Jek language
E416676
The Jek language is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by the Jek people in parts of the Caucasus region, primarily in Azerbaijan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jek language canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4162739 — 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: Jek language Context triple: [Northeast Caucasian languages, hasMember, Jek language]
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A.
Kioko language
The Kioko language is an Austronesian language of the Muna–Buton subgroup spoken by a small community in southeastern Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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B.
Kitanemuk language
The Kitanemuk language is an extinct Uto-Aztecan language once spoken by the Kitanemuk people of Southern California.
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C.
Piipaash language
The Piipaash language is a Native American language of the Yuman family traditionally spoken by the Piipaash (Maricopa) people of the lower Colorado River region in the southwestern United States.
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D.
Avikam language
The Avikam language is a Kwa language spoken by the Avikam people of southern Côte d'Ivoire.
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E.
Chimariko language
The Chimariko language is an extinct Native American language once spoken in northwestern California, often classified within the proposed Hokan language family.
- 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: Jek language Target entity description: The Jek language is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by the Jek people in parts of the Caucasus region, primarily in Azerbaijan.
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A.
Kioko language
The Kioko language is an Austronesian language of the Muna–Buton subgroup spoken by a small community in southeastern Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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B.
Kitanemuk language
The Kitanemuk language is an extinct Uto-Aztecan language once spoken by the Kitanemuk people of Southern California.
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C.
Piipaash language
The Piipaash language is a Native American language of the Yuman family traditionally spoken by the Piipaash (Maricopa) people of the lower Colorado River region in the southwestern United States.
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D.
Avikam language
The Avikam language is a Kwa language spoken by the Avikam people of southern Côte d'Ivoire.
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E.
Chimariko language
The Chimariko language is an extinct Native American language once spoken in northwestern California, often classified within the proposed Hokan language family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Northeast Caucasian language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| basicWordOrder | SOV ⓘ |
| belongsToMacroArea | Western Asia ⓘ |
| country | Azerbaijan ⓘ |
| documentationLevel | poorly documented ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | severely endangered ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jek people ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Dzhek
ⓘ
Jek language of Azerbaijan ⓘ Jekki ⓘ |
| hasConsonantPhonemes | rich inventory ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
Haput dialect
ⓘ
Jek proper ⓘ Jekhi dialect ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
ergative alignment
ⓘ
noun classes or genders ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | dzhe1238 ⓘ |
| hasMorphology | rich case system ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
ejective consonants
ⓘ
pharyngeal consonants ⓘ uvular consonants ⓘ |
| hasVowelPhonemes | relatively small inventory ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | jek ⓘ |
| languageBranch |
Lezgic languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Lezgic
|
| languageFamily | Northeast Caucasian languages ⓘ |
| languageShiftTowards |
Azerbaijani
ⓘ
Russian ⓘ |
| linguisticClassification |
Nakh-Daghestanian language family
ⓘ
linked to:
Northeast Caucasian languages
|
| neighboringLanguages |
Khinalug
ⓘ
Kryts ⓘ Lezgian ⓘ |
| numberOfSpeakersEstimate | a few hundred ⓘ |
| primarySettlement | Jek village ⓘ |
| region |
Quba District
ⓘ
linked to:
Quba
|
| spokenBy | several mountain villages communities ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Azerbaijan
ⓘ
Caucasus region ⓘ |
| statusInAzerbaijan | minority language ⓘ |
| transmission | declining intergenerational transmission ⓘ |
| typology | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| UNESCOStatus | definitely or severely endangered ⓘ |
| usedIn | oral communication ⓘ |
| usedLessIn | formal education ⓘ |
| 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: Jek language Description of subject: The Jek language is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by the Jek people in parts of the Caucasus region, primarily in Azerbaijan.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.