Ixil
E157529
Ixil is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Ixil people in the highlands of Guatemala.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ixil Maya | 8 |
| Ixil canonical | 5 |
| Nebaj Ixil | 3 |
| Ixilan | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1350822 — 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: Ixil Context triple: [Mayan languages, includesLanguage, Ixil]
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A.
Fiambalá
Fiambalá is a small town in northwestern Argentina known for its high-altitude vineyards, desert landscapes, and nearby Andean mountain passes.
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B.
Xai-Xai
Xai-Xai is a coastal city in southern Mozambique that serves as the capital of Gaza Province and a regional center for agriculture, fishing, and tourism.
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C.
Iadera
Iadera is the ancient Roman and medieval Latin name for the coastal city now known as Zadar in Croatia.
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D.
Issel
Issel is a surname most notably associated with Dan Issel, a Hall of Fame American basketball player and coach.
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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: Ixil Target entity description: Ixil is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Ixil people in the highlands of Guatemala.
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A.
Fiambalá
Fiambalá is a small town in northwestern Argentina known for its high-altitude vineyards, desert landscapes, and nearby Andean mountain passes.
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B.
Xai-Xai
Xai-Xai is a coastal city in southern Mozambique that serves as the capital of Gaza Province and a regional center for agriculture, fishing, and tourism.
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C.
Iadera
Iadera is the ancient Roman and medieval Latin name for the coastal city now known as Zadar in Croatia.
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D.
Issel
Issel is a surname most notably associated with Dan Issel, a Hall of Fame American basketball player and coach.
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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 (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mayan language
ⓘ
indigenous language of the Americas ⓘ language ⓘ |
| alignmentType | ergative–absolutive ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Awakatek
ⓘ
Mam ⓘ |
| coexistsWith | Spanish in Guatemala ⓘ |
| countryOfficialRecognition | recognized indigenous language of Guatemala ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| family |
Mayan language family
ⓘ
linked to:
Mayan languages
|
| glottocode | ixil1238 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Ixhil (variant spelling)
ⓘ
Ixil Maya ⓘ
linked to:
Ixil
|
| hasBibleTranslation | partial Bible translation ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Chajul Ixil
ⓘ
Cotzal Ixil ⓘ Nebaj Ixil ⓘ
linked to:
Ixil
|
| hasEthnologueEntry |
Ethnologue: Ixil
ⓘ
linked to:
Ixil language
|
| hasGrammaticalFeature |
complex verb morphology
ⓘ
head-marking morphology ⓘ |
| hasLanguageAcademyOrBody |
Mayan Language Academy of Guatemala (ALMG)
ⓘ
linked to:
Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala
|
| hasLoanwordsFrom | Spanish ⓘ |
| hasNumberSystem | vigesimal (base-20) numeral system ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive glottalization
ⓘ
tone absent ⓘ |
| iso639-3Code | ixl ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Western Mayan ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Mayan
ⓘ
linked to:
Maya peoples
|
| languageOf | Ixil Maya culture ⓘ |
| morphologicalType | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| primaryWordOrder | VSO ⓘ |
| region |
El Quiché highlands
ⓘ
linked to:
Guatemala Highlands
Quiché Department, Guatemala ⓘ
linked to:
Quiché Department
|
| spokenBy | Ixil people ⓘ |
| spokenInCountry | Guatemala ⓘ |
| spokenInRegion | Guatemalan highlands ⓘ |
| subfamily |
Greater Mamean
ⓘ
linked to:
Quichean–Mamean
|
| subgroup | Ixilan ⓘ |
| taughtIn | bilingual intercultural education programs in Guatemala ⓘ |
| usedAs | home language in Ixil communities ⓘ |
| usedIn |
local community radio
ⓘ
traditional oral literature ⓘ |
| 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: Ixil Description of subject: Ixil is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Ixil people in the highlands of Guatemala.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ixil
linked to: Ixil
linked to: Ixil
linked to: Ixil
subject linked to:
western Guatemala
linked to: Ixil
linked to: Ixil
linked to: Ixil
subject linked to:
Ixhil (variant spelling)
linked to: Ixil
linked to: Ixil
linked to: Ixil
linked to: Ixil
linked to: Ixil