Austrian Sign Language
E802666
Austrian Sign Language is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Austria, with its own distinct grammar and vocabulary rooted in the French Sign Language family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Austrian Sign Language canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9478070 — 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: Austrian Sign Language Context triple: [French Sign Language family, hasMember, Austrian Sign Language]
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A.
Finland-Swedish Sign Language
Finland-Swedish Sign Language is a minority sign language used primarily by the Finland-Swedish deaf community in Finland, with its own distinct linguistic structure and cultural identity.
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B.
Finnish Sign Language
Finnish Sign Language is the primary visual-gestural language of the Finnish Deaf community, with its own grammar and vocabulary distinct from spoken Finnish.
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C.
American Sign Language
American Sign Language is a natural visual-gestural language used primarily by Deaf communities in the United States and parts of Canada, with its own distinct grammar and vocabulary separate from spoken English.
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D.
Austro-Bavarian German
Austro-Bavarian German is a major Upper German dialect group spoken primarily in Austria and parts of Bavaria and South Tyrol, characterized by distinct phonology, vocabulary, and regional varieties.
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E.
ASL
ASL is the ICAO airline designator used to identify Air Serbia in international aviation operations and communications.
- 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: Austrian Sign Language Target entity description: Austrian Sign Language is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Austria, with its own distinct grammar and vocabulary rooted in the French Sign Language family.
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A.
Finland-Swedish Sign Language
Finland-Swedish Sign Language is a minority sign language used primarily by the Finland-Swedish deaf community in Finland, with its own distinct linguistic structure and cultural identity.
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B.
Finnish Sign Language
Finnish Sign Language is the primary visual-gestural language of the Finnish Deaf community, with its own grammar and vocabulary distinct from spoken Finnish.
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C.
American Sign Language
American Sign Language is a natural visual-gestural language used primarily by Deaf communities in the United States and parts of Canada, with its own distinct grammar and vocabulary separate from spoken English.
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D.
Austro-Bavarian German
Austro-Bavarian German is a major Upper German dialect group spoken primarily in Austria and parts of Bavaria and South Tyrol, characterized by distinct phonology, vocabulary, and regional varieties.
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E.
ASL
ASL is the three-letter station code used to identify Arsenal Underground station on the London Underground network.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
natural language
ⓘ
sign language ⓘ |
| countryUsedIn | Austria ⓘ |
| glottocode | aust1250 ⓘ |
| hasCommunity | Austrian Deaf community ⓘ |
| hasLexicalInfluenceFrom |
French Sign Language
ⓘ
German Sign Language ⓘ local home sign systems in Austria ⓘ |
| hasOwnGrammar | true ⓘ |
| hasOwnVocabulary | true ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalParameters |
handshape
ⓘ
location ⓘ movement ⓘ non-manual markers ⓘ orientation ⓘ |
| hasRegionalDialect |
Graz variety
ⓘ
Tyrol variety ⓘ Vienna variety ⓘ |
| hasRegionalVariation | true ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder |
subject-verb-object patterns
ⓘ
topic-comment structures ⓘ |
| isNotDialectOf |
German Sign Language
ⓘ
German spoken language ⓘ |
| ISO6393Code | asq ⓘ |
| isTaughtAt |
interpreter training programs in Austria
ⓘ
universities in Austria ⓘ |
| languageCodeStandard | ISO 639-3 ⓘ |
| languageFamily | French Sign Language family ⓘ |
| legalBasis |
Austrian Federal Constitution
ⓘ
linked to:
Federal Constitutional Law of Austria
|
| legalStatus | recognized in the Austrian Constitution as an independent language ⓘ |
| modality | visual-gestural ⓘ |
| primaryUsers | Deaf community in Austria ⓘ |
| recognitionType | officially recognized sign language of Austria ⓘ |
| recognitionYear | 2005 ⓘ |
| recognizedAsMinorityLanguageIn | Austria ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Deaf people in Austria
ⓘ
children of Deaf adults in Austria ⓘ sign language interpreters in Austria ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Austrian media accessibility services
ⓘ
Deaf community organizations in Austria ⓘ education of Deaf students in Austria ⓘ interpreting services in Austria ⓘ |
| usesArticulators |
body
ⓘ
face ⓘ hands ⓘ |
| usesNonManualFeaturesFor |
conditionals
ⓘ
negation ⓘ questions ⓘ |
| writingSystem | no standard native written form ⓘ |
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: Austrian Sign Language Description of subject: Austrian Sign Language is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Austria, with its own distinct grammar and vocabulary rooted in the French Sign Language family.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.