Swadesh
E601510
Swadesh is a surname most notably associated with American linguist Morris Swadesh, known for his pioneering work in historical and comparative linguistics.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Swadesh list | 3 |
| Swadesh canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6595451 — 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: Swadesh Context triple: [Morris Swadesh, familyName, Swadesh]
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A.
Kurukh
Kurukh is an indigenous Dravidian language spoken primarily by the Oraon tribal communities in eastern and central India.
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B.
Bhasa
Bhasa was an early and influential classical Sanskrit playwright, traditionally dated before Kalidasa, known for his innovative dramatic works rediscovered in the 20th century.
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C.
Onomasticon
Onomasticon is an early fourth-century geographical and biblical reference work by Eusebius of Caesarea that catalogs and explains place names mentioned in the Bible.
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D.
Babel
Babel is a notable work by Japanese dancer and choreographer Yuriko Kikuchi (also known as Yuriko), reflecting her influential contributions to modern dance.
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E.
Babel
Babel is a 2006 multi-narrative drama film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu that interweaves interconnected stories across several countries to explore themes of communication, misfortune, and cultural misunderstanding.
- 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: Swadesh Target entity description: Swadesh is a surname most notably associated with American linguist Morris Swadesh, known for his pioneering work in historical and comparative linguistics.
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A.
Kurukh
Kurukh is an indigenous Dravidian language spoken primarily by the Oraon tribal communities in eastern and central India.
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B.
Bhasa
Bhasa was an early and influential classical Sanskrit playwright, traditionally dated before Kalidasa, known for his innovative dramatic works rediscovered in the 20th century.
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C.
Onomasticon
Onomasticon is an early fourth-century geographical and biblical reference work by Eusebius of Caesarea that catalogs and explains place names mentioned in the Bible.
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D.
Babel
Babel is a notable work by Japanese dancer and choreographer Yuriko Kikuchi (also known as Yuriko), reflecting her influential contributions to modern dance.
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E.
Babel
Babel is a 2006 multi-narrative drama film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu that interweaves interconnected stories across several countries to explore themes of communication, misfortune, and cultural misunderstanding.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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linguist ⓘ surname ⓘ tool in historical linguistics ⓘ word list ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Swadesh ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
comparative linguistics
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historical linguistics ⓘ linguistics ⓘ |
| givenName | Morris ⓘ |
| hasNotableAssociationWith |
comparative linguistics
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glottochronology ⓘ historical linguistics ⓘ lexicostatistics ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Swadesh list
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linked to:
Swadesh
glottochronology ⓘ lexicostatistics ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Yiddish ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Morris Swadesh ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Morris Swadesh ⓘ |
| use |
comparison of basic vocabulary across languages
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glottochronology ⓘ lexicostatistics ⓘ |
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: Swadesh Description of subject: Swadesh is a surname most notably associated with American linguist Morris Swadesh, known for his pioneering work in historical and comparative linguistics.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.