Terena language
E168156
The Terena language is an Arawakan indigenous language spoken primarily by the Terena people of Brazil’s Mato Grosso do Sul region.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Terena language canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1357304 — 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: Terena language Context triple: [Arawakan languages, hasLanguage, Terena language]
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A.
Apurinã language
The Apurinã language is an indigenous Arawakan language spoken by the Apurinã people of the Brazilian Amazon, known for its complex verbal morphology and endangered status.
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B.
Enawené-Nawé language
The Enawené-Nawé language is an indigenous Arawakan language spoken by the Enawené-Nawé people of the Brazilian Amazon, known for its highly endangered status and rich oral tradition.
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C.
Jarawa language
The Jarawa language is an endangered Ongan language spoken by the indigenous Jarawa people of the Andaman Islands in India.
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D.
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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E.
Moxo language
The Moxo language is an indigenous Arawakan language spoken by the Moxo (Mojo) people of Bolivia’s lowland regions.
- 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: Terena language Target entity description: The Terena language is an Arawakan indigenous language spoken primarily by the Terena people of Brazil’s Mato Grosso do Sul region.
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A.
Apurinã language
The Apurinã language is an indigenous Arawakan language spoken by the Apurinã people of the Brazilian Amazon, known for its complex verbal morphology and endangered status.
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B.
Enawené-Nawé language
The Enawené-Nawé language is an indigenous Arawakan language spoken by the Enawené-Nawé people of the Brazilian Amazon, known for its highly endangered status and rich oral tradition.
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C.
Jarawa language
The Jarawa language is an endangered Ongan language spoken by the indigenous Jarawa people of the Andaman Islands in India.
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D.
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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E.
Moxo language
The Moxo language is an indigenous Arawakan language spoken by the Moxo (Mojo) people of Bolivia’s lowland regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Arawakan language
ⓘ
South American language ⓘ indigenous language ⓘ |
| continent | South America ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Terena people ⓘ |
| family |
Arawakan language family
ⓘ
linked to:
Arawakan languages
|
| hasAlternativeName |
Cachoeirinha
ⓘ
Etelena ⓘ Tereno ⓘ Terêna ⓘ Xaneu ⓘ
linked to:
Xanéu
Xanéu ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
Guana
ⓘ
Kinikinao ⓘ Terena proper ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
nasal vowels ⓘ |
| languageCodeISO639-3 | ter ⓘ |
| languageFamilyBranch | Maipurean ⓘ |
| languageFamilyHigher |
Arawakan
ⓘ
linked to:
Arawakan languages
|
| primaryCountryOfUse | Brazil ⓘ |
| spokenInCountry | Brazil ⓘ |
| spokenInRegion | Mato Grosso do Sul ⓘ |
| subfamily |
Southern Arawakan
ⓘ
linked to:
Upper Orinoco Arawakan
|
| typologicalFeature |
agglutinative morphology
ⓘ
predominantly SOV word order ⓘ |
| usedBy | Terena communities in Mato Grosso do Sul ⓘ |
| usedIn |
local community education in Terena villages
ⓘ
oral storytelling of Terena people ⓘ traditional Terena cultural practices ⓘ |
| 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: Terena language Description of subject: The Terena language is an Arawakan indigenous language spoken primarily by the Terena people of Brazil’s Mato Grosso do Sul region.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.