Romanian Sign Language
E802670
Romanian Sign Language is the primary visual-gestural language used by the Deaf community in Romania, historically influenced by the French Sign Language family.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Limbajul semnelor române | 1 |
| Romanian Sign Language canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9478075 — 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: Romanian Sign Language Context triple: [French Sign Language family, hasMember, Romanian Sign Language]
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A.
Bulgarian Sign Language
Bulgarian Sign Language is the natural visual-gestural language used by the Deaf community in Bulgaria, with its own grammar and vocabulary distinct from spoken Bulgarian.
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B.
Romanian language
Romanian is a Romance language spoken primarily in Romania and Moldova, notable for preserving many features of Latin while incorporating significant Slavic and Balkan influences.
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C.
Romani language
The Romani language is an Indo-Aryan language traditionally spoken by Romani communities across Europe and beyond, featuring numerous dialects influenced by the languages of the regions where its speakers live.
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D.
Bulgarian Sign Language (written form)
Bulgarian Sign Language (written form) is the standardized written representation of Bulgarian Sign Language that employs the Cyrillic script to record and communicate signed expressions.
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E.
Romani
The Romani are a traditionally nomadic ethnic group of Indian origin, now widely dispersed across Europe and beyond, known for their distinct language, culture, and history of marginalization.
- 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: Romanian Sign Language Target entity description: Romanian Sign Language is the primary visual-gestural language used by the Deaf community in Romania, historically influenced by the French Sign Language family.
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A.
Bulgarian Sign Language
Bulgarian Sign Language is the natural visual-gestural language used by the Deaf community in Bulgaria, with its own grammar and vocabulary distinct from spoken Bulgarian.
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B.
Romanian language
Romanian is a Romance language spoken primarily in Romania and Moldova, notable for preserving many features of Latin while incorporating significant Slavic and Balkan influences.
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C.
Romani language
The Romani language is an Indo-Aryan language traditionally spoken by Romani communities across Europe and beyond, featuring numerous dialects influenced by the languages of the regions where its speakers live.
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D.
Bulgarian Sign Language (written form)
Bulgarian Sign Language (written form) is the standardized written representation of Bulgarian Sign Language that employs the Cyrillic script to record and communicate signed expressions.
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E.
Romani
The Romani are a traditionally nomadic ethnic group of Indian origin, now widely dispersed across Europe and beyond, known for their distinct language, culture, and history of marginalization.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
natural language
ⓘ
sign language ⓘ |
| communicationMode | face-to-face ⓘ |
| countryUsedIn | Romania ⓘ |
| hasAcquisitionMode |
first language for many Deaf children in Romania
ⓘ
second language for some hearing Romanians ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
LSR
ⓘ
Limbajul semnelor române ⓘ
linked to:
Romanian Sign Language
|
| hasLinguisticLevel |
morphology
ⓘ
phonology ⓘ semantics ⓘ syntax ⓘ |
| hasParameter |
handshape
ⓘ
location ⓘ movement ⓘ non-manual markers ⓘ orientation ⓘ |
| hasStatus | primary sign language of Romania ⓘ |
| hasType | national sign language ⓘ |
| hasUserGroup |
Romanian Deaf students
ⓘ
Romanian Sign Language interpreters ⓘ hearing family members of Deaf Romanians ⓘ |
| influencedBy | French Sign Language ⓘ |
| isNot | a manual encoding of spoken Romanian ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | rms ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Romaniandeafculture ⓘ |
| isUsedFor |
access to public services via interpreters in Romania
ⓘ
community interaction among Deaf Romanians ⓘ education of Deaf children in Romania ⓘ |
| languageFamily | French Sign Language family ⓘ |
| modality | manual-visual ⓘ |
| primaryUsers | Deaf community in Romania ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | language of the Romanian Deaf community ⓘ |
| regionUsedIn |
rural areas of Romania
ⓘ
urban areas of Romania ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Deaf people in Romania
ⓘ
children of Deaf adults in Romania ⓘ hard of hearing people in Romania ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Deaf associations in Romania
ⓘ
Deaf schools in Romania ⓘ interpreting services in Romania ⓘ |
| uses |
body movements
ⓘ
facial expressions ⓘ handshapes ⓘ spatial grammar ⓘ |
| writingSystem | no widely used standardized 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: Romanian Sign Language Description of subject: Romanian Sign Language is the primary visual-gestural language used by the Deaf community in Romania, historically influenced by the French Sign Language family.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Romanian Sign Language