Argentine Sign Language
E803228
Argentine Sign Language is the primary visual-gestural language used by the Deaf community in Argentina, with linguistic roots in the French Sign Language family.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Argentine Sign Language canonical | 3 |
| Lengua de Señas Argentina | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9478087 — 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: Argentine Sign Language Context triple: [French Sign Language family, hasMember, Argentine Sign Language]
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A.
Uruguayan Sign Language
Uruguayan Sign Language is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Uruguay, historically derived from the French Sign Language family and shaped by local linguistic and cultural influences.
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B.
Chilean Sign Language
Chilean Sign Language is the primary visual-gestural language used by the Deaf community in Chile, with its own grammar and lexicon distinct from spoken Spanish.
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C.
Bolivian Sign Language
Bolivian Sign Language is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Bolivia, historically derived from the French Sign Language family.
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D.
Venezuelan Sign Language
Venezuelan Sign Language is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Venezuela, historically derived from and related to the French Sign Language family.
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E.
Peruvian Sign Language
Peruvian Sign Language is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Peru, historically derived from and related to the French Sign Language family.
- 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: Argentine Sign Language Target entity description: Argentine Sign Language is the primary visual-gestural language used by the Deaf community in Argentina, with linguistic roots in the French Sign Language family.
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A.
Uruguayan Sign Language
Uruguayan Sign Language is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Uruguay, historically derived from the French Sign Language family and shaped by local linguistic and cultural influences.
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B.
Chilean Sign Language
Chilean Sign Language is the primary visual-gestural language used by the Deaf community in Chile, with its own grammar and lexicon distinct from spoken Spanish.
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C.
Bolivian Sign Language
Bolivian Sign Language is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Bolivia, historically derived from the French Sign Language family.
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D.
Venezuelan Sign Language
Venezuelan Sign Language is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Venezuela, historically derived from and related to the French Sign Language family.
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E.
Peruvian Sign Language
Peruvian Sign Language is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Peru, historically derived from and related to the French Sign Language family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
natural language
ⓘ
sign language ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
LSA
ⓘ
Lengua de Señas Argentina ⓘ
linked to:
Argentine Sign Language
|
| community | Argentine Deaf community ⓘ |
| country | Argentina ⓘ |
| glottocode | arge1238 ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Buenos Aires variety
ⓘ
Córdoba variety ⓘ Rosario variety ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
classifier constructions
ⓘ
non-manual markers for questions ⓘ use of signing space for grammatical relations ⓘ verb agreement through movement and direction ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticOrigin |
influenced by French Sign Language
ⓘ
influenced by local home sign systems ⓘ influenced by regional sign varieties in Argentina ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | aed ⓘ |
| languageFamily | French Sign Language family ⓘ |
| linguisticTypology | subject–object–verb dominant order in many clauses ⓘ |
| modality | manual-visual ⓘ |
| notMutuallyIntelligibleWith |
American Sign Language
ⓘ
Brazilian Sign Language ⓘ Spanish ⓘ |
| primaryUsers | Deaf community in Argentina ⓘ |
| recognizedBy | some provincial laws in Argentina ⓘ |
| region |
Buenos Aires
ⓘ
Córdoba Province ⓘ Mendoza Province ⓘ Santa Fe Province ⓘ other urban centers in Argentina ⓘ |
| signOrder | typically topic–comment ⓘ |
| status | major sign language of Argentina ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Deaf Argentines
ⓘ
children of Deaf adults in Argentina ⓘ |
| usedFor |
community communication among Deaf people in Argentina
ⓘ
education of Deaf students in Argentina ⓘ religious services for Deaf congregations in Argentina ⓘ television interpreting in Argentina ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Deaf associations in Argentina
ⓘ
Deaf schools in Argentina ⓘ interpreting services in Argentina ⓘ |
| uses |
body movements
ⓘ
facial expressions ⓘ handshapes ⓘ spatial grammar ⓘ |
| writingSystem | 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: Argentine Sign Language Description of subject: Argentine Sign Language is the primary visual-gestural language used by the Deaf community in Argentina, with linguistic roots in the French Sign Language family.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Argentine Sign Language