Sateré-Mawé language
E596814
The Sateré-Mawé language is an indigenous Tupian language spoken by the Sateré-Mawé people of the Brazilian Amazon.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sateré-Mawé | 5 |
| Sateré-Mawé language canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6469584 — 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: Sateré-Mawé language Context triple: [Tupian, wellKnownLanguage, Sateré-Mawé language]
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A.
Tontemboan language
The Tontemboan language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tontemboan people of North Sulawesi, Indonesia, and is one of the traditional Minahasan languages of the region.
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B.
Baoulé language
The Baoulé language is a Niger-Congo language spoken primarily by the Baoulé people of central Côte d'Ivoire.
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C.
Ewondo language
Ewondo is a Bantu language spoken primarily in central Cameroon, notably around the capital Yaoundé, by the Ewondo (Yaoundé) people.
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D.
Teke–Mbede languages
The Teke–Mbede languages are a group of closely related Bantu languages spoken primarily in Gabon and neighboring Central African countries.
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E.
Banda-Ndélé language
The Banda-Ndélé language is a Central Sudanic language spoken by the Banda people, primarily in the Central African Republic.
- 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: Sateré-Mawé language Target entity description: The Sateré-Mawé language is an indigenous Tupian language spoken by the Sateré-Mawé people of the Brazilian Amazon.
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A.
Tontemboan language
The Tontemboan language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tontemboan people of North Sulawesi, Indonesia, and is one of the traditional Minahasan languages of the region.
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B.
Baoulé language
The Baoulé language is a Niger-Congo language spoken primarily by the Baoulé people of central Côte d'Ivoire.
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C.
Ewondo language
Ewondo is a Bantu language spoken primarily in central Cameroon, notably around the capital Yaoundé, by the Ewondo (Yaoundé) people.
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D.
Teke–Mbede languages
The Teke–Mbede languages are a group of closely related Bantu languages spoken primarily in Gabon and neighboring Central African countries.
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E.
Banda-Ndélé language
The Banda-Ndélé language is a Central Sudanic language spoken by the Banda people, primarily in the Central African Republic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American indigenous language
ⓘ
indigenous language ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Andira
ⓘ
Maragua ⓘ Mawé ⓘ Sateré ⓘ |
| contactLanguage | Portuguese ⓘ |
| country | Brazil ⓘ |
| ethnologueEntry |
Sateré-Mawé
ⓘ
linked to:
Sateré-Mawé language
|
| geographicDistribution | central Amazon basin ⓘ |
| glottocode | sate1243 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Satere-Mawe ⓘ |
| hasCommunity | indigenous community ⓘ |
| hasCulturalRole | marker of Sateré-Mawé identity ⓘ |
| hasDomain |
mythology
ⓘ
ritual songs ⓘ traditional ecological knowledge ⓘ |
| hasEndangermentStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| hasLanguagePolicyContext | Brazilian indigenous languages policy ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticArea | Amazonian languages area ⓘ |
| hasOrthographyStatus | standardized community orthography ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive nasalization
ⓘ
nasal vowels ⓘ oral vowels ⓘ |
| hasSociolinguisticSituation | bilingualism with Portuguese ⓘ |
| hasSpeakerEthnicity |
Sateré-Mawé
ⓘ
linked to:
Sateré-Mawé language
|
| hasTypologicalFeature |
agglutinative morphology
ⓘ
head-marking ⓘ verb-final tendencies ⓘ |
| hasUsageTrend | intergenerational transmission present ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | mav ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Tupian linguistic heritage ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Tupian language family
ⓘ
linked to:
Tupian languages
|
| region |
Brazilian Amazon
ⓘ
linked to:
Amazon Basin
|
| spokenBy | Sateré-Mawé people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Amazonas (Brazilian state)
ⓘ
linked to:
Amazonas state
Brazil ⓘ Pará (Brazilian state) ⓘ
linked to:
Pará
|
| subfamily | Mawé branch ⓘ |
| usedFor |
daily communication
ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ ritual practices ⓘ |
| 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: Sateré-Mawé language Description of subject: The Sateré-Mawé language is an indigenous Tupian language spoken by the Sateré-Mawé people of the Brazilian Amazon.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sateré-Mawé language
linked to: Sateré-Mawé language
linked to: Sateré-Mawé language
linked to: Sateré-Mawé language
linked to: Sateré-Mawé language