Paraguayan Sign Language
E804770
Paraguayan Sign Language is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Paraguay, historically derived from and related to the French Sign Language family.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paraguayan Sign Language canonical | 2 |
| Lengua de Señas Paraguaya | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9478088 — 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: Paraguayan Sign Language Context triple: [French Sign Language family, hasMember, Paraguayan 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.
Argentine Sign Language
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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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.
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.
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E.
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.
- 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: Paraguayan Sign Language Target entity description: Paraguayan Sign Language is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Paraguay, historically derived from and related to 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.
Argentine Sign Language
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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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.
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.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
natural language
ⓘ
sign language ⓘ |
| countryUsedIn | Paraguay ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | French Sign Language ⓘ |
| hasAcquisition | typically acquired natively by Deaf children of Deaf adults in Paraguay ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
LSPy
ⓘ
Lengua de Señas Paraguaya ⓘ
linked to:
Paraguayan Sign Language
|
| hasCommunity | Paraguayan Deaf community ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceFrom | regional sign languages in South America ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticType | subject–object–verb dominant word order (in glossing) ⓘ |
| hasPhonology | uses handshape, location, movement, orientation, and non-manual markers ⓘ |
| hasRegion |
Asunción
ⓘ
urban areas of Paraguay ⓘ |
| hasRelationTo | French Sign Language family sign languages in Latin America ⓘ |
| hasSecondLanguageLearners |
hearing family members of Deaf Paraguayans
ⓘ
sign language interpreters in Paraguay ⓘ |
| hasStatus |
minority language in Paraguay
ⓘ
primary language of many Deaf Paraguayans ⓘ |
| languageCodeStatus | may lack ISO 639-3 code or be inconsistently coded ⓘ |
| languageFamily | French Sign Language family ⓘ |
| modality | visual-gestural ⓘ |
| notMutuallyIntelligibleWith |
Guaraní
ⓘ
Paraguayan Spanish ⓘ |
| primaryLanguageOf | Deaf community in Paraguay ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Deaf people in Paraguay
ⓘ
hard of hearing people in Paraguay ⓘ |
| usedFor |
education of Deaf children in Paraguay (to varying degrees)
ⓘ
interpreting in public services for Deaf Paraguayans ⓘ religious services for Deaf people in Paraguay ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Deaf associations in Paraguay
ⓘ
Deaf schools in Paraguay ⓘ informal communication among Deaf Paraguayans ⓘ |
| 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: Paraguayan Sign Language Description of subject: Paraguayan Sign Language is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Paraguay, historically derived from and related to the French Sign Language family.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Paraguayan Sign Language