Jakaltek
E153797
Jakaltek is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Jakaltek (Popti’) people of Guatemala’s western highlands.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jakaltek canonical | 12 |
| Awakatek | 1 |
| Jakaltek (Popti’) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1350816 — 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: Jakaltek Context triple: [Mayan languages, includesLanguage, Jakaltek]
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A.
Pucikwar
Pucikwar is an extinct Great Andamanese language once spoken by the Pucikwar people of the Andaman Islands in India.
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B.
Hamutal
Hamutal was a queen of Judah, known as the mother of the last king of Judah, Zedekiah, during the final years before the Babylonian exile.
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C.
Kalikula
Kalikula is a prominent tradition within Shaktism that centers on the worship of the fierce goddess Kali and related tantric practices.
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D.
Tejo
Tejo is the Portuguese name for the Tagus River, the longest river on the Iberian Peninsula that flows through Spain and Portugal into the Atlantic Ocean.
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E.
Rarámuri
The Rarámuri, also known as the Tarahumara, are an Indigenous people of northern Mexico renowned for their exceptional long-distance running abilities and traditional way of life in the canyons and mountains of the Sierra Madre.
- 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: Jakaltek Target entity description: Jakaltek is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Jakaltek (Popti’) people of Guatemala’s western highlands.
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A.
Pucikwar
Pucikwar is an extinct Great Andamanese language once spoken by the Pucikwar people of the Andaman Islands in India.
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B.
Hamutal
Hamutal was a queen of Judah, known as the mother of the last king of Judah, Zedekiah, during the final years before the Babylonian exile.
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C.
Kalikula
Kalikula is a prominent tradition within Shaktism that centers on the worship of the fierce goddess Kali and related tantric practices.
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D.
Tejo
Tejo is the Portuguese name for the Tagus River, the longest river on the Iberian Peninsula that flows through Spain and Portugal into the Atlantic Ocean.
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E.
Rarámuri
The Rarámuri, also known as the Tarahumara, are an Indigenous people of northern Mexico renowned for their exceptional long-distance running abilities and traditional way of life in the canyons and mountains of the Sierra Madre.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Jakaltek Description of subject: Jakaltek is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Jakaltek (Popti’) people of Guatemala’s western highlands.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Jakaltek
linked to: Jakaltek