Veps language
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Veps language is a Finnic Uralic language spoken by the Veps people in northwestern Russia, closely related to Finnish and Karelian.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Veps language canonical | 17 |
| Veps | 2 |
| Central Veps | 1 |
| Central Veps dialect | 1 |
| Northern Veps dialect | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1301282 — 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: Veps language Context triple: [Uralic languages, hasMember, Veps language]
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A.
Votic language
The Votic language is a nearly extinct Uralic language traditionally spoken by the Votes in Ingria, near the Gulf of Finland in northwestern Russia.
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B.
Karelian language
The Karelian language is a Uralic language closely related to Finnish, traditionally spoken by the Karelian people in parts of Finland and northwestern Russia.
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C.
Erzya language
The Erzya language is a Uralic, Finno-Volgaic language spoken primarily by the Erzya Mordvin people in central Russia.
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D.
Livonian language
The Livonian language is an almost extinct Uralic language historically spoken by the Livonian people along the northern coast of Latvia.
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E.
Kodava language
Kodava language is a Dravidian language spoken primarily by the Kodava (Coorg) community in the Kodagu district of Karnataka, India.
- 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: Veps language Target entity description: Veps language is a Finnic Uralic language spoken by the Veps people in northwestern Russia, closely related to Finnish and Karelian.
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A.
Votic language
The Votic language is a nearly extinct Uralic language traditionally spoken by the Votes in Ingria, near the Gulf of Finland in northwestern Russia.
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B.
Karelian language
The Karelian language is a Uralic language closely related to Finnish, traditionally spoken by the Karelian people in parts of Finland and northwestern Russia.
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C.
Erzya language
The Erzya language is a Uralic, Finno-Volgaic language spoken primarily by the Erzya Mordvin people in central Russia.
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D.
Livonian language
The Livonian language is an almost extinct Uralic language historically spoken by the Livonian people along the northern coast of Latvia.
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E.
Kodava language
Kodava language is a Dravidian language spoken primarily by the Kodava (Coorg) community in the Kodagu district of Karnataka, India.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Finnic language
ⓘ
Uralic language ⓘ minority language ⓘ |
| basicWordOrder | SVO ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Finnish language
ⓘ
Karelian language ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | severely endangered ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Veps people
ⓘ
linked to:
Livonian people
|
| family |
Uralic language family
ⓘ
linked to:
Uralic languages
|
| hasAncestor |
Proto-Finnic
ⓘ
linked to:
Proto-Finnic language
Proto-Uralic ⓘ
linked to:
Proto-Uralic language
|
| hasCase |
elative case
ⓘ
genitive case ⓘ illative case ⓘ inessive case ⓘ nominative case ⓘ partitive case ⓘ |
| hasCaseSystem | rich case system ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Central Veps dialect
ⓘ
linked to:
Veps language
Northern Veps dialect ⓘ
linked to:
Veps language
Southern Veps dialect ⓘ |
| hasGrammaticalGender | no grammatical gender ⓘ |
| hasLiteraryStandard | yes ⓘ |
| hasLoanwordsFrom |
Finnish language
ⓘ
Karelian language ⓘ Russian language ⓘ |
| hasNumberCategory |
plural
ⓘ
singular ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
long and short vowels
ⓘ
palatalized consonants ⓘ |
| hasVowelHarmony | no productive vowel harmony ⓘ |
| ISO639-2 | vep ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | vep ⓘ |
| languageCode | vep ⓘ |
| languageFamilyBranch |
Northern Finnic
ⓘ
linked to:
Finnic languages
|
| morphologicalType | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| nativeName | vepsän kel’ ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | minority language in Karelia ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Leningrad Oblast
ⓘ
Republic of Karelia ⓘ
linked to:
Russian Republic of Karelia
Russian Federation ⓘ
linked to:
Russia
Vologda Oblast ⓘ northwestern Russia ⓘ |
| standardizationPeriod | late 20th century ⓘ |
| subfamily |
Baltic-Finnic subgroup
ⓘ
Finnic branch ⓘ |
| usedFor |
education in some schools
ⓘ
folklore and traditional songs ⓘ local media ⓘ |
| 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: Veps language Description of subject: Veps language is a Finnic Uralic language spoken by the Veps people in northwestern Russia, closely related to Finnish and Karelian.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Veps language
linked to: Veps language
linked to: Veps language
Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History of the Karelian Research Centre RAS
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languageOfWork
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Veps
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linked to: Veps language
linked to: Veps language