Costa Rican Sign Language
E802677
Costa Rican Sign Language is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Costa Rica, historically derived from and influenced by the French Sign Language family.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Costa Rican Sign Language canonical | 2 |
| Lengua de Señas Costarricense | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9478082 — 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: Costa Rican Sign Language Context triple: [French Sign Language family, hasMember, Costa Rican Sign Language]
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A.
Nicaraguan Sign Language
Nicaraguan Sign Language is a naturally emerged sign language developed by deaf children in Nicaragua in the late 20th century, widely studied as a landmark case in the spontaneous creation of language.
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B.
Jamaican Sign Language
Jamaican Sign Language is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Jamaica, with its own distinct grammar and vocabulary separate from spoken Jamaican English and other sign languages.
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C.
Lenca language
The Lenca language is an extinct indigenous language once spoken by the Lenca people of Honduras and El Salvador, whose vocabulary and phonology have left a noticeable substrate influence on regional varieties of Central American Spanish.
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D.
Kenyan Sign Language
Kenyan Sign Language is the primary visual-gestural language used by the Deaf community in Kenya, with its own distinct grammar and vocabulary separate from spoken Kenyan languages.
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E.
Masbateño language
Masbateño is a Central Philippine language spoken primarily on Masbate Island in the Philippines, descended from the ancestral Proto-Philippine language.
- 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: Costa Rican Sign Language Target entity description: Costa Rican Sign Language is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Costa Rica, historically derived from and influenced by the French Sign Language family.
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A.
Nicaraguan Sign Language
Nicaraguan Sign Language is a naturally emerged sign language developed by deaf children in Nicaragua in the late 20th century, widely studied as a landmark case in the spontaneous creation of language.
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B.
Jamaican Sign Language
Jamaican Sign Language is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Jamaica, with its own distinct grammar and vocabulary separate from spoken Jamaican English and other sign languages.
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C.
Lenca language
The Lenca language is an extinct indigenous language once spoken by the Lenca people of Honduras and El Salvador, whose vocabulary and phonology have left a noticeable substrate influence on regional varieties of Central American Spanish.
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D.
Kenyan Sign Language
Kenyan Sign Language is the primary visual-gestural language used by the Deaf community in Kenya, with its own distinct grammar and vocabulary separate from spoken Kenyan languages.
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E.
Masbateño language
Masbateño is a Central Philippine language spoken primarily on Masbate Island in the Philippines, descended from the ancestral Proto-Philippine language.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
natural language
ⓘ
sign language ⓘ |
| communicationRole | primary medium of communication in Costa Rican Deaf culture ⓘ |
| country | Costa Rica ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | French Sign Language ⓘ |
| distinctFrom |
American Sign Language
ⓘ
Nicaraguan Sign Language ⓘ Spanish (spoken language) ⓘ |
| hasAcquisition |
acquired natively by Deaf children in Costa Rica
ⓘ
learned as a second language by hearing family members of Deaf people ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
LESCO
ⓘ
Lengua de Señas Costarricense ⓘ
linked to:
Costa Rican Sign Language
|
| hasCulturalRole | marker of identity for the Costa Rican Deaf community ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticFeature |
non-manual markers for negation
ⓘ
non-manual markers for questions ⓘ use of classifier constructions ⓘ use of role shift ⓘ use of spatial grammar ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticType | subject–verb–object dominant word order (in many clauses) ⓘ |
| hasParameter |
handshape
ⓘ
location ⓘ movement ⓘ non-manual signals ⓘ orientation ⓘ |
| hasPhonologyType | manual and non-manual parameters ⓘ |
| hasUserType |
Deaf people
ⓘ
children of Deaf adults ⓘ hard of hearing people ⓘ sign language interpreters ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
French Sign Language
ⓘ
local home sign systems in Costa Rica ⓘ regional sign varieties in Central America ⓘ |
| ISO6393Code | csr ⓘ |
| languageCodeStandard | ISO 639-3 ⓘ |
| languageFamily | French Sign Language family ⓘ |
| modality | visual-gestural ⓘ |
| primaryUsers | Deaf community in Costa Rica ⓘ |
| region | Central America ⓘ |
| status | primary sign language of Costa Rica ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Costa Rican Deaf associations
ⓘ
sign language interpreters in Costa Rica ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Deaf community organizations in Costa Rica
ⓘ
education of Deaf people in Costa Rica ⓘ informal communication among Deaf Costa Ricans ⓘ public service announcements for Deaf audiences in Costa Rica ⓘ religious services interpreted for Deaf people in Costa Rica ⓘ television interpreting in Costa Rica ⓘ |
| writingSystem | no standard 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: Costa Rican Sign Language Description of subject: Costa Rican Sign Language is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Costa Rica, historically derived from and influenced by the French Sign Language family.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Costa Rican Sign Language