Jicarilla language
E284125
Apachean language
Athabaskan language
Native American language
indigenous language of the United States
Jicarilla language is an Athabaskan (Apachean) Native American language traditionally spoken by the Jicarilla Apache people of northern New Mexico.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jicarilla language canonical | 5 |
| Jicarilla Apache language | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2567396 — 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: Jicarilla language Context triple: [Apache, hasLanguage, Jicarilla language]
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A.
Mescalero language
The Mescalero language is an Eastern Southern Athabaskan language traditionally spoken by the Mescalero Apache people of the Southwestern United States.
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B.
Chiricahua language
The Chiricahua language is an Athabaskan language traditionally spoken by the Chiricahua Apache people of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.
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C.
Comanche language
The Comanche language is a Native American Uto-Aztecan language traditionally spoken by the Comanche people of the southern Plains, now critically endangered with few fluent speakers.
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D.
Yavapai language
The Yavapai language is an indigenous Native American language traditionally spoken by the Yavapai people of central and western Arizona.
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E.
Cocopah language
The Cocopah language is a Yuman language traditionally spoken by the Cocopah people of the lower Colorado River region in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.
- 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: Jicarilla language Target entity description: Jicarilla language is an Athabaskan (Apachean) Native American language traditionally spoken by the Jicarilla Apache people of northern New Mexico.
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A.
Mescalero language
The Mescalero language is an Eastern Southern Athabaskan language traditionally spoken by the Mescalero Apache people of the Southwestern United States.
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B.
Chiricahua language
The Chiricahua language is an Athabaskan language traditionally spoken by the Chiricahua Apache people of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.
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C.
Comanche language
The Comanche language is a Native American Uto-Aztecan language traditionally spoken by the Comanche people of the southern Plains, now critically endangered with few fluent speakers.
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D.
Yavapai language
The Yavapai language is an indigenous Native American language traditionally spoken by the Yavapai people of central and western Arizona.
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E.
Cocopah language
The Cocopah language is a Yuman language traditionally spoken by the Cocopah people of the lower Colorado River region in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Apachean language
ⓘ
Athabaskan language ⓘ Native American language ⓘ indigenous language of the United States ⓘ |
| associatedPeople |
Jicarilla Apache
ⓘ
surface form:
Jicarilla Apache Nation
|
| closelyRelatedTo |
Mescalero language
ⓘ
surface form:
Mescalero-Chiricahua language
Navajo language ⓘ Western Apache language ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| endangeredStatus |
severely endangered
ⓘ
threatened ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jicarilla Apache ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Abáachi Miizaa
ⓘ
Abáachi language ⓘ Abáachi mizaa ⓘ Jicarilla Apache ⓘ |
| hasConsonantInventoryType | rich consonant inventory ⓘ |
| hasGrammaticalFeature |
aspect marking on verbs
ⓘ
classifiers in the verb ⓘ complex verb morphology ⓘ directional prefixes ⓘ mode marking on verbs ⓘ pronominal prefixes on verbs ⓘ |
| hasMorphologyType | polysynthetic ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive tone
ⓘ
ejective consonants ⓘ nasalized vowels ⓘ |
| hasTypologicalFeature | tone or pitch accent ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | verb-final tendency ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | jic ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Na-Dene language family ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Athabaskan
ⓘ
surface form:
Athabaskan languages
|
| primaryState | New Mexico ⓘ |
| region |
Jicarilla Apache
ⓘ
surface form:
Jicarilla Apache Nation
|
| revitalizationEfforts |
community language programs
ⓘ
documentation projects ⓘ language classes in schools ⓘ |
| spokenBy |
Jicarilla Apache
ⓘ
surface form:
Jicarilla Apache people
|
| spokenIn |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
Northern New Mexico ⓘ
surface form:
northern New Mexico
|
| subgroupOf |
Apachean languages
ⓘ
Southern Athabaskan ⓘ
surface form:
Southern Athabaskan languages
|
| traditionalArea | northern New Mexico ⓘ |
| usedFor |
daily communication within the community
ⓘ
oral storytelling ⓘ 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: Jicarilla language Description of subject: Jicarilla language is an Athabaskan (Apachean) Native American language traditionally spoken by the Jicarilla Apache people of northern New Mexico.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Jicarilla Apache language