Yokutsan languages
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Yokutsan languages are a group of Native American languages traditionally spoken by the Yokuts people of California’s Central Valley.
All labels observed (11)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T598303 — 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: Yokutsan languages Context triple: [Hokan languages, includes, Yokutsan languages]
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A.
Miwok languages
Miwok languages are a group of closely related Native American languages traditionally spoken by the Miwok peoples of central and northern California.
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B.
Shasta language
The Shasta language is an extinct Native American language once spoken by the Shasta people of northern California and southern Oregon, often classified within the proposed Hokan language family.
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C.
Karuk language
The Karuk language is an indigenous Native American language traditionally spoken by the Karuk people of northwestern California along the Klamath River.
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D.
Ohlone languages
Ohlone languages are a group of closely related indigenous languages traditionally spoken by the Ohlone people of the central California coast.
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E.
Hokan languages
Hokan languages are a proposed but controversial grouping of several Native American language families of the western United States and Mexico that share certain typological and lexical similarities.
- 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: Yokutsan languages Target entity description: Yokutsan languages are a group of Native American languages traditionally spoken by the Yokuts people of California’s Central Valley.
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A.
Miwok languages
Miwok languages are a group of closely related Native American languages traditionally spoken by the Miwok peoples of central and northern California.
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B.
Shasta language
The Shasta language is an extinct Native American language once spoken by the Shasta people of northern California and southern Oregon, often classified within the proposed Hokan language family.
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C.
Karuk language
The Karuk language is an indigenous Native American language traditionally spoken by the Karuk people of northwestern California along the Klamath River.
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D.
Ohlone languages
Ohlone languages are a group of closely related indigenous languages traditionally spoken by the Ohlone people of the central California coast.
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E.
Hokan languages
Hokan languages are a proposed but controversial grouping of several Native American language families of the western United States and Mexico that share certain typological and lexical similarities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Native American language family
ⓘ
language family ⓘ |
| arealFeature | California linguistic area ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| documentedBy | linguists ⓘ |
| documentedIn |
dictionaries
ⓘ
grammars ⓘ text collections ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Yokuts people ⓘ |
| feature |
complex consonant clusters
ⓘ
rich verbal morphology ⓘ vowel length contrast ⓘ |
| geneticAffiliation | proposed Penutian languages ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Choynimni
ⓘ
Chukchansi ⓘ Delta Yokuts ⓘ Foothill Yokuts ⓘ
linked to:
Kern River Yokuts
Gashowu ⓘ Kings River Yokuts ⓘ
linked to:
Kern River Yokuts
Northern Valley Yokuts ⓘ Palewyami ⓘ Southern Valley Yokuts ⓘ
linked to:
Kern River Yokuts
Tachi ⓘ Tulare Lake Yokuts ⓘ Valley Yokuts ⓘ
linked to:
Northern Valley Yokuts
Wukchumni ⓘ
linked to:
Me-wuk
Yowlumne ⓘ |
| historicalRegion |
San Joaquin River basin
ⓘ
linked to:
San Joaquin River Basin
Tulare Lake basin ⓘ
linked to:
Tulare Basin
|
| ISOClassification | no single ISO 639-3 code for the family ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Yok-Utian languages ⓘ |
| languageShiftTo | English ⓘ |
| linguisticTypology | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| morphology | polysynthetic morphology ⓘ |
| region |
San Joaquin Valley
ⓘ
Sierra Nevada foothills ⓘ |
| revitalization |
community language programs
ⓘ
documentation projects ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
California Central Valley ⓘ
linked to:
Central Valley
|
| status |
moribund
ⓘ
partially extinct ⓘ severely endangered ⓘ |
| subclassificationStatus | controversial ⓘ |
| timeDepth | pre-contact California ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Yokuts tribes
ⓘ
linked to:
Yokuts people
|
| wordOrder | SOV ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin script ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Yokutsan languages Description of subject: Yokutsan languages are a group of Native American languages traditionally spoken by the Yokuts people of California’s Central Valley.
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