Chicomuceltec
E311806
Chicomuceltec was an extinct Mayan language once spoken in parts of Chiapas, Mexico, closely related to Huastec and known from limited historical documentation.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Chicomuceltec canonical | 6 |
| Motozintlec | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2944150 — 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: Chicomuceltec Context triple: [Huastec, closelyRelatedTo, Chicomuceltec]
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A.
Centzon Huitznahua
Centzon Huitznahua are a group of four hundred southern star deities in Aztec mythology who are known as the hostile brothers and adversaries of the god Huitzilopochtli.
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B.
Akatek
Akatek is a Mayan language spoken primarily by indigenous communities in the highlands of Guatemala.
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C.
Muspilli
Muspilli is an Old High German eschatological poem that vividly depicts the Last Judgment and the end of the world.
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D.
Ixcatec
Ixcatec is an indigenous Oto-Manguean language of Mexico spoken by a very small and endangered community in Oaxaca.
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E.
Tepanec
The Tepanec were a powerful Nahua-speaking people of central Mexico who dominated the Valley of Mexico before being defeated by the Aztec-led Triple Alliance in the 15th century.
- 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: Chicomuceltec Target entity description: Chicomuceltec was an extinct Mayan language once spoken in parts of Chiapas, Mexico, closely related to Huastec and known from limited historical documentation.
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A.
Centzon Huitznahua
Centzon Huitznahua are a group of four hundred southern star deities in Aztec mythology who are known as the hostile brothers and adversaries of the god Huitzilopochtli.
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B.
Akatek
Akatek is a Mayan language spoken primarily by indigenous communities in the highlands of Guatemala.
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C.
Muspilli
Muspilli is an Old High German eschatological poem that vividly depicts the Last Judgment and the end of the world.
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D.
Ixcatec
Ixcatec is an indigenous Oto-Manguean language of Mexico spoken by a very small and endangered community in Oaxaca.
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E.
Tepanec
The Tepanec were a powerful Nahua-speaking people of central Mexico who dominated the Valley of Mexico before being defeated by the Aztec-led Triple Alliance in the 15th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mayan language
ⓘ
extinct language ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Chicomucelteko
ⓘ
Cotoque ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Huastecan subgroup of Mayan ⓘ |
| classificationAuthority |
Glottolog
ⓘ
ISO 639-3 ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo | Huastec language ⓘ |
| country | Mexico ⓘ |
| documentationStatus | poorly documented ⓘ |
| documentationType |
historical wordlists
ⓘ
limited colonial-era records ⓘ |
| ethnolinguisticRegion | indigenous communities of Chiapas ⓘ |
| extinctionStatus | no native speakers remaining ⓘ |
| glottocode | chic1271 ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticFeature |
Mayan lexical roots
ⓘ
Mayan-type verb morphology ⓘ complex verbal inflection ⓘ ergative alignment ⓘ |
| historicalEra | colonial period ⓘ |
| iso639-3Code | cob ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Huastecan ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Mayan languages ⓘ |
| languageStatus | no longer spoken as a community language ⓘ |
| partOf | Mesoamerican linguistic area ⓘ |
| region |
Mesoamerica
ⓘ
southern Mexico ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Chiapas
ⓘ
Mexico ⓘ |
| status | extinct ⓘ |
| subfamily |
Huastecan branch
ⓘ
linked to:
Huastec
|
| 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: Chicomuceltec Description of subject: Chicomuceltec was an extinct Mayan language once spoken in parts of Chiapas, Mexico, closely related to Huastec and known from limited historical documentation.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.