Makah language
E530450
The Makah language is a critically endangered Southern Wakashan language traditionally spoken by the Makah people of the northwestern Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, USA.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Makah language canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5540396 — 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: Makah language Context triple: [Nootka language, hasNeighboringLanguages, Makah language]
-
A.
Mahikan language
Mahikan language is an Algonquian language historically spoken by the Mahican people of the northeastern United States, particularly in the Hudson River Valley region.
-
B.
Kapingamarangi language
The Kapingamarangi language is a Polynesian outlier language spoken primarily on Kapingamarangi Atoll in the Federated States of Micronesia.
-
C.
Makushi language
The Makushi language is an indigenous Cariban language spoken primarily by the Makushi people in northern Brazil and southern Guyana.
-
D.
Akawaio language
The Akawaio language is an indigenous Cariban language spoken by the Akawaio people of Guyana, Venezuela, and Brazil.
-
E.
Lamaholot language
The Lamaholot language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in eastern Flores and nearby islands in Indonesia, known for its numerous dialects and complex verbal morphology.
- 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: Makah language Target entity description: The Makah language is a critically endangered Southern Wakashan language traditionally spoken by the Makah people of the northwestern Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, USA.
-
A.
Mahikan language
Mahikan language is an Algonquian language historically spoken by the Mahican people of the northeastern United States, particularly in the Hudson River Valley region.
-
B.
Kapingamarangi language
The Kapingamarangi language is a Polynesian outlier language spoken primarily on Kapingamarangi Atoll in the Federated States of Micronesia.
-
C.
Makushi language
The Makushi language is an indigenous Cariban language spoken primarily by the Makushi people in northern Brazil and southern Guyana.
-
D.
Akawaio language
The Akawaio language is an indigenous Cariban language spoken by the Akawaio people of Guyana, Venezuela, and Brazil.
-
E.
Lamaholot language
The Lamaholot language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in eastern Flores and nearby islands in Indonesia, known for its numerous dialects and complex verbal morphology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Southern Wakashan language
ⓘ
indigenous language of North America ⓘ |
| associatedWithOrganization |
Makah Tribe
ⓘ
linked to:
Makah people
|
| closelyRelatedTo |
Ditidaht language
ⓘ
linked to:
Nitinaht language
Nuu-chah-nulth language ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| culturalSignificance |
central to Makah identity
ⓘ
vehicle for transmission of Makah oral history ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus | critically endangered ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Makah people ⓘ |
| glottocode | maka1318 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Makah
ⓘ
Makah Indian language ⓘ |
| hasAncestor |
Proto-Wakashan language
ⓘ
linked to:
Wakashan languages
|
| hasDomain |
ceremonial practices
ⓘ
traditional ecological knowledge ⓘ traditional oral literature ⓘ |
| hasEndonym | qʷi·qʷi·diččaq ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticFeature |
incorporation of nouns into verbs
ⓘ
rich derivational morphology ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature | complex verb morphology ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | polysynthetic ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
ejective consonants ⓘ uvular consonants ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryWordOrderTendency | verb-initial ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | flexible word order ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | myh ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
North American Pacific Coast linguistic area
ⓘ
linked to:
Northwest Coast Sprachbund
|
| languageBranch | Southern branch of Wakashan ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Wakashan languages ⓘ |
| region | Pacific Northwest ⓘ |
| revitalizationEffort |
documented by linguists
ⓘ
taught in community language programs ⓘ |
| revitalizationStatus | undergoing revitalization ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
Washington State ⓘ
linked to:
Washington State, United States
northwestern Olympic Peninsula ⓘ |
| statusInCommunity | few fluent elder speakers ⓘ |
| subfamily |
Southern Wakashan languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Southern Wakashan
|
| traditionalSpeakers | Makah people ⓘ |
| UNESCOStatus | critically endangered ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Makah Nation
ⓘ
linked to:
Makah Indian Nation
|
| 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: Makah language Description of subject: The Makah language is a critically endangered Southern Wakashan language traditionally spoken by the Makah people of the northwestern Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, USA.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.