Mam
E86612
Mam is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Mam people in the western highlands of Guatemala and parts of southern Mexico.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mam canonical | 6 |
| Mam Maya | 3 |
| Mam people | 2 |
| mam | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T705438 — 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: Mam Context triple: [Guatemala, recognizedLanguage, Mam]
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A.
MAMAC
MAMAC is a modern and contemporary art museum in Nice, France, known for its collections of postwar European and American art.
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B.
Ma
Ma is a common Chinese surname borne by many notable individuals across fields such as music, politics, and sports.
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C.
Maimies
Maimies is an alternate historical name for the Mayaimi people, a Native American group that once inhabited the Lake Okeechobee region of present-day Florida.
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D.
Mawtini
Mawtini is a patriotic Arabic song that serves as Iraq’s national anthem, celebrating homeland, freedom, and resilience.
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E.
Daddy
"Daddy" is a powerful and controversial confessional poem by Sylvia Plath that explores themes of trauma, oppression, and the speaker’s fraught relationship with her father.
- 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: Mam Target entity description: Mam is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Mam people in the western highlands of Guatemala and parts of southern Mexico.
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A.
MAMAC
MAMAC is a modern and contemporary art museum in Nice, France, known for its collections of postwar European and American art.
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B.
Ma
Ma is a common Chinese surname borne by many notable individuals across fields such as music, politics, and sports.
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C.
Maimies
Maimies is an alternate historical name for the Mayaimi people, a Native American group that once inhabited the Lake Okeechobee region of present-day Florida.
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D.
Mawtini
Mawtini is a patriotic Arabic song that serves as Iraq’s national anthem, celebrating homeland, freedom, and resilience.
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E.
Daddy
"Daddy" is a powerful and controversial confessional poem by Sylvia Plath that explores themes of trauma, oppression, and the speaker’s fraught relationship with her father.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mayan language
ⓘ
indigenous language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| country |
Guatemala
ⓘ
Mexico ⓘ |
| endonym | Qyol Mam (in some communities) ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Mam people
ⓘ
linked to:
Mam
|
| glottocode | mamm1241 ⓘ |
| hasAgencySupport | Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Central Mam
ⓘ
Northern Mam ⓘ Southern Mam ⓘ |
| hasDigitalPresence |
online learning materials
ⓘ
social media content in Mam ⓘ |
| hasGrammaticalFeature |
ergative–absolutive alignment
ⓘ
rich aspectual system ⓘ verb–initial basic word order ⓘ |
| hasLoanwordsFrom | Spanish ⓘ |
| hasMedia | community radio programs in Mam ⓘ |
| hasNeighboringLanguage |
Akateko
ⓘ
Ixil ⓘ Kʼicheʼ ⓘ Qʼanjobʼal ⓘ Tektiteko ⓘ |
| hasOrthography | standardized orthography promoted by Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive tone in some dialects
ⓘ
glottalized consonants ⓘ |
| iso639-3Code | mam ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Greater Qʼanjobʼalan (sometimes classified) ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Mayan language family ⓘ |
| languageStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| partOf |
Mesoamerican Linguistic Area
ⓘ
linked to:
Mesoamerican linguistic area
|
| region |
Huehuetenango Department
ⓘ
Quetzaltenango Department ⓘ San Marcos Department ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Guatemala
ⓘ
Mexico ⓘ southern Mexico ⓘ western highlands of Guatemala ⓘ |
| subfamily |
Western Mayan languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Mayan languages
|
| usedFor |
daily communication among Mam people
ⓘ
local radio broadcasting ⓘ oral tradition ⓘ religious practice ⓘ |
| usedInEducation | bilingual education programs in Guatemala ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin script
ⓘ
linked to:
Latin alphabet
|
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: Mam Description of subject: Mam is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Mam people in the western highlands of Guatemala and parts of southern Mexico.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mam
linked to: Mam
linked to: Mam
linked to: Mam
linked to: Mam
linked to: Mam
subject linked to:
Qyol Mam (in some communities)