Silbo Gomero
E207302
Silbo Gomero is a traditional whistled language from the Canary Island of La Gomera, used to communicate across its deep ravines and valleys.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Silbo Gomero canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1862269 — 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: Silbo Gomero Context triple: [La Gomera, knownFor, Silbo Gomero]
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A.
Kunigami language
The Kunigami language is a Northern Ryukyuan language spoken in the northern part of Okinawa Island, Japan, and is considered distinct from standard Japanese and severely endangered.
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B.
Sarigan
Sarigan is a small, uninhabited volcanic island in the Northern Mariana Islands known for its active stratovolcano and protected wildlife habitats.
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C.
Nuʻuuli
Nuʻuuli is a village and commercial center on the island of Tutuila in American Samoa.
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D.
Guane
Guane is a small town and municipality in western Cuba known for its rural character and tobacco-growing traditions.
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E.
Oshiwambo
Oshiwambo is a Bantu language (or cluster of closely related dialects) widely spoken by the Ovambo people in northern Namibia and southern Angola.
- 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: Silbo Gomero Target entity description: Silbo Gomero is a traditional whistled language from the Canary Island of La Gomera, used to communicate across its deep ravines and valleys.
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A.
Kunigami language
The Kunigami language is a Northern Ryukyuan language spoken in the northern part of Okinawa Island, Japan, and is considered distinct from standard Japanese and severely endangered.
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B.
Sarigan
Sarigan is a small, uninhabited volcanic island in the Northern Mariana Islands known for its active stratovolcano and protected wildlife habitats.
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C.
Nuʻuuli
Nuʻuuli is a village and commercial center on the island of Tutuila in American Samoa.
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D.
Guane
Guane is a small town and municipality in western Cuba known for its rural character and tobacco-growing traditions.
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E.
Oshiwambo
Oshiwambo is a Bantu language (or cluster of closely related dialects) widely spoken by the Ovambo people in northern Namibia and southern Angola.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
intangible cultural heritage
ⓘ
language ⓘ whistled language ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Castilian Spanish phonology
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Spanish language ⓘ
linked to:
Spanish
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| communicationMedium | whistling ⓘ |
| country | Spain ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance |
part of Canary Islands heritage
ⓘ
symbol of Gomeran identity ⓘ |
| distinctFrom |
Morse code
ⓘ
sign language ⓘ spoken Spanish ⓘ |
| feature |
adapted to mountainous terrain
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can be heard over several kilometers ⓘ reduction of spoken phonemes to whistled tones ⓘ replicates syllabic structure of Spanish ⓘ uses pitch and duration contrasts ⓘ |
| historicalUse |
communication between farmers
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communication between shepherds ⓘ transmission of messages across difficult terrain ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Romance-based whistled register ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Atlantic Ocean region
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Canary Islands ⓘ La Gomera ⓘ |
| primaryFunction | long-distance communication ⓘ |
| recognizedBy | UNESCO ⓘ |
| region | La Gomera ⓘ |
| revitalizationEffort |
cultural promotion by Canary Islands government
ⓘ
educational programs in La Gomera ⓘ |
| similarTo |
other whistled speech systems
ⓘ
whistled Mazatec ⓘ whistled Turkish ⓘ |
| studiedIn |
anthropology
ⓘ
cognitive science ⓘ linguistics ⓘ |
| taughtAs |
compulsory subject in La Gomera primary schools
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compulsory subject in La Gomera secondary schools ⓘ |
| taughtIn | schools of La Gomera ⓘ |
| threatStatus | endangered practice ⓘ |
| transmission | oral tradition ⓘ |
| unescoInscriptionYear | 2009 ⓘ |
| unescoStatus | Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Gomerans
ⓘ
inhabitants of La Gomera ⓘ |
| usedFor |
communication across ravines
ⓘ
communication across valleys ⓘ rural communication ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Canary Islands
ⓘ
La Gomera ⓘ |
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: Silbo Gomero Description of subject: Silbo Gomero is a traditional whistled language from the Canary Island of La Gomera, used to communicate across its deep ravines and valleys.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.