Jordanian Sign Language
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Jordanian Sign Language is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Jordan, sharing historical roots and linguistic features with the broader French Sign Language family.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jordanian Sign Language canonical | 2 |
| JSL (Jordanian Sign Language) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9478094 — 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: Jordanian Sign Language Context triple: [French Sign Language family, hasMember, Jordanian Sign Language]
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A.
Korean Sign Language
Korean Sign Language is the primary visual-gestural language used by the Deaf community in South Korea, with its own distinct grammar and vocabulary separate from spoken Korean.
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B.
Japanese Sign Language
Japanese Sign Language is the natural visual-gestural language used by the Deaf community in Japan, with its own distinct grammar, vocabulary, and linguistic structure separate from spoken Japanese.
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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.
ASL
ASL is the ICAO airline designator used to identify Air Serbia in international aviation operations and communications.
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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
- 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: Jordanian Sign Language Target entity description: Jordanian Sign Language is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Jordan, sharing historical roots and linguistic features with the broader French Sign Language family.
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A.
Korean Sign Language
Korean Sign Language is the primary visual-gestural language used by the Deaf community in South Korea, with its own distinct grammar and vocabulary separate from spoken Korean.
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B.
Japanese Sign Language
Japanese Sign Language is the natural visual-gestural language used by the Deaf community in Japan, with its own distinct grammar, vocabulary, and linguistic structure separate from spoken Japanese.
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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.
ASL
ASL is the ICAO airline designator used to identify Air Serbia in international aviation operations and communications.
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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 (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
natural language
ⓘ
sign language ⓘ |
| countryUsedIn | Jordan ⓘ |
| hasAcquisitionType |
first language for many Deaf Jordanians
ⓘ
second language for some hearing Jordanians ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
JSL (Jordanian Sign Language)
ⓘ
linked to:
Jordanian Sign Language
|
| hasCommunity |
Jordanian Deaf community
ⓘ
linked to:
Deaf Jordanians
|
| hasDomainOfUse |
Deaf community organizations in Jordan
ⓘ
education of the Deaf in Jordan ⓘ media and interpreting in Jordan ⓘ religious services for Deaf people in Jordan ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | jord1235 ⓘ |
| hasISO6393Code | jos ⓘ |
| hasLexicalInfluenceFrom |
local Deaf community innovations
ⓘ
other regional sign languages ⓘ |
| hasPhonologyType | manual and non-manual parameters ⓘ |
| hasStatus | de facto primary sign language of Jordan ⓘ |
| hasType | national sign language ⓘ |
| hasUserGroup |
Deaf Jordanians
ⓘ
families of Deaf Jordanians ⓘ sign language interpreters in Jordan ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | flexible word order ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem | no widely used standardized written form ⓘ |
| isDistinctFrom | Arabic Sign Language (pan-Arab varieties) ⓘ |
| isNotMutuallyIntelligibleWith | spoken Arabic ⓘ |
| isPartOf | global community of Francosign languages ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf | linguistic research on sign languages in the Middle East ⓘ |
| isTaughtIn | some schools for the Deaf in Jordan ⓘ |
| isUsedFor |
interpretation between Deaf and hearing people in Jordan
ⓘ
intra-community communication among Deaf Jordanians ⓘ |
| isUsedIn |
Amman
ⓘ
urban areas of Jordan ⓘ |
| languageCodeStandard | ISO 639-3 ⓘ |
| languageFamily | French Sign Language family ⓘ |
| modality | visual-gestural ⓘ |
| primaryLanguageOf | Deaf community in Jordan ⓘ |
| region | Middle East ⓘ |
| sharesHistoricalRootsWith | French Sign Language ⓘ |
| sharesLinguisticFeaturesWith | French Sign Language ⓘ |
| usesNonManualFeatures |
body posture
ⓘ
facial expressions ⓘ mouth movements ⓘ |
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: Jordanian Sign Language Description of subject: Jordanian Sign Language is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Jordan, sharing historical roots and linguistic features with the broader French Sign Language family.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Jordanian Sign Language