Ume Sami
E74349
Ume Sami is an endangered Uralic language traditionally spoken by the Sami people in parts of northern Sweden.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T591233 — 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: Ume Sami Context triple: [Sami, hasLanguage, Ume Sami]
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A.
Sojin Kamiyama
Sojin Kamiyama was a Japanese actor of the silent film era, best known for his prominent roles in early Hollywood productions.
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B.
Sanae Takaichi
Sanae Takaichi is a Japanese conservative politician of the Liberal Democratic Party who has served in several ministerial posts and is known for her bids for party leadership and advocacy of hawkish security and traditionalist social policies.
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C.
Hana
Hana is a compassionate Canadian army nurse in Michael Ondaatje's novel "The English Patient," who cares for a badly burned man in an abandoned Italian villa during World War II.
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D.
Minna
Minna is a major city and administrative center in north-central Nigeria, known as the capital of Niger State and a regional hub for trade and transportation.
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E.
Itō Sukeyuki
Itō Sukeyuki was a Japanese admiral who became prominent as a leading naval commander during Japan’s early modern wars and the country’s rise as a maritime power.
- 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: Ume Sami Target entity description: Ume Sami is an endangered Uralic language traditionally spoken by the Sami people in parts of northern Sweden.
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A.
Sojin Kamiyama
Sojin Kamiyama was a Japanese actor of the silent film era, best known for his prominent roles in early Hollywood productions.
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B.
Sanae Takaichi
Sanae Takaichi is a Japanese conservative politician of the Liberal Democratic Party who has served in several ministerial posts and is known for her bids for party leadership and advocacy of hawkish security and traditionalist social policies.
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C.
Hana
Hana is a compassionate Canadian army nurse in Michael Ondaatje's novel "The English Patient," who cares for a badly burned man in an abandoned Italian villa during World War II.
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D.
Minna
Minna is a major city and administrative center in north-central Nigeria, known as the capital of Niger State and a regional hub for trade and transportation.
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E.
Itō Sukeyuki
Itō Sukeyuki was a Japanese admiral who became prominent as a leading naval commander during Japan’s early modern wars and the country’s rise as a maritime power.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sami language
ⓘ
Uralic language ⓘ endangered language ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Lule Sami
ⓘ
Pite Sami ⓘ
linked to:
Pite Sámi
|
| country | Sweden ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision | Västerbotten County ⓘ |
| endangermentCause | language shift to Swedish ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Sami ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
Northern Ume Sami
ⓘ
Southern Ume Sami ⓘ |
| hasGrammaticalFeature |
case inflection
ⓘ
consonant gradation ⓘ rich verbal inflection ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature | vowel harmony ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | ume ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Western Sami languages ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Uralic languages ⓘ |
| minorityLanguageIn | Sweden ⓘ |
| moreDistantlyRelatedTo |
North Sami
ⓘ
linked to:
Kildin Sámi
South Sami ⓘ
linked to:
Southern Sami language
|
| region | northern Sweden ⓘ |
| revitalizationEfforts |
language documentation projects
ⓘ
teaching materials development ⓘ |
| spokenAlong | Ume River ⓘ |
| status | severely endangered ⓘ |
| subfamily | Sami languages ⓘ |
| traditionalSpeakers | Sami people ⓘ |
| usedBy | very small number of speakers ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin script ⓘ |
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: Ume Sami Description of subject: Ume Sami is an endangered Uralic language traditionally spoken by the Sami people in parts of northern Sweden.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.