Triqui language
E225987
The Triqui language is an Oto-Manguean indigenous language of southern Mexico, spoken primarily by the Triqui people of Oaxaca.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Triqui language canonical | 3 |
| Trique language | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2032437 — 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: Triqui language Context triple: [State of Oaxaca, hasIndigenousLanguages, Triqui language]
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A.
Pichi language
Pichi is an English-based creole language spoken primarily in Equatorial Guinea, where it serves as a major lingua franca and has significantly shaped local varieties of Spanish.
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B.
Puquina language
The Puquina language is an extinct and poorly documented indigenous tongue once spoken in the central Andes, believed to have been associated with pre-Inca and possibly Tiwanaku-era civilizations.
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C.
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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D.
Tregami language
The Tregami language is a lesser-known Indo-Iranian language spoken by the Tregami people in a small mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan.
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E.
Tujia language
The Tujia language is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken primarily by the Tujia ethnic group in parts of central China, notably in mountainous areas of Hubei, Hunan, and neighboring provinces.
- 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: Triqui language Target entity description: The Triqui language is an Oto-Manguean indigenous language of southern Mexico, spoken primarily by the Triqui people of Oaxaca.
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A.
Pichi language
Pichi is an English-based creole language spoken primarily in Equatorial Guinea, where it serves as a major lingua franca and has significantly shaped local varieties of Spanish.
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B.
Puquina language
The Puquina language is an extinct and poorly documented indigenous tongue once spoken in the central Andes, believed to have been associated with pre-Inca and possibly Tiwanaku-era civilizations.
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C.
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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D.
Tregami language
The Tregami language is a lesser-known Indo-Iranian language spoken by the Tregami people in a small mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan.
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E.
Tujia language
The Tujia language is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken primarily by the Tujia ethnic group in parts of central China, notably in mountainous areas of Hubei, Hunan, and neighboring provinces.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mesoamerican language
ⓘ
Oto-Manguean language ⓘ indigenous language ⓘ |
| belongsTo |
indigenous languages of Mexico
ⓘ
indigenous languages of Oaxaca ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Cuicatec language
ⓘ
Mixtec languages ⓘ |
| country | Mexico ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Triqui people ⓘ |
| glottocode | triq1238 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Triki
ⓘ
Trique ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Chicahuaxtla Triqui
ⓘ
Copala Triqui ⓘ
linked to:
Trique
Itunyoso Triqui ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
VSO word order
ⓘ
agglutinative morphology ⓘ complex tonal system ⓘ head-marking ⓘ nasalization ⓘ phonemic tone ⓘ tone language ⓘ verb–initial word order ⓘ |
| hasISO639-3Code |
trc
ⓘ
trq ⓘ trs ⓘ |
| hasSpeakerPopulation | tens of thousands ⓘ |
| isEndangered | true ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Oto-Manguean language area
ⓘ
linked to:
Oto-Manguean languages
|
| languageFamily | Oto-Manguean languages ⓘ |
| region |
Sierra Mixteca
ⓘ
linked to:
Sierra Madre de Oaxaca region
western Oaxaca ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Triqui people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Mexico
ⓘ
Oaxaca ⓘ
linked to:
Oaxaca state
|
| status | vulnerable ⓘ |
| subfamily | Mixtecan branch ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
linguistic fieldwork
ⓘ
phonological studies ⓘ syntactic studies ⓘ tone system research ⓘ |
| usedIn |
everyday communication in Triqui communities
ⓘ
ritual speech ⓘ 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: Triqui language Description of subject: The Triqui language is an Oto-Manguean indigenous language of southern Mexico, spoken primarily by the Triqui people of Oaxaca.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Triqui language