Quichean–Mamean
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Quichean–Mamean is a branch of the Mayan language family that includes several closely related indigenous languages spoken in the highlands of Guatemala.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Quichean–Mamean canonical | 2 |
| Greater Mamean | 1 |
| Quichean | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4069549 — 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: Quichean–Mamean Context triple: [Kaqchikel, subfamily, Quichean–Mamean]
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A.
Roux
Roux is a residential neighborhood located within the municipality of Chêne-Bougeries in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland.
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B.
Bitchois
Bitchois is the French demonym for inhabitants of the town of Bitche in northeastern France.
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C.
Fages
Fages is a Spanish surname most notably associated with Pedro Fages, an 18th-century Spanish soldier and colonial administrator in California.
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D.
Bondoufle
Bondoufle is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, located in the Essonne department in Île-de-France, France.
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E.
Paremoude
Paremoude is the eighth month of the Coptic calendar, corresponding roughly to April in the Gregorian calendar and associated with the season of Shemu (harvest).
- 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: Quichean–Mamean Target entity description: Quichean–Mamean is a branch of the Mayan language family that includes several closely related indigenous languages spoken in the highlands of Guatemala.
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A.
Roux
Roux is a residential neighborhood located within the municipality of Chêne-Bougeries in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland.
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B.
Bitchois
Bitchois is the French demonym for inhabitants of the town of Bitche in northeastern France.
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C.
Fages
Fages is a Spanish surname most notably associated with Pedro Fages, an 18th-century Spanish soldier and colonial administrator in California.
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D.
Bondoufle
Bondoufle is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, located in the Essonne department in Île-de-France, France.
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E.
Paremoude
Paremoude is the eighth month of the Coptic calendar, corresponding roughly to April in the Gregorian calendar and associated with the season of Shemu (harvest).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mayan language branch
ⓘ
branch of language family ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution |
Guatemala
ⓘ
Guatemala Highlands ⓘ
surface form:
Guatemalan highlands
southern Mexico ⓘ |
| hasAncestor |
Proto-Mayan
ⓘ
surface form:
Proto-Mayan language
|
| hasLinguisticFeature |
complex verbal morphology
ⓘ
glottalized consonants ⓘ rich aspectual system ⓘ |
| hasProtoLanguage |
Quichean–Mamean languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Proto-Quichean–Mamean
|
| hasSubbranch |
Mamean
ⓘ
Quichean–Mamean self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Quichean
|
| includesLanguage |
Achiʼ language
ⓘ
surface form:
Achi language
Akatek language ⓘ Awakatek language ⓘ Chuj language ⓘ Ixil language ⓘ Jakaltek language ⓘ Kaqchikel ⓘ
surface form:
Kaqchikel language
Kʼicheʼ language ⓘ Mam language ⓘ Poqomam language ⓘ Poqomchiʼ language ⓘ Qʼanjobʼal language ⓘ Sakapultek language ⓘ Sipakapense language ⓘ Tektiteko language ⓘ
surface form:
Tektitek language
Tojol-abʼal language ⓘ Tzʼutujil language ⓘ Uspantek language ⓘ |
| isIndigenousTo |
Guatemala
ⓘ
Mesoamerica ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Mayan ⓘ |
| linguisticClassificationLevel | subfamily ⓘ |
| partOf |
Mayan languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Mayan language family
|
| region | Mesoamerica ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Maya peoples ⓘ |
| subgroupOf | Mayan languages ⓘ |
| typologicalFeature |
ergative–absolutive alignment
ⓘ
head-marking morphology ⓘ verb–initial basic word order ⓘ |
| usedIn |
local education and literacy programs
ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ |
| 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: Quichean–Mamean Description of subject: Quichean–Mamean is a branch of the Mayan language family that includes several closely related indigenous languages spoken in the highlands of Guatemala.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Quichean