Lipan language
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The Lipan language is an extinct Southern Athabaskan language once spoken by the Lipan Apache people of the southern Great Plains and northern Mexico.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lipan language canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2336139 — 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: Lipan language Context triple: [Apache tribes, speaks, Lipan language]
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A.
Jingpo language
The Jingpo language is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken primarily by the Jingpo (Kachin) people in northern Myanmar and adjacent regions of China and India.
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B.
Kavalan language
The Kavalan language is an endangered Austronesian language of the indigenous Kavalan people of northeastern Taiwan.
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C.
Longgu language
The Longgu language is an Oceanic language spoken by communities in the Solomon Islands, belonging to the Southeast Solomonic branch of the Austronesian language family.
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D.
Banda-Langbas language
The Banda-Langbas language is a Central Sudanic language spoken by the Banda people in parts of the Central African Republic.
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E.
Isnag language
The Isnag language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Isnag people in the northern Cordillera region of Luzon in the Philippines.
- 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: Lipan language Target entity description: The Lipan language is an extinct Southern Athabaskan language once spoken by the Lipan Apache people of the southern Great Plains and northern Mexico.
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A.
Jingpo language
The Jingpo language is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken primarily by the Jingpo (Kachin) people in northern Myanmar and adjacent regions of China and India.
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B.
Kavalan language
The Kavalan language is an endangered Austronesian language of the indigenous Kavalan people of northeastern Taiwan.
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C.
Longgu language
The Longgu language is an Oceanic language spoken by communities in the Solomon Islands, belonging to the Southeast Solomonic branch of the Austronesian language family.
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D.
Banda-Langbas language
The Banda-Langbas language is a Central Sudanic language spoken by the Banda people in parts of the Central African Republic.
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E.
Isnag language
The Isnag language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Isnag people in the northern Cordillera region of Luzon in the Philippines.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Native American language
ⓘ
Southern Athabaskan language ⓘ extinct language ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Lipan Apache traditional culture
ⓘ
oral tradition of the Lipan Apache ⓘ |
| belongsToMacroFamily |
Na-Dene
ⓘ
surface form:
Na-Dene languages
|
| branchOf | Apachean languages ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Jicarilla language
ⓘ
Mescalero language ⓘ
surface form:
Mescalero-Chiricahua language
Western Apache language ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
Mexico
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| documentedBy |
Harry Hoijer
ⓘ
other 20th-century linguists ⓘ |
| documentedIn | word lists collected by early ethnographers ⓘ |
| endonym | Ndé language ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Lipan Apache ⓘ |
| extinctionCause |
language shift to English
ⓘ
language shift to Spanish ⓘ |
| glottocode | lipa1248 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Lipan Apache ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Lipan Apache language
ⓘ
Lipan Apache language ⓘ
surface form:
Ndé Apache language
|
| hasLinguisticTypology |
head-marking language
ⓘ
polysynthetic language ⓘ verb-heavy morphology ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
complex verb morphology
ⓘ
pronominal prefixes on verbs ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature | tonal contrasts (like other Southern Athabaskan languages) ⓘ |
| hasSubjectObjectMarking | on verb complex ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | relatively free word order ⓘ |
| iso639-3Code | apl ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Athabaskan
ⓘ
surface form:
Athabaskan languages
|
| languageOf | North America ⓘ |
| languageShiftTo |
English
ⓘ
Spanish ⓘ |
| region |
northern Mexico
ⓘ
southern Great Plains ⓘ |
| spokenBy |
Lipan Apache
ⓘ
surface form:
Lipan Apache people
|
| status | extinct ⓘ |
| subfamily |
Southern Athabaskan
ⓘ
surface form:
Southern Athabaskan languages
|
| usedFor |
ceremonial speech (historically)
ⓘ
everyday communication (historically) ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Chihuahua, Mexico
ⓘ
surface form:
Chihuahua (historically)
Coahuila ⓘ
surface form:
Coahuila (historically)
Nuevo León ⓘ
surface form:
Nuevo León (historically)
Coahuila y Tejas ⓘ
surface form:
Texas (historically)
|
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
How these facts were elicited
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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: Lipan language Description of subject: The Lipan language is an extinct Southern Athabaskan language once spoken by the Lipan Apache people of the southern Great Plains and northern Mexico.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.