The Atlas of Languages
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The Atlas of Languages is a comprehensive reference work that surveys the world’s linguistic diversity, mapping and describing languages, language families, and their global distribution.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Atlas of Languages canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10709002 — 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: The Atlas of Languages Context triple: [Bernard Comrie, notableWork, The Atlas of Languages]
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A.
World Atlas of Language Structures
The World Atlas of Language Structures is a large-scale, comparative database and reference work that maps structural features of languages around the world.
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B.
UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger
The UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger is an online reference work that documents and maps endangered languages worldwide, providing information on their vitality and risk of extinction.
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C.
Loanwords in the World’s Languages
"Loanwords in the World’s Languages" is a comprehensive linguistic reference work that surveys and analyzes how and why words are borrowed across a wide range of the world’s languages.
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D.
Ethnologue
Ethnologue is a comprehensive reference work that catalogs and provides detailed information on the world’s known living languages.
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E.
Derajat linguistic area
The Derajat linguistic area is a dialect region in western Punjab and adjacent areas where closely related varieties of Punjabi and Saraiki, including Derawali, are spoken.
- 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: The Atlas of Languages Target entity description: The Atlas of Languages is a comprehensive reference work that surveys the world’s linguistic diversity, mapping and describing languages, language families, and their global distribution.
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A.
World Atlas of Language Structures
The World Atlas of Language Structures is a large-scale, comparative database and reference work that maps structural features of languages around the world.
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B.
UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger
The UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger is an online reference work that documents and maps endangered languages worldwide, providing information on their vitality and risk of extinction.
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C.
Loanwords in the World’s Languages
"Loanwords in the World’s Languages" is a comprehensive linguistic reference work that surveys and analyzes how and why words are borrowed across a wide range of the world’s languages.
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D.
Ethnologue
Ethnologue is a comprehensive reference work that catalogs and provides detailed information on the world’s known living languages.
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E.
Derajat linguistic area
The Derajat linguistic area is a dialect region in western Punjab and adjacent areas where closely related varieties of Punjabi and Saraiki, including Derawali, are spoken.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | reference work ⓘ |
| coversArea | world ⓘ |
| describes |
endangered languages
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global distribution of languages ⓘ language families ⓘ languages ⓘ multilingual regions ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
geolinguistics
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linguistics ⓘ sociolinguistics ⓘ |
| genre |
atlas
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linguistic atlas ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
illustrated
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map-based ⓘ textual descriptions ⓘ |
| hasPart |
maps of language families
ⓘ
regional language surveys ⓘ statistical language data ⓘ |
| hasTitle | The Atlas of Languages ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
general readers
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students of linguistics ⓘ teachers ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
language distribution
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language families ⓘ languages of the world ⓘ linguistic diversity ⓘ |
| purpose |
to describe global language distribution
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to map languages and language families ⓘ to survey the world’s linguistic diversity ⓘ |
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: The Atlas of Languages Description of subject: The Atlas of Languages is a comprehensive reference work that surveys the world’s linguistic diversity, mapping and describing languages, language families, and their global distribution.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.