Czech Sign Language
E802668
Czech Sign Language is the natural visual-gestural language used by the Deaf community in the Czech Republic, belonging to the French Sign Language family.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Czech Sign Language canonical | 4 |
| český znakový jazyk | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9478072 — 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: Czech Sign Language Context triple: [French Sign Language family, hasMember, Czech Sign Language]
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A.
Czech language
Czech language is a West Slavic language spoken primarily in the Czech Republic and known for its rich literary tradition and complex grammar.
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B.
Czech–Slovak languages
The Czech–Slovak languages are a closely related group of Slavic languages, primarily including Czech and Slovak, spoken in Central Europe.
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C.
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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D.
Slovak language
The Slovak language is a West Slavic language spoken primarily in Slovakia and closely related to Czech and Polish.
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E.
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.
- 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: Czech Sign Language Target entity description: Czech Sign Language is the natural visual-gestural language used by the Deaf community in the Czech Republic, belonging to the French Sign Language family.
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A.
Czech language
Czech language is a West Slavic language spoken primarily in the Czech Republic and known for its rich literary tradition and complex grammar.
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B.
Czech–Slovak languages
The Czech–Slovak languages are a closely related group of Slavic languages, primarily including Czech and Slovak, spoken in Central Europe.
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C.
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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D.
Slovak language
The Slovak language is a West Slavic language spoken primarily in Slovakia and closely related to Czech and Polish.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
natural language
ⓘ
sign language ⓘ |
| abbreviation | ČZJ ⓘ |
| country | Czech Republic ⓘ |
| educationPolicy | increasing support for bilingual education (Czech Sign Language and Czech) ⓘ |
| hasCommunity | Czech Deaf community ⓘ |
| hasDialect | regional variants within the Czech Republic ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
non-manual markers for grammar
ⓘ
use of body posture ⓘ use of facial expressions ⓘ use of handshape ⓘ use of location ⓘ use of movement ⓘ use of orientation ⓘ |
| hasGrammar | own grammar distinct from spoken Czech ⓘ |
| hasLexicon | own lexicon distinct from spoken Czech ⓘ |
| hasMorphology |
use of classifier constructions
ⓘ
use of spatial morphology ⓘ verb agreement in space ⓘ |
| hasPhonology |
contrastive handshapes
ⓘ
contrastive locations ⓘ contrastive movements ⓘ contrastive orientations ⓘ non-manual phonological features ⓘ |
| hasResearch | studied in Czech universities and linguistic institutes ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | relatively flexible word order ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Austrian Sign Language
ⓘ
French Sign Language ⓘ German Sign Language ⓘ |
| isNot | not a signed form of spoken Czech ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | cse ⓘ |
| languageCode | cse ⓘ |
| languageFamily | French Sign Language family ⓘ |
| legalStatus | recognized minority language in the Czech Republic ⓘ |
| modality | manual-visual ⓘ |
| name | Czech Sign Language ⓘ |
| nativeName |
český znakový jazyk
ⓘ
linked to:
Czech Sign Language
|
| notSameAs |
Czech language
ⓘ
Signed Czech ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | language of the Deaf community in Czech law ⓘ |
| region | Central Europe ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Deaf community in the Czech Republic
ⓘ
children of Deaf adults in the Czech Republic ⓘ hard-of-hearing people in the Czech Republic ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Deaf associations and cultural events in the Czech Republic
ⓘ
Deaf education in the Czech Republic ⓘ interpreting services in the Czech Republic ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
HamNoSys (used in linguistic notation)
ⓘ
linked to:
HamNoSys
SignWriting (used experimentally) ⓘ
linked to:
Sutton SignWriting block
no widely used standardized writing system ⓘ |
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: Czech Sign Language Description of subject: Czech Sign Language is the natural visual-gestural language used by the Deaf community in the Czech Republic, belonging to the French Sign Language family.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Czech Sign Language