Glottolog
E231983
Glottolog is a comprehensive bibliographic and classification database of the world’s languages and dialects, maintained by linguists at the Max Planck Institute.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Glottolog canonical | 23 |
| Glottocode | 2 |
| Glottolog 4.x | 1 |
| Glottolog classifications | 1 |
| Glottolog database | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2084727 — 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: Glottolog Context triple: [Luo language, hasLinguisticClassificationSource, Glottolog]
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A.
Maipurean languages
The Maipurean languages are a major branch of the Arawakan language family, historically spoken across large areas of northern South America and the Caribbean.
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B.
Ellicean languages
Ellicean languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian language family spoken primarily in parts of Polynesia, including Tuvalu and surrounding island regions.
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C.
Zenati languages
The Zenati languages are a branch of the Berber language family spoken primarily in North Africa, especially across parts of Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia.
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D.
Atayalic languages
The Atayalic languages are a small subgroup of indigenous Austronesian languages spoken in northern Taiwan, primarily by the Atayal and Seediq peoples.
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E.
Indo-European phonology
Indo-European phonology is the branch of linguistics that reconstructs and analyzes the sound systems and sound changes of the Proto-Indo-European language and its descendant languages.
- 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: Glottolog Target entity description: Glottolog is a comprehensive bibliographic and classification database of the world’s languages and dialects, maintained by linguists at the Max Planck Institute.
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A.
Maipurean languages
The Maipurean languages are a major branch of the Arawakan language family, historically spoken across large areas of northern South America and the Caribbean.
-
B.
Ellicean languages
Ellicean languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian language family spoken primarily in parts of Polynesia, including Tuvalu and surrounding island regions.
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C.
Zenati languages
The Zenati languages are a branch of the Berber language family spoken primarily in North Africa, especially across parts of Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia.
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D.
Atayalic languages
The Atayalic languages are a small subgroup of indigenous Austronesian languages spoken in northern Taiwan, primarily by the Atayal and Seediq peoples.
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E.
Indo-European phonology
Indo-European phonology is the branch of linguistics that reconstructs and analyzes the sound systems and sound changes of the Proto-Indo-European language and its descendant languages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bibliographic database
ⓘ
language classification database ⓘ linguistic database ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
offer a genealogical classification of languages
ⓘ
provide comprehensive bibliographic coverage of the world’s languages ⓘ |
| basedIn | Leipzig ⓘ |
| comparesWith |
Ethnologue
ⓘ
surface form:
Ethnologue classification
ISO 639-3 language set ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| distinguishesFrom |
Ethnologue
ⓘ
ISO 639-3 ⓘ |
| field | linguistics ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
dialects
ⓘ
world languages ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Glottolog
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Glottocode
|
| hasCriterion | genealogical classification based on published sources ⓘ |
| hasDataFormat |
downloadable data
ⓘ
web interface ⓘ |
| hasNotableFeature |
assigns unique identifiers (Glottocodes) to languages and dialects
ⓘ
emphasizes bibliographic evidence for classification ⓘ |
| hasPart |
bibliographic records
ⓘ
classification trees ⓘ dialect entries ⓘ language entries ⓘ |
| hasUpdateFrequency | periodic ⓘ |
| hostedBy | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology ⓘ |
| isAccessibleAs |
online database
ⓘ
web application ⓘ |
| isOpenAccess | true ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
ⓘ
team of linguists ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution ⓘ |
| partOf | digital resources of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology ⓘ |
| provides |
bibliographic references
ⓘ
language classification ⓘ language identifiers ⓘ |
| publisher | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology ⓘ |
| subjectOf | linguistic research ⓘ |
| topic |
bibliography of linguistics
ⓘ
language documentation ⓘ language families ⓘ |
| usedBy |
historical linguists
ⓘ
language documenters ⓘ language typologists ⓘ linguists ⓘ |
| usesIdentifierScheme |
Glottolog
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Glottocode
|
| website | https://glottolog.org ⓘ |
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: Glottolog Description of subject: Glottolog is a comprehensive bibliographic and classification database of the world’s languages and dialects, maintained by linguists at the Max Planck Institute.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Luo language
this entity surface form:
Glottolog 4.x
this entity surface form:
Glottolog database
this entity surface form:
Glottocode
this entity surface form:
Glottocode
this entity surface form:
Glottolog classifications
subject surface form:
Oluta Popoluca