Southern Numic
E16345
Southern Numic is a branch of the Numic group of Uto-Aztecan languages spoken in parts of the southwestern United States.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Southern Numic canonical | 10 |
| Southern Numic languages | 5 |
| Southern Paiute language | 3 |
| Southern Numic peoples | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T138750 — 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: Southern Numic Context triple: [Chemehuevi language, subfamily, Southern Numic]
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A.
Southern Sierra Miwok
The Southern Sierra Miwok are a Native American people of California whose traditional homeland includes the Yosemite Valley and surrounding Sierra Nevada foothills.
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B.
Hokan languages
Hokan languages are a proposed but controversial grouping of several Native American language families of the western United States and Mexico that share certain typological and lexical similarities.
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C.
Yuman–Cochimí languages
Yuman–Cochimí languages are a group of closely related Indigenous languages historically spoken in the Baja California Peninsula and the lower Colorado River region of northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States.
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D.
Quechan people
The Quechan people are a Native American tribe traditionally living along the lower Colorado River in what is now southeastern California and southwestern Arizona, known for their rich oral traditions, agriculture, and riverine culture.
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E.
Cahuilla people
The Cahuilla people are a Native American tribe indigenous to inland Southern California, traditionally inhabiting desert and mountain regions and known for their complex social organization, basketry, and adaptation to arid environments.
- 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: Southern Numic Target entity description: Southern Numic is a branch of the Numic group of Uto-Aztecan languages spoken in parts of the southwestern United States.
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A.
Southern Sierra Miwok
The Southern Sierra Miwok are a Native American people of California whose traditional homeland includes the Yosemite Valley and surrounding Sierra Nevada foothills.
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B.
Hokan languages
Hokan languages are a proposed but controversial grouping of several Native American language families of the western United States and Mexico that share certain typological and lexical similarities.
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C.
Yuman–Cochimí languages
Yuman–Cochimí languages are a group of closely related Indigenous languages historically spoken in the Baja California Peninsula and the lower Colorado River region of northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States.
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D.
Quechan people
The Quechan people are a Native American tribe traditionally living along the lower Colorado River in what is now southeastern California and southwestern Arizona, known for their rich oral traditions, agriculture, and riverine culture.
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E.
Cahuilla people
The Cahuilla people are a Native American tribe indigenous to inland Southern California, traditionally inhabiting desert and mountain regions and known for their complex social organization, basketry, and adaptation to arid environments.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Uto-Aztecan language branch
ⓘ
branch of Numic languages ⓘ language subgroup ⓘ |
| classificationStatus | generally accepted subgroup within Numic ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus |
many member languages endangered
ⓘ
some member languages severely endangered ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | Uto-Aztecan linguistics ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName | Southern Numic branch ⓘ |
| hasAncestor |
Proto-Numic
ⓘ
Proto-Uto-Aztecan ⓘ |
| hasISO639_5Code | azc-num-sou ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
complex verbal morphology
ⓘ
productive derivational morphology ⓘ |
| hasNotableResearcher |
Lyle Campbell
ⓘ
Marianne Mithun ⓘ Wick R. Miller ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Chemehuevi
ⓘ
Colorado River Numic ⓘ Kawaiisu ⓘ Southern Paiute people ⓘ
surface form:
Southern Paiute
Ute people ⓘ
surface form:
Ute
Chemehuevi ⓘ
surface form:
Ute-Chemehuevi
|
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length in many varieties
ⓘ
rich consonant inventory in many varieties ⓘ |
| hasSyntacticFeature |
relatively free word order
ⓘ
tendency toward SOV order ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Numic ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Uto-Aztecan ⓘ |
| partOf | Numic branch of Uto-Aztecan ⓘ |
| region |
Lower Colorado River region
ⓘ
surface form:
Colorado River region
Great Basin ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Arizona
ⓘ
California, United States ⓘ
surface form:
California
Colorado ⓘ Nevada ⓘ southwestern United States ⓘ
surface form:
Southwestern United States
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
Utah ⓘ |
| studiedBy | linguistics ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Numic
ⓘ
Uto-Aztecan ⓘ
surface form:
Uto-Aztecan languages
|
| typology |
agglutinative language
ⓘ
head-marking language ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Chemehuevi people
ⓘ
Kawaiisu people ⓘ Southern Paiute people ⓘ Ute people ⓘ |
| writingSystem | 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: Southern Numic Description of subject: Southern Numic is a branch of the Numic group of Uto-Aztecan languages spoken in parts of the southwestern United States.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Chemehuevi language
this entity surface form:
Southern Paiute language
this entity surface form:
Southern Paiute language
this entity surface form:
Southern Paiute language
this entity surface form:
Southern Numic languages
this entity surface form:
Southern Numic languages
this entity surface form:
Southern Numic languages
this entity surface form:
Southern Numic peoples
this entity surface form:
Southern Numic languages
this entity surface form:
Southern Numic languages