Cotoname language
E366760
The Cotoname language is an extinct indigenous language once spoken by the Cotoname people of northeastern Mexico and southern Texas, generally classified within the Coahuiltecan language group.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cotoname language canonical | 1 |
| Cotoname language (proposed) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3539199 — 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: Cotoname language Context triple: [Coahuiltecan languages, hasMember, Cotoname language]
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A.
Baoulé language
The Baoulé language is a Niger-Congo language spoken primarily by the Baoulé people of central Côte d'Ivoire.
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B.
Tati language
The Tati language is a group of closely related Northwestern Iranian dialects spoken primarily in parts of northwestern Iran and the Caucasus, noted for preserving many archaic features of Old Iranian.
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C.
Tsonga language
The Tsonga language is a Bantu language spoken primarily in southern Africa, especially in Mozambique, South Africa, Eswatini, and Zimbabwe.
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D.
Ngbandi language
The Ngbandi language is a Central Sudanic language spoken primarily in the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, known for being the linguistic source of the trade language Sango.
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E.
Banda-Ndélé language
The Banda-Ndélé language is a Central Sudanic language spoken by the Banda people, primarily in the Central African Republic.
- 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: Cotoname language Target entity description: The Cotoname language is an extinct indigenous language once spoken by the Cotoname people of northeastern Mexico and southern Texas, generally classified within the Coahuiltecan language group.
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A.
Baoulé language
The Baoulé language is a Niger-Congo language spoken primarily by the Baoulé people of central Côte d'Ivoire.
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B.
Tati language
The Tati language is a group of closely related Northwestern Iranian dialects spoken primarily in parts of northwestern Iran and the Caucasus, noted for preserving many archaic features of Old Iranian.
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C.
Tsonga language
The Tsonga language is a Bantu language spoken primarily in southern Africa, especially in Mozambique, South Africa, Eswatini, and Zimbabwe.
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D.
Ngbandi language
The Ngbandi language is a Central Sudanic language spoken primarily in the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, known for being the linguistic source of the trade language Sango.
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E.
Banda-Ndélé language
The Banda-Ndélé language is a Central Sudanic language spoken by the Banda people, primarily in the Central African Republic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Native American language
ⓘ
extinct language ⓘ indigenous language ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Cotomavi
ⓘ
Cotoname ⓘ Cotonan ⓘ |
| classificationStatus | uncertain ⓘ |
| country |
Mexico
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| documentedIn |
short texts
ⓘ
word lists ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | extinct language (no native speakers) ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Cotoname people ⓘ |
| extinction | 19th century ⓘ |
| glottologCode | coto1236 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Cotoname ⓘ |
| hasEthnologueEntry | yes ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticData | limited ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticFeature |
limited grammatical description
ⓘ
poorly attested lexicon ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | xcn ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
indigenous languages of Mexico
ⓘ
indigenous languages of the United States ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Coahuiltecan languages ⓘ |
| region |
northeastern Mexico
ⓘ
southern Texas ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Cotoname people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Tamaulipas
ⓘ
Texas ⓘ |
| status | extinct ⓘ |
| 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: Cotoname language Description of subject: The Cotoname language is an extinct indigenous language once spoken by the Cotoname people of northeastern Mexico and southern Texas, generally classified within the Coahuiltecan language group.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Cotoname language (proposed)