Selkup language
E365412
The Selkup language is a critically endangered Uralic (Samoyedic) language spoken by the indigenous Selkup people of western Siberia in Russia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Selkup language canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3511586 — 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: Selkup language Context triple: [Selkup, language, Selkup language]
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A.
Enets language
Enets language is a critically endangered Samoyedic language of the Uralic family spoken by a small Indigenous community in northern Siberia, Russia.
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B.
Nenets language
The Nenets language is a Uralic Samoyedic language spoken by the Nenets people of northern Arctic Russia.
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C.
Khanty language
The Khanty language is a Uralic language spoken by the Khanty people of western Siberia, closely related to Mansi and traditionally used in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug of Russia.
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D.
Ulch language
The Ulch language is a critically endangered Tungusic language spoken by the Ulch people in the Russian Far East, primarily along the lower Amur River.
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E.
Sakha language
The Sakha language is a Turkic language spoken primarily by the Sakha (Yakut) people in northeastern Siberia, where it serves as a major regional and cultural language.
- 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: Selkup language Target entity description: The Selkup language is a critically endangered Uralic (Samoyedic) language spoken by the indigenous Selkup people of western Siberia in Russia.
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A.
Enets language
Enets language is a critically endangered Samoyedic language of the Uralic family spoken by a small Indigenous community in northern Siberia, Russia.
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B.
Nenets language
The Nenets language is a Uralic Samoyedic language spoken by the Nenets people of northern Arctic Russia.
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C.
Khanty language
The Khanty language is a Uralic language spoken by the Khanty people of western Siberia, closely related to Mansi and traditionally used in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug of Russia.
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D.
Ulch language
The Ulch language is a critically endangered Tungusic language spoken by the Ulch people in the Russian Far East, primarily along the lower Amur River.
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E.
Sakha language
The Sakha language is a Turkic language spoken primarily by the Sakha (Yakut) people in northeastern Siberia, where it serves as a major regional and cultural language.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Samoyedic language
ⓘ
Uralic language ⓘ critically endangered language ⓘ minority language ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Enets language
ⓘ
Nenets language ⓘ Nganasan language ⓘ |
| country | Russia ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus | critically endangered ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Selkup people
ⓘ
linked to:
Selkup
|
| glottologCode | selk1253 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Ostyak-Samoyed
ⓘ
linked to:
Paleosiberian languages
Selkupic ⓘ
linked to:
Selkup
|
| hasCaseSystem | rich case system ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Central Selkup
ⓘ
linked to:
Selkup
Northern Selkup ⓘ
linked to:
Selkup
Southern Selkup ⓘ
linked to:
Selkup
|
| hasGrammaticalCategory |
case
ⓘ
mood ⓘ number ⓘ person ⓘ tense ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticTypology |
dependent-marking
ⓘ
suffixing ⓘ |
| hasMorphologyType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasNumberCategory |
plural
ⓘ
singular ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature | vowel harmony ⓘ |
| hasStressPattern | variable stress ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem | Cyrillic script ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | sel ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Samoyedic branch ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Uralic language family
ⓘ
linked to:
Uralic languages
|
| primaryWordOrder | SOV ⓘ |
| region |
Ob River basin
ⓘ
Taz River basin ⓘ Yenisei River region ⓘ
linked to:
Yenisei River valley
|
| spokenIn |
Krasnoyarsk Krai
ⓘ
linked to:
Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia
Russian Federation ⓘ
linked to:
Russia
Tomsk Oblast ⓘ Western Siberia ⓘ Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug ⓘ |
| subclassOf | Northern Samoyedic language ⓘ |
| subjectOf | language revitalization efforts ⓘ |
| usedBy | indigenous Selkup communities ⓘ |
| usedIn |
ethnographic documentation
ⓘ
oral storytelling ⓘ traditional folklore ⓘ |
| writingSystemIntroducedIn | 20th century ⓘ |
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: Selkup language Description of subject: The Selkup language is a critically endangered Uralic (Samoyedic) language spoken by the indigenous Selkup people of western Siberia in Russia.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.