
| wordOrder | verb–subject–object ⓘ |
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: Cochimí language Description of subject: The Cochimí language is an extinct indigenous language once spoken by the Cochimí people of the central Baja California peninsula in Mexico.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Cochimí language
linked to: Cochimí language