Shira Yugur language
E300214
The Shira Yugur language is an endangered Mongolic language spoken by the Yellow Yugur people in Gansu Province, China.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shira Yugur language canonical | 3 |
| Shera Yugur language | 1 |
| Yellow Yugur language | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2786694 — 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: Shira Yugur language Context triple: [Mongolic languages, hasPart, Shira Yugur language]
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A.
Isnag language
The Isnag language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Isnag people in the northern Cordillera region of Luzon in the Philippines.
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B.
Bagirmi language
The Bagirmi language is a Central Sudanic language spoken primarily in Chad by the Bagirmi people, known for its role as a regional lingua franca and its rich oral tradition.
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C.
Tsakhur language
The Tsakhur language is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken primarily by the Tsakhur people in parts of Azerbaijan and Dagestan.
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D.
Luri language
Luri language is a Southwestern Iranian language spoken primarily by the Lur people in western and southwestern Iran.
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E.
Gurma language
Gurma language is a Gur language spoken primarily in parts of Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin, and neighboring West African countries.
- 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: Shira Yugur language Target entity description: The Shira Yugur language is an endangered Mongolic language spoken by the Yellow Yugur people in Gansu Province, China.
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A.
Isnag language
The Isnag language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Isnag people in the northern Cordillera region of Luzon in the Philippines.
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B.
Bagirmi language
The Bagirmi language is a Central Sudanic language spoken primarily in Chad by the Bagirmi people, known for its role as a regional lingua franca and its rich oral tradition.
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C.
Tsakhur language
The Tsakhur language is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken primarily by the Tsakhur people in parts of Azerbaijan and Dagestan.
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D.
Luri language
Luri language is a Southwestern Iranian language spoken primarily by the Lur people in western and southwestern Iran.
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E.
Gurma language
Gurma language is a Gur language spoken primarily in parts of Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin, and neighboring West African countries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mongolic language
ⓘ
endangered language ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Enger
ⓘ
Shera Yugur language ⓘ
linked to:
Shira Yugur language
Yellow Yugur language ⓘ
linked to:
Shira Yugur language
|
| associatedWith | Yellow Yugur culture ⓘ |
| coexistsWith | Eastern Yugur language ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus | severely endangered ⓘ |
| ethnolinguisticGroup | Yugur people ⓘ |
| glottocode | yugh1238 ⓘ |
| hasContactWith |
Mandarin Chinese
ⓘ
Tibetan languages ⓘ
linked to:
Tibetan
Turkic languages ⓘ |
| hasEthnicPopulation | Yellow Yugur people ⓘ |
| hasLexicalBorrowingFrom |
Chinese
ⓘ
Tibetan ⓘ Turkic languages ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalInfluenceFrom | Chinese ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem | no widely used standard orthography ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | yuy ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Mongolic languages ⓘ |
| notMutuallyIntelligibleWith |
Chinese
ⓘ
Standard Mongolian ⓘ
linked to:
Mongolian Cyrillic
|
| region |
Sunan Yugur Autonomous County
ⓘ
northwestern China ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Bonan language
ⓘ
Eastern Yugur language (distantly, as co-ethnic language) ⓘ Monguor language ⓘ
linked to:
Monguor (Tu) language
|
| riskFactor |
language shift to Mandarin Chinese
ⓘ
small speaker population ⓘ |
| scriptHistoricallyUsed | Chinese characters (limited and ad hoc) ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Yellow Yugur people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
China
ⓘ
Gansu Province ⓘ |
| subfamily | Shirongolic ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
fieldwork-based descriptive grammars
ⓘ
lexicographic documentation ⓘ phonological studies ⓘ |
| typologicalFeature |
SOV basic word order
ⓘ
agglutinative morphology ⓘ vowel harmony (partially preserved) ⓘ |
| usedFor | oral communication ⓘ |
| usedIn |
oral narratives
ⓘ
ritual contexts ⓘ traditional songs ⓘ |
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: Shira Yugur language Description of subject: The Shira Yugur language is an endangered Mongolic language spoken by the Yellow Yugur people in Gansu Province, China.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Shira Yugur language
linked to: Shira Yugur language