Ter Sami language
E376428
Ter Sami is a critically endangered Uralic language traditionally spoken by the Ter Sami people on the Kola Peninsula in northwestern Russia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ter Sami language canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3648557 — 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: Ter Sami language Context triple: [Finno-Ugric languages, hasMember, Ter Sami language]
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A.
Sama language
The Sama language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Sama-Bajau maritime communities of the southern Philippines and nearby regions of Southeast Asia.
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B.
Murle language
The Murle language is an Eastern Sudanic language spoken primarily by the Murle people of South Sudan.
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C.
Gurma language
Gurma language is a Gur language spoken primarily in parts of Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin, and neighboring West African countries.
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D.
Semai language
The Semai language is an Austroasiatic language spoken by the Semai people, an indigenous Orang Asli group in Peninsular Malaysia.
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E.
Tamyen language
The Tamyen language is an extinct Ohlone (Costanoan) Native American language once spoken in the Santa Clara Valley region of California.
- 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: Ter Sami language Target entity description: Ter Sami is a critically endangered Uralic language traditionally spoken by the Ter Sami people on the Kola Peninsula in northwestern Russia.
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A.
Sama language
The Sama language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Sama-Bajau maritime communities of the southern Philippines and nearby regions of Southeast Asia.
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B.
Murle language
The Murle language is an Eastern Sudanic language spoken primarily by the Murle people of South Sudan.
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C.
Gurma language
Gurma language is a Gur language spoken primarily in parts of Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin, and neighboring West African countries.
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D.
Semai language
The Semai language is an Austroasiatic language spoken by the Semai people, an indigenous Orang Asli group in Peninsular Malaysia.
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E.
Tamyen language
The Tamyen language is an extinct Ohlone (Costanoan) Native American language once spoken in the Santa Clara Valley region of California.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Samic language
ⓘ
Uralic language ⓘ critically endangered language ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Finno-Ugric group (traditional classification) ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Kildin Sami language
ⓘ
Skolt Sami language ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Russia ⓘ |
| endangermentLevel | nearly extinct ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Ter Sami ⓘ |
| family |
Uralic language family
ⓘ
linked to:
Uralic languages
|
| hasAlternativeName |
Ter Lapp
ⓘ
Ter Lappish ⓘ Ter Saami ⓘ
linked to:
Ter Sámi
|
| hasAncestor |
Proto-Samic language
ⓘ
linked to:
Proto-Samic
Proto-Uralic language ⓘ |
| hasConsonantFeature | palatalization contrast ⓘ |
| hasGrammaticalCategory |
grammatical cases
ⓘ
grammatical number ⓘ grammatical person ⓘ mood ⓘ tense ⓘ voice ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
agglutinative morphology
ⓘ
rich case system ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature | vowel harmony ⓘ |
| hasVowelFeature | long and short vowel distinction ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder |
SOV-dominant
ⓘ
flexible word order ⓘ |
| isEndangeredDueTo |
assimilation policies in the Soviet era
ⓘ
language shift to Russian ⓘ |
| isMinorityLanguageIn | Russia ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | sjt ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Eastern Sami ⓘ |
| languageContactWith |
Kildin Sami language
ⓘ
Northern Russian dialects ⓘ Russian language ⓘ |
| numberOfSpeakers | very few speakers ⓘ |
| region | Kola Peninsula ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
eastern Kola Peninsula
ⓘ
linked to:
northeastern Kola Peninsula
northwestern Russia ⓘ |
| status | critically endangered ⓘ |
| subfamily |
Sami languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Sámi languages
|
| traditionalSpeakers |
Ter Sami people
ⓘ
linked to:
Sami people
|
| UNESCOStatus | critically endangered ⓘ |
| usedBy | small elderly population ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Cyrillic script
ⓘ
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: Ter Sami language Description of subject: Ter Sami is a critically endangered Uralic language traditionally spoken by the Ter Sami people on the Kola Peninsula in northwestern Russia.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.