Pemon language
E208122
Pemon language is an indigenous Cariban language spoken primarily by the Pemon people of southeastern Venezuela and neighboring regions of Brazil and Guyana.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pemon language canonical | 3 |
| Panare (Eʼñepa) language | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1872688 — 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: Pemon language Context triple: [Carib languages, hasNotableLanguage, Pemon language]
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A.
Yucuna language
The Yucuna language is an indigenous Arawakan language spoken by the Yucuna people of the Colombian Amazon.
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B.
Piapoco language
The Piapoco language is an indigenous Arawakan language spoken by the Piapoco people of Colombia and Venezuela.
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C.
Enawené-Nawé language
The Enawené-Nawé language is an indigenous Arawakan language spoken by the Enawené-Nawé people of the Brazilian Amazon, known for its highly endangered status and rich oral tradition.
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D.
Asháninka language
The Asháninka language is an Arawakan language spoken by the Asháninka people of the Peruvian and Brazilian Amazon, known for its rich oral tradition and central role in the community’s cultural identity.
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E.
Jarawa language
The Jarawa language is an endangered Ongan language spoken by the indigenous Jarawa people of the Andaman Islands in India.
- 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: Pemon language Target entity description: Pemon language is an indigenous Cariban language spoken primarily by the Pemon people of southeastern Venezuela and neighboring regions of Brazil and Guyana.
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A.
Yucuna language
The Yucuna language is an indigenous Arawakan language spoken by the Yucuna people of the Colombian Amazon.
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B.
Piapoco language
The Piapoco language is an indigenous Arawakan language spoken by the Piapoco people of Colombia and Venezuela.
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C.
Enawené-Nawé language
The Enawené-Nawé language is an indigenous Arawakan language spoken by the Enawené-Nawé people of the Brazilian Amazon, known for its highly endangered status and rich oral tradition.
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D.
Asháninka language
The Asháninka language is an Arawakan language spoken by the Asháninka people of the Peruvian and Brazilian Amazon, known for its rich oral tradition and central role in the community’s cultural identity.
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E.
Jarawa language
The Jarawa language is an endangered Ongan language spoken by the indigenous Jarawa people of the Andaman Islands in India.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Cariban language
ⓘ
indigenous language ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| basicWordOrder | SOV ⓘ |
| country |
Bolívar State
ⓘ
surface form:
Bolívar state, Venezuela
|
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| glottocode | pemo1247 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Pemon
ⓘ
surface form:
Pemon-Carib
Pemón ⓘ |
| hasCaseMarking | postpositional ⓘ |
| hasClauseType | relative clauses formed with particles ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Arekuna
ⓘ
Ingarikó ⓘ Taurepán ⓘ |
| hasDocumentation | grammars and dictionaries produced by linguists and missionaries ⓘ |
| hasLexicalBorrowingFrom |
Portuguese language
ⓘ
surface form:
Portuguese
Spanish ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasNegationStrategy | uses particles for clausal negation ⓘ |
| hasNeighboringLanguage |
Akawaio language
ⓘ
Makushi language ⓘ
surface form:
Macushi language
Patamona language ⓘ |
| hasNumeralSystem | decimal-based with some traditional terms ⓘ |
| hasOrthographyStatus | standardized to a limited extent ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive nasalization
ⓘ
voiceless stops ⓘ |
| hasPronounSystem | distinguishes person and number ⓘ |
| hasSpeakerCommunity | indigenous communities in Canaima National Park area ⓘ |
| hasStressPattern | predominantly penultimate stress ⓘ |
| iso639-3Code | aoc ⓘ |
| isPartOf | indigenous cultural heritage of the Guiana Shield ⓘ |
| isTaughtIn | some primary schools in Pemon communities ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Carib
ⓘ
surface form:
Cariban
|
| region |
Roraima
ⓘ
surface form:
Roraima, Brazil
border areas of Guyana ⓘ southeastern Venezuela ⓘ |
| spokenBy |
Pemon
ⓘ
surface form:
Pemon people
|
| spokenIn |
Brazil
ⓘ
Gran Sabana ⓘ
surface form:
Gran Sabana region
British Guiana ⓘ
surface form:
Guyana
Venezuela ⓘ |
| subfamily | Venezuelan Carib ⓘ |
| usedFor |
daily communication
ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ ritual practices ⓘ |
| usedIn |
community education materials
ⓘ
local radio programs ⓘ |
| 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: Pemon language Description of subject: Pemon language is an indigenous Cariban language spoken primarily by the Pemon people of southeastern Venezuela and neighboring regions of Brazil and Guyana.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Panare (Eʼñepa) language