Ute language
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The Ute language is a Southern Numic language of the Uto-Aztecan family traditionally spoken by the Ute people of the western United States.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ute language canonical | 19 |
| Southern Ute language | 1 |
| Ute Indian language | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T637335 — 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: Ute language Context triple: [Chemehuevi language, closelyRelatedTo, Ute language]
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A.
Arapaho language
The Arapaho language is an endangered Algonquian Native American language traditionally spoken by the Arapaho people of the Great Plains, primarily in Wyoming and Oklahoma.
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B.
Navajo language
The Navajo language is an Athabaskan Native American language spoken primarily by the Navajo people of the Southwestern United States and known for its complex verb morphology and historical use as a World War II code.
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C.
Cheyenne language
Cheyenne language is a Native American language of the Algonquian family traditionally spoken by the Cheyenne people of the Great Plains, particularly in Montana and Oklahoma.
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D.
Mojave language
The Mojave language is a Native American Yuman language traditionally spoken by the Mojave people along the lower Colorado River in the southwestern United States.
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E.
Chemehuevi language
Chemehuevi language is a critically endangered Uto-Aztecan language traditionally spoken by the Chemehuevi people of the Great Basin region in the southwestern United States.
- 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: Ute language Target entity description: The Ute language is a Southern Numic language of the Uto-Aztecan family traditionally spoken by the Ute people of the western United States.
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A.
Arapaho language
The Arapaho language is an endangered Algonquian Native American language traditionally spoken by the Arapaho people of the Great Plains, primarily in Wyoming and Oklahoma.
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B.
Navajo language
The Navajo language is an Athabaskan Native American language spoken primarily by the Navajo people of the Southwestern United States and known for its complex verb morphology and historical use as a World War II code.
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C.
Cheyenne language
Cheyenne language is a Native American language of the Algonquian family traditionally spoken by the Cheyenne people of the Great Plains, particularly in Montana and Oklahoma.
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D.
Mojave language
The Mojave language is a Native American Yuman language traditionally spoken by the Mojave people along the lower Colorado River in the southwestern United States.
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E.
Chemehuevi language
Chemehuevi language is a critically endangered Uto-Aztecan language traditionally spoken by the Chemehuevi people of the Great Basin region in the southwestern United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Southern Numic language
ⓘ
Uto-Aztecan language ⓘ indigenous language of North America ⓘ |
| branch | Numic ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Chemehuevi language
ⓘ
Southern Paiute language ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| endangeredStatus | definitely endangered ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Ute people ⓘ |
| family |
Uto-Aztecan language family
ⓘ
linked to:
Uto-Aztecan
|
| glottocode | utee1242 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Ute Indian language
ⓘ
linked to:
Ute language
Ute-Southern Paiute (in some classifications) ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Northern Ute
ⓘ
linked to:
Ute people
Southern Ute ⓘ
linked to:
Southern Ute Indian Reservation
Uncompahgre Ute ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticDocumentation |
dictionaries
ⓘ
grammars ⓘ text collections ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
pitch accent ⓘ |
| hasRevitalizationEffort | tribal language programs ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | SOV-dominant ⓘ |
| iso639-3 | ute ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Numic languages ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Uto-Aztecan ⓘ |
| languageOf |
Southern Ute Indian Tribe
ⓘ
linked to:
Southern Ute Indian Reservation
Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation ⓘ Ute Mountain Ute Tribe ⓘ
linked to:
Ute Mountain Ute Reservation
|
| region |
Arizona
ⓘ
Colorado ⓘ New Mexico ⓘ Utah ⓘ western United States ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Ute people ⓘ |
| subfamily | Numic branch ⓘ |
| subgroup | Southern Numic ⓘ |
| taughtAt |
tribal schools in Colorado
ⓘ
tribal schools in Utah ⓘ |
| usedIn |
oral storytelling traditions
ⓘ
traditional Ute ceremonies ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin script ⓘ |
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: Ute language Description of subject: The Ute language is a Southern Numic language of the Uto-Aztecan family traditionally spoken by the Ute people of the western United States.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.