Duwamish language
E300798
Coast Salish language
Native American language
endangered language
indigenous language of North America
The Duwamish language is a nearly extinct Coast Salish language traditionally spoken by the Duwamish people of the Seattle area in Washington State.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Duwamish language canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2816364 — 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: Duwamish language Context triple: [Princess Angeline, languageSpoken, Duwamish language]
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A.
Nooksack language
The Nooksack language is an Indigenous Coast Salish language traditionally spoken by the Nooksack people of the Pacific Northwest region of North America.
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B.
Lummi language
The Lummi language is an Indigenous Coast Salish language traditionally spoken by the Lummi people of the Pacific Northwest coast of North America.
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C.
Salishan languages
The Salishan languages are a family of Indigenous languages spoken by various First Nations and Native American peoples of the Pacific Northwest region of North America.
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D.
Siuslaw language
The Siuslaw language is an extinct Native American language once spoken along the central Oregon coast, often classified within the proposed Penutian language family.
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E.
Lushootseed
Lushootseed is a Coast Salish Native American language traditionally spoken in the Puget Sound region of Washington State.
- 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: Duwamish language Target entity description: The Duwamish language is a nearly extinct Coast Salish language traditionally spoken by the Duwamish people of the Seattle area in Washington State.
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A.
Nooksack language
The Nooksack language is an Indigenous Coast Salish language traditionally spoken by the Nooksack people of the Pacific Northwest region of North America.
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B.
Lummi language
The Lummi language is an Indigenous Coast Salish language traditionally spoken by the Lummi people of the Pacific Northwest coast of North America.
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C.
Salishan languages
The Salishan languages are a family of Indigenous languages spoken by various First Nations and Native American peoples of the Pacific Northwest region of North America.
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D.
Siuslaw language
The Siuslaw language is an extinct Native American language once spoken along the central Oregon coast, often classified within the proposed Penutian language family.
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E.
Lushootseed
Lushootseed is a Coast Salish Native American language traditionally spoken in the Puget Sound region of Washington State.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Coast Salish language
ⓘ
Native American language ⓘ endangered language ⓘ indigenous language of North America ⓘ |
| alternativeName | Dkhw’Duw’Absh language ⓘ |
| associatedCity | Seattle ⓘ |
| associatedPeople |
Duwamish people
ⓘ
surface form:
Duwamish tribe
|
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| culturalRole |
ceremonial language of the Duwamish people
ⓘ
oral tradition language of the Duwamish people ⓘ |
| endangermentCause |
English language dominance
ⓘ
assimilation policies ⓘ colonization ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
complex verb morphology
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prefixing morphology ⓘ rich consonant inventory ⓘ suffixing morphology ⓘ vowel length distinctions ⓘ |
| hasTypology |
head-marking language
ⓘ
polysynthetic language ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Salishan languages ⓘ |
| regionType | Pacific Northwest ⓘ |
| revitalizationStatus | subject of language revitalization efforts ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Duwamish people ⓘ |
| state | Washington ⓘ |
| status |
nearly extinct
ⓘ
severely endangered ⓘ |
| subFamily | Coast Salish languages ⓘ |
| traditionalRegion |
Puget Sound region
ⓘ
greater Seattle area ⓘ
surface form:
Seattle area
|
| 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: Duwamish language Description of subject: The Duwamish language is a nearly extinct Coast Salish language traditionally spoken by the Duwamish people of the Seattle area in Washington State.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.