Chocoan languages
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The Chocoan languages are a small family of indigenous languages spoken primarily in western Colombia and eastern Panama, known for including the Emberá and Wounaan languages.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Chocoan languages canonical | 5 |
| Chocoan language family | 4 |
| Emberá languages | 4 |
| Chocó languages | 2 |
| Embera languages | 1 |
| Emberá–Wounaan languages | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T560868 — 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: Chocoan languages Context triple: [Emberá, languageFamily, Chocoan languages]
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Oto-Manguean languages
The Oto-Manguean languages are a large and ancient family of indigenous languages of Mesoamerica, spoken primarily in central and southern Mexico and known for their complex tonal systems and significant cultural history.
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Nahuan languages
The Nahuan languages are a branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family that includes Nahuatl and related indigenous languages historically spoken by the Aztecs and other peoples of central Mexico.
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Muna–Buton languages
The Muna–Buton languages are a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily in southeastern Sulawesi and nearby islands in Indonesia.
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Marquesic languages
Marquesic languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian language family spoken primarily in the Marquesas Islands and surrounding regions of Polynesia.
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Batanic languages
Batanic languages are a small subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily in the Batanes Islands of the northern Philippines and parts of Taiwan, known for their unique phonological and lexical features.
- 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: Chocoan languages Target entity description: The Chocoan languages are a small family of indigenous languages spoken primarily in western Colombia and eastern Panama, known for including the Emberá and Wounaan languages.
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A.
Oto-Manguean languages
The Oto-Manguean languages are a large and ancient family of indigenous languages of Mesoamerica, spoken primarily in central and southern Mexico and known for their complex tonal systems and significant cultural history.
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B.
Nahuan languages
The Nahuan languages are a branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family that includes Nahuatl and related indigenous languages historically spoken by the Aztecs and other peoples of central Mexico.
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C.
Muna–Buton languages
The Muna–Buton languages are a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily in southeastern Sulawesi and nearby islands in Indonesia.
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D.
Marquesic languages
Marquesic languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian language family spoken primarily in the Marquesas Islands and surrounding regions of Polynesia.
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E.
Batanic languages
Batanic languages are a small subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily in the Batanes Islands of the northern Philippines and parts of Taiwan, known for their unique phonological and lexical features.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Chocoan languages Description of subject: The Chocoan languages are a small family of indigenous languages spoken primarily in western Colombia and eastern Panama, known for including the Emberá and Wounaan languages.
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