Mono language
E100285
Mono language is a Native American Uto-Aztecan language traditionally spoken by the Mono people of eastern California.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mono language canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T847775 — 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: Mono language Context triple: [Mono people, language, Mono language]
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A.
Ludian language
The Ludian language is a lesser-known Uralic language spoken by the Ludic people in northwestern Russia, traditionally seen as transitional between Karelian and Veps.
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B.
Chimariko language
The Chimariko language is an extinct Native American language once spoken in northwestern California, often classified within the proposed Hokan language family.
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C.
Unami language
The Unami language is an Eastern Algonquian Native American language traditionally spoken by the Lenape (Delaware) people in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States.
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D.
Fang language
Fang is a Bantu language spoken primarily by the Fang people of Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Cameroon, notable for its significant influence on local varieties of Spanish and French.
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E.
Seri language
The Seri language is an indigenous, highly distinctive and linguistically isolated language spoken by the Seri people of northwestern Mexico, noted for its complex phonology and morphology.
- 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: Mono language Target entity description: Mono language is a Native American Uto-Aztecan language traditionally spoken by the Mono people of eastern California.
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A.
Ludian language
The Ludian language is a lesser-known Uralic language spoken by the Ludic people in northwestern Russia, traditionally seen as transitional between Karelian and Veps.
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B.
Chimariko language
The Chimariko language is an extinct Native American language once spoken in northwestern California, often classified within the proposed Hokan language family.
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C.
Unami language
The Unami language is an Eastern Algonquian Native American language traditionally spoken by the Lenape (Delaware) people in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States.
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D.
Fang language
Fang is a Bantu language spoken primarily by the Fang people of Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Cameroon, notable for its significant influence on local varieties of Spanish and French.
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E.
Seri language
The Seri language is an indigenous, highly distinctive and linguistically isolated language spoken by the Seri people of northwestern Mexico, noted for its complex phonology and morphology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Native American language
ⓘ
Uto-Aztecan language ⓘ indigenous language of California ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Monachi
ⓘ
Owens Valley Paiute ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Northern Paiute language
ⓘ
Panamint (Koso) language ⓘ
surface form:
Panamint language
Shoshoni language ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| endangeredStatus | severely endangered ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Mono people ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Eastern Mono
ⓘ
Western Mono ⓘ |
| hasLanguageRevitalizationEfforts |
community-based language classes
ⓘ
documentation projects ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
rich consonant inventory ⓘ |
| iso639-3 | mnr ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Uto-Aztecan ⓘ |
| linguisticBranch | Western Numic ⓘ |
| morphologicalType | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| region | eastern California ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Mono people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| status | endangered language ⓘ |
| subfamily | Numic ⓘ |
| syntax | typically SOV word order ⓘ |
| traditionalTerritory |
Owens Valley
ⓘ
surface form:
Owens Valley, California
Sierra Nevada ⓘ
surface form:
Sierra Nevada, California
|
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
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: Mono language Description of subject: Mono language is a Native American Uto-Aztecan language traditionally spoken by the Mono people of eastern California.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Western Numic languages