Kanjobal
E602131
Kanjobal is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Qʼanjobʼal people in the highlands of Guatemala and parts of southern Mexico.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kanjobal canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6561584 — 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: Kanjobal Context triple: [Qʼanjobʼal, hasAlternativeName, Kanjobal]
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A.
Kankanay
Kankanay is an Austronesian language spoken by the Kankanaey people of the northern Philippines, particularly in the Cordillera region of Luzon.
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B.
Kaben
Kaben is one of the islands that make up Maloelap Atoll in the Marshall Islands, a Pacific island nation.
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C.
Kaiyukan
Kaiyukan is a large, world-renowned public aquarium in Osaka, Japan, famous for its massive central tank and immersive marine life exhibits.
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D.
Kandas
Kandas is an Oceanic language of the Meso-Melanesian subgroup spoken in parts of Papua New Guinea.
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E.
Kandan
Kandan is a locality within Beijing’s Fengtai District, known primarily as a residential and urban neighborhood area.
- 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: Kanjobal Target entity description: Kanjobal is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Qʼanjobʼal people in the highlands of Guatemala and parts of southern Mexico.
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A.
Kankanay
Kankanay is an Austronesian language spoken by the Kankanaey people of the northern Philippines, particularly in the Cordillera region of Luzon.
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B.
Kaben
Kaben is one of the islands that make up Maloelap Atoll in the Marshall Islands, a Pacific island nation.
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C.
Kaiyukan
Kaiyukan is a large, world-renowned public aquarium in Osaka, Japan, famous for its massive central tank and immersive marine life exhibits.
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D.
Kandas
Kandas is an Oceanic language of the Meso-Melanesian subgroup spoken in parts of Papua New Guinea.
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E.
Kandan
Kandan is a locality within Beijing’s Fengtai District, known primarily as a residential and urban neighborhood area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mayan language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Kanjobal Maya
ⓘ
Qʼanjobʼal ⓘ |
| belongsToMacroArea | Mesoamerica ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Akateko
ⓘ
Chuj ⓘ Tojolabal ⓘ |
| countryRegionDetail | southern Mexico ⓘ |
| culturalAssociation | Maya civilization heritage ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Qʼanjobʼal people ⓘ |
| hasDialects | regional dialect variation ⓘ |
| hasDocumentation | grammars and dictionaries by linguists ⓘ |
| hasLanguageRevitalizationEfforts | community-based literacy programs ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticFeature |
complex aspect system
ⓘ
ergative–absolutive alignment ⓘ glottalized consonants ⓘ head-marking morphology ⓘ tone or pitch distinctions in some dialects ⓘ verb–initial word order tendency ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrast between plain and glottalized stops
ⓘ
rich consonant inventory ⓘ |
| hasStandardizationEfforts |
bilingual education materials
ⓘ
orthography development ⓘ |
| languageCodeISO639-3 | kjb ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Mayan language family
ⓘ
linked to:
Mayan languages
|
| languageFamilyBranch |
Western Mayan
ⓘ
linked to:
Western Maya
|
| languageFamilyNeighbor | Mam ⓘ |
| languageStatus | minority language ⓘ |
| primaryRegion |
Guatemalan highlands
ⓘ
Huehuetenango Department ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Guatemala
ⓘ
Mexico ⓘ |
| subfamily | Qʼanjobʼalan branch ⓘ |
| usedFor |
daily communication in Qʼanjobʼal communities
ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ traditional ceremonies ⓘ |
| usedIn | community radio programming in some areas ⓘ |
| 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: Kanjobal Description of subject: Kanjobal is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Qʼanjobʼal people in the highlands of Guatemala and parts of southern Mexico.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.