Akateko
E411186
Akateko is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Akateko people in the western highlands of Guatemala and parts of southern Mexico.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4069629 — 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: Akateko Context triple: [Mam, hasNeighboringLanguage, Akateko]
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A.
Aku Uka
Aku Uka is the paramount traditional monarch of the Jukun people, historically associated with the ancient Kwararafa kingdom in present-day Taraba State, Nigeria.
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B.
Agutaynen
Agutaynen is an Austronesian language spoken by the Agutaynen people in the Philippines, primarily in the province of Palawan.
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C.
Aku Aku
Aku Aku is a sentient wooden mask who guides and protects Crash Bandicoot throughout the Crash Bandicoot video game series.
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D.
Akoko
Akoko is a prominent Yoruba sub-ethnic group in southwestern Nigeria, primarily inhabiting the northeastern part of Ondo State and parts of neighboring states.
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E.
Akpabuyo
Akpabuyo is a coastal local government area in southeastern Nigeria known for its location near Calabar in Cross River State.
- 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: Akateko Target entity description: Akateko is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Akateko people in the western highlands of Guatemala and parts of southern Mexico.
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A.
Aku Uka
Aku Uka is the paramount traditional monarch of the Jukun people, historically associated with the ancient Kwararafa kingdom in present-day Taraba State, Nigeria.
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B.
Agutaynen
Agutaynen is an Austronesian language spoken by the Agutaynen people in the Philippines, primarily in the province of Palawan.
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C.
Aku Aku
Aku Aku is a sentient wooden mask who guides and protects Crash Bandicoot throughout the Crash Bandicoot video game series.
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D.
Akoko
Akoko is a prominent Yoruba sub-ethnic group in southwestern Nigeria, primarily inhabiting the northeastern part of Ondo State and parts of neighboring states.
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E.
Akpabuyo
Akpabuyo is a coastal local government area in southeastern Nigeria known for its location near Calabar in Cross River State.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mayan language
ⓘ
indigenous language of the Americas ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Qʼanjobʼal–Jakaltek–Akateko subgroup ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Jakaltek
ⓘ
Qʼanjobʼal ⓘ |
| country |
Guatemala
ⓘ
Mexico ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Akateko people ⓘ |
| family |
Mayan language family
ⓘ
linked to:
Mayan languages
|
| hasAlternativeName |
Acateco
ⓘ
linked to:
Akatek
Kanjobal de Acatán ⓘ Qyool ⓘ
linked to:
Qyol Mam
|
| hasBasicWordOrder |
VOS
ⓘ
VSO ⓘ |
| hasDomain |
home and community use
ⓘ
local radio broadcasting ⓘ local religious practice ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | acat1239 ⓘ |
| hasGlottologName | Akateko ⓘ |
| hasISO6393Code | knj ⓘ |
| hasLanguageBranch |
Qʼanjobʼalan
ⓘ
linked to:
Qʼanjobʼal
|
| hasMorphologicalType | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive tone
ⓘ
glottalized consonants ⓘ |
| hasRegulatoryBody | Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala ⓘ |
| hasStandardizedOrthography | yes ⓘ |
| hasTypologicalFeature |
ergative alignment
ⓘ
head-marking morphology ⓘ rich aspectual system ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Mayan ⓘ |
| languageStatus |
endangered language
ⓘ
minority language ⓘ |
| macroArea | North America ⓘ |
| partOfLinguisticArea |
Mayan linguistic area
ⓘ
linked to:
Mesoamerican linguistic area
|
| region | Mesoamerica ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Guatemala
ⓘ
Mexico ⓘ |
| spokenInRegion |
southern Mexico
ⓘ
western highlands of Guatemala ⓘ |
| subfamily | Qʼanjobʼalan branch ⓘ |
| usedBy | Akateko community ⓘ |
| usedIn |
interpersonal communication
ⓘ
oral literature ⓘ traditional ceremonies ⓘ |
| usedInEducation | bilingual education programs in Guatemala ⓘ |
| writingDirection | left-to-right ⓘ |
| 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: Akateko Description of subject: Akateko is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Akateko people in the western highlands of Guatemala and parts of southern Mexico.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Akateko