Patamona language
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The Patamona language is an indigenous Cariban language spoken by the Patamona people of the Guiana Highlands in Guyana and northern Brazil.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Patamona language canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1872693 — 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: Patamona language Context triple: [Carib languages, hasNotableLanguage, Patamona language]
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A.
Hoanya language
The Hoanya language is an extinct Austronesian language once spoken by the Hoanya people of western Taiwan and classified among the indigenous Formosan languages.
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B.
Pamona language
The Pamona language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Pamona people of central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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C.
Bambam language
The Bambam language is an Austronesian language spoken in parts of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, known for its place within the region’s diverse indigenous linguistic landscape.
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D.
Lamaholot language
The Lamaholot language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in eastern Flores and nearby islands in Indonesia, known for its numerous dialects and complex verbal morphology.
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E.
Logba language
The Logba language is a Niger-Congo language spoken by the Logba people of southeastern Ghana.
- 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: Patamona language Target entity description: The Patamona language is an indigenous Cariban language spoken by the Patamona people of the Guiana Highlands in Guyana and northern Brazil.
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A.
Hoanya language
The Hoanya language is an extinct Austronesian language once spoken by the Hoanya people of western Taiwan and classified among the indigenous Formosan languages.
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B.
Pamona language
The Pamona language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Pamona people of central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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C.
Bambam language
The Bambam language is an Austronesian language spoken in parts of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, known for its place within the region’s diverse indigenous linguistic landscape.
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D.
Lamaholot language
The Lamaholot language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in eastern Flores and nearby islands in Indonesia, known for its numerous dialects and complex verbal morphology.
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E.
Logba language
The Logba language is a Niger-Congo language spoken by the Logba people of southeastern Ghana.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Cariban language
ⓘ
indigenous language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Akawaio-Patamona (when grouped)
ⓘ
Kapon ⓘ Kapong ⓘ |
| basicWordOrder | SOV ⓘ |
| classification | Northern Cariban subgroup (often classified) ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Akawaio language
ⓘ
Ingarikó language ⓘ |
| continent | South America ⓘ |
| country |
Brazil
ⓘ
Guyana ⓘ
linked to:
British Guiana
|
| ethnicGroup | Patamona people ⓘ |
| family |
Cariban
ⓘ
linked to:
Carib
|
| glottocode | pata1250 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Patamona ⓘ |
| hasDialects | regional varieties in Guyana ⓘ |
| hasMorphology |
person marking on verbs
ⓘ
rich verbal morphology ⓘ |
| hasNasalVowels | true ⓘ |
| hasOralVowels | true ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
approximants
ⓘ
contrast between voiced and voiceless stops ⓘ nasal consonants ⓘ |
| hasTone | false ⓘ |
| indigenousTo |
Guiana Shield region
ⓘ
linked to:
Guiana Shield
|
| ISO639-3 | pbc ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Cariban languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Carib languages
|
| languageFamilyBranch | Venezuelan branch of Cariban ⓘ |
| languageStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| region | Guiana Highlands ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Guyana
ⓘ
linked to:
British Guiana
northern Brazil ⓘ |
| subjectTo |
language shift to English in Guyana
ⓘ
language shift to Portuguese in Brazil ⓘ |
| typology | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| usedAlongside |
English
ⓘ
Portuguese ⓘ
linked to:
Portuguese language
|
| usedFor | daily communication within Patamona communities ⓘ |
| usedIn |
local trade and interaction among Patamona communities
ⓘ
ritual practices ⓘ traditional oral narratives ⓘ |
| 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: Patamona language Description of subject: The Patamona language is an indigenous Cariban language spoken by the Patamona people of the Guiana Highlands in Guyana and northern Brazil.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.