Trique
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Trique is an indigenous Mesoamerican language spoken in Oaxaca, Mexico, known for its complex tonal system and belonging to the Oto-Manguean language family.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Trique canonical | 8 |
| Triqui | 6 |
| Triqui de Copala | 2 |
| Copala Triqui | 1 |
| Trique huipil | 1 |
| Triqui autonomy project | 1 |
| Triqui de Itunyoso | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1728501 — 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: Trique Context triple: [Oto-Manguean languages, hasMemberLanguage, Trique]
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A.
Trife
Trife is a rapper best known as a member of the Brooklyn hip hop collective Junior M.A.F.I.A.
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B.
TriG
TriG is a serialization format for RDF that extends Turtle to support the representation of named graphs and datasets.
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C.
Tromp
Tromp is a Dutch surname most famously associated with the 17th-century admiral Cornelis Tromp and his naval family.
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D.
Tijarafe
Tijarafe is a small rural municipality on the northwest coast of the Canary Island of La Palma, known for its dramatic cliffs, traditional agriculture, and scenic Atlantic views.
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E.
Triad
Triad is a common shorthand name for the Piedmont Triad, a metropolitan region in North Carolina centered around the cities of Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and High Point.
- 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: Trique Target entity description: Trique is an indigenous Mesoamerican language spoken in Oaxaca, Mexico, known for its complex tonal system and belonging to the Oto-Manguean language family.
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A.
Trife
Trife is a rapper best known as a member of the Brooklyn hip hop collective Junior M.A.F.I.A.
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B.
TriG
TriG is a serialization format for RDF that extends Turtle to support the representation of named graphs and datasets.
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C.
Tromp
Tromp is a Dutch surname most famously associated with the 17th-century admiral Cornelis Tromp and his naval family.
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D.
Tijarafe
Tijarafe is a small rural municipality on the northwest coast of the Canary Island of La Palma, known for its dramatic cliffs, traditional agriculture, and scenic Atlantic views.
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E.
Triad
Triad is a common shorthand name for the Piedmont Triad, a metropolitan region in North Carolina centered around the cities of Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and High Point.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mesoamerican language
ⓘ
Oto-Manguean language ⓘ endangered language ⓘ indigenous language ⓘ tonal language ⓘ |
| ethnicGroupAssociated |
Trique people
ⓘ
linked to:
Triqui people
|
| hasAlternativeName |
Trique language
ⓘ
linked to:
Triqui language
Triqui ⓘ
linked to:
Trique
Triqui language ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Chicahuaxtla Trique
ⓘ
linked to:
Chicahuaxtla Triqui
Copala Trique ⓘ Itunyoso Trique ⓘ San Andrés Chicahuaxtla Trique ⓘ
linked to:
Chicahuaxtla Triqui
San Juan Copala Trique ⓘ Santo Domingo del Estado Trique ⓘ |
| hasLanguageCodeISO639-3 |
trc (Copala Trique)
ⓘ
trq (Itunyoso Trique) ⓘ trs (Chicahuaxtla Trique) ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticArea | Mesoamerican linguistic area ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType |
fusional morphology elements
ⓘ
morphologically complex ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contour tones
ⓘ
contrastive tone ⓘ laryngealization contrasts ⓘ multiple level tones ⓘ |
| hasRegion |
Itunyoso
ⓘ
Putla Villa de Guerrero municipality ⓘ San Andrés Chicahuaxtla ⓘ San Juan Copala ⓘ Santo Domingo del Estado ⓘ |
| hasStatus |
threatened
ⓘ
vulnerable ⓘ |
| hasTonalSystem | complex tone system ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder |
VOS
ⓘ
VSO ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem |
Latin script
ⓘ
linked to:
Latin alphabet
|
| languageBranch | Mixtecan ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Oto-Manguean
ⓘ
linked to:
Oto-Manguean languages
|
| locatedInContinent | North America ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | indigenous language of Mexico ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Mexico
ⓘ
Oaxaca ⓘ Sierra Mixteca region ⓘ
linked to:
Sierra Madre de Oaxaca region
|
| subclassOf |
Mixtecan language
ⓘ
linked to:
Mixtec languages
|
| subjectOf |
phonological research on tone
ⓘ
typological studies of tonal complexity ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Trique people
ⓘ
linked to:
Triqui people
|
| usedIn |
local radio broadcasting
ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ traditional rituals ⓘ |
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: Trique Description of subject: Trique is an indigenous Mesoamerican language spoken in Oaxaca, Mexico, known for its complex tonal system and belonging to the Oto-Manguean language family.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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