Tzotzil
E341783
Tzotzil is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Tzotzil people in the highlands of Chiapas in southern Mexico.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tzotzil Maya | 7 |
| Tzotzil canonical | 6 |
| Tzotzil language | 3 |
| Chamula Tzotzil | 1 |
| Zinacantán Tzotzil | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3266165 — 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: Tzotzil Context triple: [Chiapas, containsIndigenousLanguage, Tzotzil]
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A.
Tzeltal Maya
The Tzeltal Maya are an indigenous Maya people of the Chiapas highlands in southern Mexico, known for their distinct Mayan language, traditional agriculture, and rich textile and ritual practices.
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B.
Kaqchikel
Kaqchikel is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Kaqchikel people in the central highlands of Guatemala.
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C.
Yucatec Maya
Yucatec Maya is a Mayan language spoken primarily on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, especially among indigenous communities in states like Yucatán, Quintana Roo, and Campeche.
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D.
Zapotec
The Zapotec are an indigenous Mesoamerican people primarily from the Oaxaca region of southern Mexico, known for their ancient civilization, distinctive language family, and rich cultural traditions.
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E.
Chontal of Tabasco
The Chontal of Tabasco are an indigenous Maya-related people of southeastern Mexico known for their distinct language, traditional agriculture and fishing practices, and rich cultural heritage along the Grijalva River and Gulf coast.
- 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: Tzotzil Target entity description: Tzotzil is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Tzotzil people in the highlands of Chiapas in southern Mexico.
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A.
Tzeltal Maya
The Tzeltal Maya are an indigenous Maya people of the Chiapas highlands in southern Mexico, known for their distinct Mayan language, traditional agriculture, and rich textile and ritual practices.
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B.
Kaqchikel
Kaqchikel is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Kaqchikel people in the central highlands of Guatemala.
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C.
Yucatec Maya
Yucatec Maya is a Mayan language spoken primarily on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, especially among indigenous communities in states like Yucatán, Quintana Roo, and Campeche.
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D.
Zapotec
The Zapotec are an indigenous Mesoamerican people primarily from the Oaxaca region of southern Mexico, known for their ancient civilization, distinctive language family, and rich cultural traditions.
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E.
Chontal of Tabasco
The Chontal of Tabasco are an indigenous Maya-related people of southeastern Mexico known for their distinct language, traditional agriculture and fishing practices, and rich cultural heritage along the Grijalva River and Gulf coast.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mayan language
ⓘ
indigenous language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| alignmentType | ergative–absolutive ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo | Tzeltal ⓘ |
| country | Mexico ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| family |
Mayan languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Mayan language family
|
| glottocode | tzot1259 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName | Batsʼi kʼop ⓘ |
| hasCulturalAssociation |
Mayan civilization
ⓘ
Tzotzil traditional religion ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
Tzotzil
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Chamula Tzotzil
Chenalhó Tzotzil ⓘ San Andrés Larráinzar Tzotzil ⓘ Venustiano Carranza Tzotzil ⓘ Tzotzil self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Zinacantán Tzotzil
|
| hasLiteraryTradition | oral tradition ⓘ |
| hasLoanwordsFrom | Spanish ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
glottalized consonants
ⓘ
tone or pitch contrasts in some dialects ⓘ |
| hasScriptUsage | Latin-based orthographies standardized in Mexico ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder |
VOS
ⓘ
VSO ⓘ |
| iso639-3 | tzo ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Western Mayan ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Maya peoples
ⓘ
surface form:
Mayan
|
| morphologicalType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| primaryRegion |
Chiapas Highlands
ⓘ
surface form:
highlands of Chiapas
|
| recognizedAs | national indigenous language of Mexico ⓘ |
| region | southern Mexico ⓘ |
| regulatedBy | Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Tzotzil people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Chiapas
ⓘ
Mexico ⓘ |
| spokenInMunicipality |
Chenalhó
ⓘ
Huixtán ⓘ San Andrés Larráinzar ⓘ San Juan Chamula ⓘ Venustiano Carranza ⓘ Zinacantán ⓘ |
| subfamily | Tzeltalan branch ⓘ |
| usedFor |
daily communication
ⓘ
oral literature ⓘ traditional rituals ⓘ |
| usedIn |
bilingual education programs in Chiapas
ⓘ
local community media in Chiapas ⓘ radio broadcasts in Chiapas ⓘ |
| 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: Tzotzil Description of subject: Tzotzil is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Tzotzil people in the highlands of Chiapas in southern Mexico.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tzotzil Maya
this entity surface form:
Tzotzil language
this entity surface form:
Tzotzil language
this entity surface form:
Tzotzil Maya
this entity surface form:
Tzotzil Maya
this entity surface form:
Tzotzil Maya
this entity surface form:
Tzotzil Maya
this entity surface form:
Tzotzil Maya
this entity surface form:
Tzotzil language
this entity surface form:
Chamula Tzotzil
this entity surface form:
Zinacantán Tzotzil
this entity surface form:
Tzotzil Maya