Opata language
E313517
The Opata language is an extinct Uto-Aztecan language once spoken by the Opata people of northern Mexico, particularly in the present-day state of Sonora.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Opata language canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2957285 — 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: Opata language Context triple: [Taracahitic, hasMember, Opata language]
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A.
Patamona language
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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B.
Kapingamarangi language
The Kapingamarangi language is a Polynesian outlier language spoken primarily on Kapingamarangi Atoll in the Federated States of Micronesia.
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C.
Apalaí language
The Apalaí language is an indigenous Cariban language spoken by the Apalaí people of the Amazon region in northern Brazil.
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D.
Logba language
The Logba language is a Niger-Congo language spoken by the Logba people of southeastern Ghana.
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E.
Banda-Linda language
The Banda-Linda language is a Banda language spoken by the Banda-Linda people of the Central African Republic.
- 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: Opata language Target entity description: The Opata language is an extinct Uto-Aztecan language once spoken by the Opata people of northern Mexico, particularly in the present-day state of Sonora.
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A.
Patamona language
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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B.
Kapingamarangi language
The Kapingamarangi language is a Polynesian outlier language spoken primarily on Kapingamarangi Atoll in the Federated States of Micronesia.
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C.
Apalaí language
The Apalaí language is an indigenous Cariban language spoken by the Apalaí people of the Amazon region in northern Brazil.
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D.
Logba language
The Logba language is a Niger-Congo language spoken by the Logba people of southeastern Ghana.
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E.
Banda-Linda language
The Banda-Linda language is a Banda language spoken by the Banda-Linda people of the Central African Republic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Uto-Aztecan language
ⓘ
extinct language ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Opata people ⓘ |
| belongsToBranch | Cahitan–Opata branch ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Mayo language
ⓘ
Tarahumara language ⓘ Yaqui language ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | Mexico ⓘ |
| documentedBy | Spanish missionaries ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Opata people ⓘ |
| extinctionCause | language shift to Spanish ⓘ |
| extinctionPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| glottocode | opat1246 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Opata ⓘ |
| governedBy | Spanish colonial language policies ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Eudeve-Opata
ⓘ
linked to:
Eudeve
Teguima language ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Extinct languages of North America
ⓘ
Indigenous languages of Mexico ⓘ Uto-Aztecan languages ⓘ
linked to:
Uto-Aztecan
|
| hasDialect |
Eudeve
ⓘ
Jova ⓘ Teguima ⓘ |
| hasEndonym |
Eudeve
ⓘ
Jova ⓘ Teguima ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticFeature |
SOV basic word order
ⓘ
agglutinative morphology ⓘ |
| historicalRegion |
Río Sonora valley
ⓘ
linked to:
Yaqui Valley
Sierra Madre Occidental foothills ⓘ |
| historicalUse |
local administration in colonial period
ⓘ
religious texts translation ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | opt ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Indigenous languages of Mexico
ⓘ
Indigenous languages of the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico ⓘ |
| languageCodeStandard | ISO 639-3 ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Uto-Aztecan languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Uto-Aztecan
|
| languageOf | Opata people ⓘ |
| macroArea | Mesoamerica ⓘ |
| region | north-central Sonora ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Sonora
ⓘ
northern Mexico ⓘ |
| status | extinct ⓘ |
| subfamily |
Southern Uto-Aztecan languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Southern Uto-Aztecan
|
| usedIn | Opata traditional culture ⓘ |
| 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: Opata language Description of subject: The Opata language is an extinct Uto-Aztecan language once spoken by the Opata people of northern Mexico, particularly in the present-day state of Sonora.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.