Proto-Mayan
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Proto-Mayan is the reconstructed common ancestor of all Mayan languages, from which branches like Wastek and others historically developed.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Proto-Mayan canonical | 10 |
| Proto-Mayan language | 10 |
| Proto-Mayan (ancestral) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13124320 — 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: Proto-Mayan Context triple: [Wastek, hasAncestralLanguage, Proto-Mayan]
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Proto-Yucatecan
Proto-Yucatecan is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Yucatecan branch of Mayan languages, from which modern languages like Yucatec Maya, Itzaʼ, and Mopan are derived.
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Proto-Aztecan
Proto-Aztecan is the hypothesized common ancestor language of the Aztecan (Uto-Aztecan) language family, reconstructed through comparative analysis of its descendant languages.
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Mayan languages
Mayan languages are a family of indigenous languages spoken primarily in southern Mexico and Central America, known for their ancient hieroglyphic writing and continuity from the Classic Maya civilization to modern Maya communities.
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D.
Olmec language
The Olmec language is a proposed ancient Mesoamerican tongue thought to have been spoken by the Olmec civilization and possibly related to the Mixe–Zoquean language family.
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E.
Classical Maya language
Classical Maya language is the historical Mayan language used in inscriptions and literature of the ancient Maya civilization, especially during the Classic Period in Mesoamerica.
- 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: Proto-Mayan Target entity description: Proto-Mayan is the reconstructed common ancestor of all Mayan languages, from which branches like Wastek and others historically developed.
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A.
Proto-Yucatecan
Proto-Yucatecan is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Yucatecan branch of Mayan languages, from which modern languages like Yucatec Maya, Itzaʼ, and Mopan are derived.
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B.
Proto-Aztecan
Proto-Aztecan is the hypothesized common ancestor language of the Aztecan (Uto-Aztecan) language family, reconstructed through comparative analysis of its descendant languages.
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C.
Mayan languages
Mayan languages are a family of indigenous languages spoken primarily in southern Mexico and Central America, known for their ancient hieroglyphic writing and continuity from the Classic Maya civilization to modern Maya communities.
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D.
Olmec language
The Olmec language is a proposed ancient Mesoamerican tongue thought to have been spoken by the Olmec civilization and possibly related to the Mixe–Zoquean language family.
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E.
Classical Maya language
Classical Maya language is the historical Mayan language used in inscriptions and literature of the ancient Maya civilization, especially during the Classic Period in Mesoamerica.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
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: Proto-Mayan Description of subject: Proto-Mayan is the reconstructed common ancestor of all Mayan languages, from which branches like Wastek and others historically developed.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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