Chehalis language
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The Chehalis language is a now-extinct Salishan language once spoken by the Chehalis people of western Washington State in the Pacific Northwest.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Chehalis language canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12598484 — 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: Chehalis language Context triple: [Chinook Wawa, hasLexicalSource, Chehalis language]
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A.
Quinault language
The Quinault language is a critically endangered Native American language of the Salishan family traditionally spoken by the Quinault people of western Washington State.
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B.
Cowlitz language
The Cowlitz language is an Indigenous Salishan language of the Pacific Northwest historically spoken by the Cowlitz people of what is now southwestern Washington State.
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C.
Klallam language
The Klallam language is an Indigenous Coast Salish language of the Pacific Northwest, traditionally spoken by the Klallam (S'Klallam) people of the Strait of Juan de Fuca region in Washington State and Vancouver Island.
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D.
Wasco-Wishram language
The Wasco-Wishram language is a nearly extinct Native American language of the Chinookan family traditionally spoken along the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest.
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E.
Duwamish language
The Duwamish language is a nearly extinct Coast Salish language traditionally spoken by the Duwamish people of the Seattle area in Washington State.
- 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: Chehalis language Target entity description: The Chehalis language is a now-extinct Salishan language once spoken by the Chehalis people of western Washington State in the Pacific Northwest.
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A.
Quinault language
The Quinault language is a critically endangered Native American language of the Salishan family traditionally spoken by the Quinault people of western Washington State.
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B.
Cowlitz language
The Cowlitz language is an Indigenous Salishan language of the Pacific Northwest historically spoken by the Cowlitz people of what is now southwestern Washington State.
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C.
Klallam language
The Klallam language is an Indigenous Coast Salish language of the Pacific Northwest, traditionally spoken by the Klallam (S'Klallam) people of the Strait of Juan de Fuca region in Washington State and Vancouver Island.
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D.
Wasco-Wishram language
The Wasco-Wishram language is a nearly extinct Native American language of the Chinookan family traditionally spoken along the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest.
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E.
Duwamish language
The Duwamish language is a nearly extinct Coast Salish language traditionally spoken by the Duwamish people of the Seattle area in Washington State.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Salishan language
ⓘ
extinct language ⓘ indigenous language of North America ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Chehalis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tsihalis ⓘ |
| associatedPeople | Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| documentedIn | field notes by linguists of Salishan languages ⓘ |
| endonym | Łəw̓ál̕məš (for Lower Chehalis, sometimes associated) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Chehalis people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| extinctionReason | language shift to English ⓘ |
| familyColor | American ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Lower Chehalis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Upper Chehalis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticFeature |
predicate-initial word order tendencies
ⓘ
reduplication ⓘ use of lexical suffixes ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
glottalized consonants
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rich consonant inventory ⓘ |
| hasTypologicalFeature |
complex verb morphology
ⓘ
ergative-like alignment patterns ⓘ head-marking ⓘ polysynthetic morphology ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | cea ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Coast Salish subgroup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Coastal Salish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageCodeType | ISO 639-3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Salishan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Washington State NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Cowlitz language
ⓘ
Halkomelem language NERFINISHED ⓘ Lushootseed language NERFINISHED ⓘ Squamish language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Chehalis people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Pacific Northwest
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
western Washington State ⓘ |
| status | extinct ⓘ |
| subfamily | Coast Salish languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedHistoricallyFor |
ceremonial speech
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everyday communication among Chehalis people ⓘ oral tradition ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
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surface form:
Latin script
|
How these facts were elicited
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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: Chehalis language Description of subject: The Chehalis language is a now-extinct Salishan language once spoken by the Chehalis people of western Washington State in the Pacific Northwest.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.