Mexican Sign Language
E802674
Mexican Sign Language is the primary sign language used by Deaf communities in Mexico, with its own distinct grammar and lexicon separate from spoken Spanish.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mexican Sign Language canonical | 3 |
| Lengua de Señas Mexicana | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9478079 — 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: Mexican Sign Language Context triple: [French Sign Language family, hasMember, Mexican Sign Language]
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A.
Mexican indigenous languages
Mexican indigenous languages are the diverse group of native languages spoken by the original peoples of Mexico, belonging to multiple language families and embodying rich cultural and historical traditions.
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B.
Huastec language
The Huastec language is a Mayan language spoken by the Huastec people primarily in the northeastern region of Mexico.
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C.
Jalisco Nahuatl
Jalisco Nahuatl is a regional variety of the Nahuatl language spoken in the Mexican state of Jalisco, belonging to the Western Nahuatl group.
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D.
Popolocan language
The Popolocan languages are a subgroup of the Oto-Manguean language family spoken by indigenous Popoloca peoples in central Mexico.
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E.
Yucatec Maya
Yucatec Maya is a Mayan language spoken primarily on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, especially among indigenous communities in states like Yucatán, Quintana Roo, and Campeche.
- 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: Mexican Sign Language Target entity description: Mexican Sign Language is the primary sign language used by Deaf communities in Mexico, with its own distinct grammar and lexicon separate from spoken Spanish.
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A.
Mexican indigenous languages
Mexican indigenous languages are the diverse group of native languages spoken by the original peoples of Mexico, belonging to multiple language families and embodying rich cultural and historical traditions.
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B.
Huastec language
The Huastec language is a Mayan language spoken by the Huastec people primarily in the northeastern region of Mexico.
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C.
Jalisco Nahuatl
Jalisco Nahuatl is a regional variety of the Nahuatl language spoken in the Mexican state of Jalisco, belonging to the Western Nahuatl group.
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D.
Popolocan language
The Popolocan languages are a subgroup of the Oto-Manguean language family spoken by indigenous Popoloca peoples in central Mexico.
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E.
Yucatec Maya
Yucatec Maya is a Mayan language spoken primarily on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, especially among indigenous communities in states like Yucatán, Quintana Roo, and Campeche.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
natural language
ⓘ
sign language ⓘ |
| canBeTranscribedWith |
HamNoSys
ⓘ
SignWriting ⓘ
linked to:
Sutton SignWriting block
|
| country | Mexico ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | LSM ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Guadalajara variety
ⓘ
Mexico City variety ⓘ Monterrey variety ⓘ |
| hasDistinctGrammarFrom | Spanish ⓘ |
| hasDistinctLexiconFrom | Spanish ⓘ |
| hasMorphology | non-concatenative morphology ⓘ |
| hasNameInSpanish |
Lengua de Señas Mexicana
ⓘ
linked to:
Mexican Sign Language
|
| hasNonManualGrammar |
body posture
ⓘ
facial expressions ⓘ head movements ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalParameters |
handshape
ⓘ
location ⓘ movement ⓘ non-manual markers ⓘ orientation ⓘ |
| hasRegionalVariation | yes ⓘ |
| hasStatus | minority language in Mexico ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder |
often topic–comment
ⓘ
variable word order ⓘ |
| isNotDialectOf | Spanish ⓘ |
| isNotManuallyCodedFormOf | Spanish ⓘ |
| ISO6393Code | mfs ⓘ |
| isOfficiallyRecognizedIn | Mexico ⓘ |
| languageFamily | French Sign Language family ⓘ |
| legalRecognitionYear | 2003 ⓘ |
| modality |
gestural
ⓘ
visual ⓘ |
| notMutuallyIntelligibleWith |
American Sign Language
ⓘ
Spanish Sign Language ⓘ |
| primaryUsers | Deaf communities in Mexico ⓘ |
| recognizedAlongWith |
Spanish
ⓘ
indigenous languages of Mexico ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | national language of Mexico ⓘ |
| recognizedBy | General Law on the Linguistic Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Mexico) ⓘ |
| usedByMinorityGroup | Deaf people in Mexico ⓘ |
| usedInDomain |
Deaf community media in Mexico
ⓘ
Deaf education in Mexico ⓘ interpreting services in Mexico ⓘ |
| usesArticulators |
body
ⓘ
face ⓘ hands ⓘ |
| usesClassifierConstructions | yes ⓘ |
| usesRoleShift | yes ⓘ |
| usesSpaceGrammatically | yes ⓘ |
| writingSystem | no standard native 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: Mexican Sign Language Description of subject: Mexican Sign Language is the primary sign language used by Deaf communities in Mexico, with its own distinct grammar and lexicon separate from spoken Spanish.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mexican Sign Language