Hiaki language
E1040759
Hiaki language is an Uto-Aztecan language spoken primarily by the Yaqui (Hiaki) people of northern Mexico and the southwestern United States.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hiaki language canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13427364 — 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: Hiaki language Context triple: [Yaqui language, hasAlternativeName, Hiaki language]
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A.
Jahai language
The Jahai language is an indigenous Mon–Khmer language spoken by the Jahai people, a small hunter-gatherer community in the Malay Peninsula.
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B.
Mikasuki language
The Mikasuki language is a Native American Muskogean language traditionally spoken by the Miccosukee and Seminole peoples of Florida.
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C.
Keiga language
The Keiga language is a Kadu (Kadugli) language spoken by the Keiga people in the Nuba Mountains region of Sudan.
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D.
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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E.
Kawaiisu language
Kawaiisu language is an endangered Uto-Aztecan language traditionally spoken by the Kawaiisu people of southern California.
- 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: Hiaki language Target entity description: Hiaki language is an Uto-Aztecan language spoken primarily by the Yaqui (Hiaki) people of northern Mexico and the southwestern United States.
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A.
Jahai language
The Jahai language is an indigenous Mon–Khmer language spoken by the Jahai people, a small hunter-gatherer community in the Malay Peninsula.
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B.
Mikasuki language
The Mikasuki language is a Native American Muskogean language traditionally spoken by the Miccosukee and Seminole peoples of Florida.
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C.
Keiga language
The Keiga language is a Kadu (Kadugli) language spoken by the Keiga people in the Nuba Mountains region of Sudan.
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D.
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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E.
Kawaiisu language
Kawaiisu language is an endangered Uto-Aztecan language traditionally spoken by the Kawaiisu people of southern California.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Uto-Aztecan language
ⓘ
indigenous language of the Americas ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| alternateName | Yaqui language ⓘ |
| autonymOfPeople | Hiaki ⓘ |
| country |
Mexico
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| endangermentFactors |
language shift to English
ⓘ
language shift to Spanish ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Yaqui people ⓘ |
| geneticRelation |
related to Mayo language
ⓘ
related to other Cahitan languages ⓘ related to other Uto-Aztecan languages ⓘ |
| hasDomain |
everyday communication in some Yaqui communities
ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ ritual and ceremonial speech ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticResearch |
documented in descriptive grammars
ⓘ
documented in dictionaries ⓘ |
| hasLoanwordsFrom | Spanish ⓘ |
| hasOrthographicStandard | community-based orthographies used in Yaqui communities ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
rich consonant inventory ⓘ tone-like pitch accent (analyzed by some linguists) ⓘ |
| isTaughtIn | some community and bilingual education programs ⓘ |
| languageCodeISO639-3 | yaq ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Uto-Aztecan language family ⓘ |
| morphology | polysynthetic tendencies ⓘ |
| nativeName | Hiaki ⓘ |
| region |
northern Mexico
ⓘ
southwestern United States ⓘ |
| revitalizationEffort |
community language classes
ⓘ
documentation projects by linguists and community members ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Arizona
ⓘ
Mexico ⓘ Sonora ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| status |
minority language in Mexico
ⓘ
minority language in the United States ⓘ threatened language ⓘ |
| subfamily | Cahitan branch ⓘ |
| typology | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Yaqui communities in Arizona
ⓘ
Yaqui communities in Sonora ⓘ |
| wordOrder | SOV-dominant ⓘ |
| 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: Hiaki language Description of subject: Hiaki language is an Uto-Aztecan language spoken primarily by the Yaqui (Hiaki) people of northern Mexico and the southwestern United States.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.