Tojolabal Maya
E620459
Tojolabal Maya is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Tojolabal people in the Chiapas region of southern Mexico.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tojolabal Maya canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6774323 — 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: Tojolabal Maya Context triple: [Tojolabal, hasAlternativeName, Tojolabal Maya]
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A.
Kʼicheʼ Maya
The Kʼicheʼ Maya are an indigenous Maya people of the Guatemalan highlands, known for their rich linguistic and cultural heritage and for preserving traditions that predate the Spanish conquest.
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B.
Poqomchiʼ Maya
The Poqomchiʼ Maya are an indigenous Mayan people of the Guatemalan highlands, known for their distinct Mayan language, traditional agriculture, and rich ceremonial and cultural practices.
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C.
Poqomam Maya
The Poqomam Maya are an indigenous Maya people of Guatemala and neighboring regions, known for their distinct Mayan language and cultural traditions that persisted despite colonial-era conflicts and displacement.
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D.
Cakchiquel
Cakchiquel is a Mayan language spoken primarily in the central highlands of Guatemala by the Kaqchikel people.
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E.
Mopan Maya
Mopan Maya is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Mopan people in Belize and Guatemala, known for its rich oral traditions and complex grammatical structure.
- 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: Tojolabal Maya Target entity description: Tojolabal Maya is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Tojolabal people in the Chiapas region of southern Mexico.
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A.
Kʼicheʼ Maya
The Kʼicheʼ Maya are an indigenous Maya people of the Guatemalan highlands, known for their rich linguistic and cultural heritage and for preserving traditions that predate the Spanish conquest.
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B.
Poqomchiʼ Maya
The Poqomchiʼ Maya are an indigenous Mayan people of the Guatemalan highlands, known for their distinct Mayan language, traditional agriculture, and rich ceremonial and cultural practices.
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C.
Poqomam Maya
The Poqomam Maya are an indigenous Maya people of Guatemala and neighboring regions, known for their distinct Mayan language and cultural traditions that persisted despite colonial-era conflicts and displacement.
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D.
Cakchiquel
Cakchiquel is a Mayan language spoken primarily in the central highlands of Guatemala by the Kaqchikel people.
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E.
Mopan Maya
Mopan Maya is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Mopan people in Belize and Guatemala, known for its rich oral traditions and complex grammatical structure.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Mayan language ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Tzeltal language
ⓘ
Tzotzil language ⓘ
linked to:
Tzotzil
|
| country | Mexico ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Tojolabal ⓘ |
| glottocode | tojo1241 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Tojol-abʼal
ⓘ
linked to:
Tojolabal
Tojolabal ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
Altamirano Tojolabal
ⓘ
linked to:
Altamirano
Las Margaritas Tojolabal ⓘ |
| hasGrammaticalFeature |
ergative–absolutive alignment
ⓘ
head-marking morphology ⓘ verb-initial basic word order ⓘ |
| hasLanguageAcademy | community-based language organizations in Chiapas ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive glottalized consonants
ⓘ
tone absent ⓘ |
| hasSpeakerPopulation | tens of thousands of speakers ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | toj ⓘ |
| languageBranch |
Cholan–Tzeltalan
ⓘ
Tzeltalan ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Mayan ⓘ |
| languageStatus | vigorous use in communities ⓘ |
| partOf | indigenous linguistic heritage of Chiapas ⓘ |
| recognizedBy | Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas ⓘ |
| region |
Chiapas Highlands
ⓘ
southern Mexico ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Tojolabal people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Chiapas
ⓘ
Mexico ⓘ |
| spokenInMunicipality |
Altamirano
ⓘ
Comitán de Domínguez ⓘ La Independencia ⓘ Las Margaritas ⓘ Trinitaria ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Mayan language family
ⓘ
linked to:
Mayan languages
Tojolabal language ⓘ
linked to:
Tojol-abʼal language
|
| subjectOf | linguistic research on Mayan languages ⓘ |
| usedFor |
local community communication
ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ traditional ceremonies ⓘ |
| usedInEducation | bilingual intercultural education programs in Chiapas ⓘ |
| 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: Tojolabal Maya Description of subject: Tojolabal Maya is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Tojolabal people in the Chiapas region of southern Mexico.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.