Crow language
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Crow language is a Native American Siouan language traditionally spoken by the Crow people of the north-central United States, particularly in Montana.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Crow language canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2567499 — 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: Crow language Context triple: [Crow, language, Crow language]
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A.
Fox language
Fox language is a Native American Algonquian language traditionally spoken by the Meskwaki (Fox), Sauk, and Kickapoo peoples of the central United States.
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B.
Fur language
The Fur language is an Eastern Sudanic language spoken primarily by the Fur people of western Sudan, especially in the Darfur region.
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C.
Mon language
Mon language is an Austroasiatic language historically spoken in parts of Myanmar and Thailand, notable for its ancient literary tradition and influence on regional scripts and cultures.
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D.
Bagirmi language
The Bagirmi language is a Central Sudanic language spoken primarily in Chad by the Bagirmi people, known for its role as a regional lingua franca and its rich oral tradition.
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E.
Minionese
Minionese is the playful, nonsensical-sounding fictional language spoken by the Minions in the Despicable Me franchise, mixing words and sounds from various real-world 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: Crow language Target entity description: Crow language is a Native American Siouan language traditionally spoken by the Crow people of the north-central United States, particularly in Montana.
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A.
Fox language
Fox language is a Native American Algonquian language traditionally spoken by the Meskwaki (Fox), Sauk, and Kickapoo peoples of the central United States.
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B.
Fur language
The Fur language is an Eastern Sudanic language spoken primarily by the Fur people of western Sudan, especially in the Darfur region.
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C.
Mon language
Mon language is an Austroasiatic language historically spoken in parts of Myanmar and Thailand, notable for its ancient literary tradition and influence on regional scripts and cultures.
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D.
Bagirmi language
The Bagirmi language is a Central Sudanic language spoken primarily in Chad by the Bagirmi people, known for its role as a regional lingua franca and its rich oral tradition.
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E.
Minionese
Minionese is the playful, nonsensical-sounding fictional language spoken by the Minions in the Despicable Me franchise, mixing words and sounds from various real-world languages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Native American language
ⓘ
Siouan language ⓘ endangered language ⓘ |
| autonym | Apsáalooke ⓘ |
| basicWordOrder | SOV ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo | Hidatsa language ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| culturalSignificance |
marker of Crow identity
ⓘ
vehicle of traditional knowledge ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Crow people ⓘ |
| glottocode | crow1244 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Hidatsa language
ⓘ
surface form:
Apsáalooke language
|
| hasGrammaticalFeature |
classifiers in verbs
ⓘ
noun incorporation ⓘ obligatory verb morphology for subjects ⓘ postpositions ⓘ switch-reference system ⓘ verb affixation for person and number ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticFeature |
directional and locative verb prefixes
ⓘ
evidentiality distinctions ⓘ rich verbal morphology ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType |
agglutinative
ⓘ
polysynthetic ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
nasal vowels ⓘ tone ⓘ |
| hasRevitalizationEffort |
adult education courses
ⓘ
community immersion programs ⓘ dictionary and grammar projects ⓘ language classes for children ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | cro ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Siouan languages ⓘ |
| primaryCommunity | Crow Indian Reservation ⓘ |
| primaryState | Montana ⓘ |
| region |
Montana
ⓘ
north-central United States ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Crow people ⓘ |
| status |
revitalized language
ⓘ
threatened ⓘ |
| subfamilyOf |
Crow–Hidatsa branch
ⓘ
Iowa-Otoe-Missouria language ⓘ
surface form:
Missouri River Siouan languages
|
| taughtAt | Little Big Horn College ⓘ |
| taughtIn | Crow Reservation schools ⓘ |
| usedBy | tribal government of the Crow Nation ⓘ |
| usedIn |
oral storytelling
ⓘ
songs ⓘ traditional ceremonies ⓘ |
| 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: Crow language Description of subject: Crow language is a Native American Siouan language traditionally spoken by the Crow people of the north-central United States, particularly in Montana.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.