Klingon language
E632049
The Klingon language is a constructed alien tongue from the Star Trek franchise, developed into a fully usable language with its own grammar, vocabulary, and community of fluent speakers.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Klingon | 6 |
| tlhIngan Hol | 3 |
| Klingon language canonical | 2 |
| Klingon Language Institute website | 1 |
| The Klingon Dictionary | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6953719 — 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: Klingon language Context triple: [Trekkers, languageInterest, Klingon language]
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A.
Picard language
Picard language is a Romance language of northern France and parts of Belgium, closely related to French and Walloon and traditionally spoken in the Picardy and Nord–Pas-de-Calais regions.
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B.
Tobian language
The Tobian language is a Micronesian language spoken primarily on Tobi Island in Palau, known for its small speaker population and close relation to other Carolinean languages.
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C.
Damara language
The Damara language is a Khoe (Central Khoisan) language spoken primarily by the Damara people of Namibia.
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D.
Tuvinian language
The Tuvinian language is a Turkic language spoken primarily in the Tuva Republic of Russia, known for its rich oral traditions and use in Tuvan throat singing culture.
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E.
Saraveca language
The Saraveca language is an extinct Arawakan language once spoken in Bolivia, known from very limited historical documentation.
- 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: Klingon language Target entity description: The Klingon language is a constructed alien tongue from the Star Trek franchise, developed into a fully usable language with its own grammar, vocabulary, and community of fluent speakers.
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A.
Picard language
Picard language is a Romance language of northern France and parts of Belgium, closely related to French and Walloon and traditionally spoken in the Picardy and Nord–Pas-de-Calais regions.
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B.
Tobian language
The Tobian language is a Micronesian language spoken primarily on Tobi Island in Palau, known for its small speaker population and close relation to other Carolinean languages.
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C.
Damara language
The Damara language is a Khoe (Central Khoisan) language spoken primarily by the Damara people of Namibia.
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D.
Tuvinian language
The Tuvinian language is a Turkic language spoken primarily in the Tuva Republic of Russia, known for its rich oral traditions and use in Tuvan throat singing culture.
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E.
Saraveca language
The Saraveca language is an extinct Arawakan language once spoken in Bolivia, known from very limited historical documentation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (62)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
constructed language
ⓘ
fictional language ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
ⓘ
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ⓘ Star Trek: Discovery ⓘ Star Trek: The Motion Picture ⓘ Star Trek: The Next Generation ⓘ Star Trek: Voyager ⓘ |
| basedOn | earlier Klingon words by James Doohan ⓘ |
| creator | Marc Okrand ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | tlh ⓘ |
| hasCanonicalForm |
tlhIngan Hol
ⓘ
linked to:
Klingon language
|
| hasCommunity | Klingon Language Institute ⓘ |
| hasCulturalRole |
iconic example of a fully developed fictional language
ⓘ
symbol of Star Trek fandom ⓘ |
| hasDomain |
conlanging
ⓘ
science fiction ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
agglutinative morphology
ⓘ
aspect-marking verbal suffixes ⓘ deliberately non-human-like structure ⓘ distinctive consonant clusters ⓘ few vowels compared to consonants ⓘ grammatical suffixes grouped into ordered classes ⓘ no grammatical gender ⓘ noun case-like suffixes ⓘ object–verb–subject word order ⓘ phonology designed to sound harsh and alien ⓘ rich verbal affix system ⓘ separate honorific and register markers ⓘ |
| hasFirstMajorDescription | The Klingon Dictionary (1985) ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | klin1234 ⓘ |
| hasGrammar | described in The Klingon Dictionary ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced | other constructed languages for media ⓘ |
| hasISO639-2Code | tlh ⓘ |
| hasISO639-3Code | tlh ⓘ |
| hasLexiconSizeEstimate | thousands of words ⓘ |
| hasNativeName |
tlhIngan Hol
ⓘ
linked to:
Klingon language
|
| hasNotableSpeaker |
Marc Okrand
ⓘ
members of the Klingon Language Institute ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfSpeakersEstimate |
hundreds to thousands of learners
ⓘ
several dozen fluent speakers ⓘ |
| hasOnlinePresence |
Klingon Language Institute website
ⓘ
linked to:
Klingon language
Klingon language courses and resources on the internet ⓘ |
| hasOrganization | Klingon Language Institute ⓘ |
| hasPublication |
Klingon Language Institute journal HolQeD
ⓘ
Klingon for the Galactic Traveler ⓘ Klingon translation of parts of the Bible ⓘ Klingon translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh ⓘ Klingon translations of Shakespeare ⓘ The Klingon Dictionary ⓘ
linked to:
Klingon language
|
| hasStandardizationBody | Klingon Language Institute ⓘ |
| hasUse |
spoken in Star Trek films and television series
ⓘ
used in fan communities ⓘ used in some educational and linguistic studies ⓘ used in some software localizations ⓘ used in some stage productions ⓘ |
| hasYearOfFirstPublication | 1985 ⓘ |
| languageFamily | constructed language family ⓘ |
| partOf |
Star Trek franchise
ⓘ
linked to:
Star Trek
|
| usedBy | Klingons ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Klingon script (pIqaD, fictional)
ⓘ
Latin alphabet (romanization) ⓘ |
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: Klingon language Description of subject: The Klingon language is a constructed alien tongue from the Star Trek franchise, developed into a fully usable language with its own grammar, vocabulary, and community of fluent speakers.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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linked to: Klingon language
linked to: Klingon language
linked to: Klingon language