Southern Mam
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Southern Mam is a regional variety of the Mam Mayan language spoken primarily in parts of Guatemala.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Southern Mam canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4069612 — 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: Southern Mam Context triple: [Mam, hasDialect, Southern Mam]
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A.
Inland South
The Inland South is a cultural and geographic subregion of the Southern United States characterized by its inland location away from the coasts, a mix of Appalachian and Deep South influences, and a predominantly rural, agrarian heritage.
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B.
Upper South
The Upper South is a subregion of the United States generally referring to the northernmost tier of Southern states, often including Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, and sometimes parts of neighboring states, distinguished historically and culturally from the Deep South.
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C.
Southern United States
The Southern United States is a culturally distinct region of the country known for its historical ties to the Confederacy, unique traditions in music and cuisine, and a warm climate spanning from the Atlantic coast to the Gulf of Mexico.
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D.
Mid-South
Mid-South is a cultural and economic region of the south-central United States centered around Memphis and encompassing parts of Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, and nearby areas.
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E.
Southeastern
Southeastern is a British train operating company that runs passenger rail services across southeast London and the counties of Kent and East Sussex.
- 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: Southern Mam Target entity description: Southern Mam is a regional variety of the Mam Mayan language spoken primarily in parts of Guatemala.
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A.
Inland South
The Inland South is a cultural and geographic subregion of the Southern United States characterized by its inland location away from the coasts, a mix of Appalachian and Deep South influences, and a predominantly rural, agrarian heritage.
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B.
Southern Crescent
The Southern Crescent was a famed Southern Railway passenger train that provided luxurious long-distance service between Washington, D.C., and New Orleans during the mid-20th century.
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C.
Upper South
The Upper South is a subregion of the United States generally referring to the northernmost tier of Southern states, often including Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, and sometimes parts of neighboring states, distinguished historically and culturally from the Deep South.
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D.
Southern United States
The Southern United States is a culturally distinct region of the country known for its historical ties to the Confederacy, unique traditions in music and cuisine, and a warm climate spanning from the Atlantic coast to the Gulf of Mexico.
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E.
Mid-South
Mid-South is a cultural and economic region of the south-central United States centered around Memphis and encompassing parts of Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, and nearby areas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mayan language variety
ⓘ
regional variety of Mam ⓘ |
| basicWordOrder |
VOS
ⓘ
VSO ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| hasAlignmentType | ergative–absolutive ⓘ |
| hasDialectContinuumWith |
Central Mam
ⓘ
Northern Mam ⓘ |
| hasDocumentationType |
dictionaries
ⓘ
grammars ⓘ text collections ⓘ |
| hasGrammaticalFeature |
noun classifiers
ⓘ
relational nouns ⓘ rich aspect marking on verbs ⓘ set A and set B person markers ⓘ |
| hasLanguageAcademy | Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala ⓘ |
| hasLanguageCode | part of ISO 639-3 mam ⓘ |
| hasLexicalInfluenceFrom | Spanish ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasNeighboringLanguage |
Kʼicheʼ
ⓘ
Qʼanjobʼal ⓘ Tektitek ⓘ
surface form:
Tektiteko
|
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive tone absence
ⓘ
glottalized consonants ⓘ |
| hasSociolinguisticSituation | bilingualism with Spanish ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Mayan languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Mayan language family
|
| languageFamilyBranch |
Western Maya
ⓘ
surface form:
Western Mayan
|
| partOf | Mam macrolanguage ⓘ |
| regionType | highland language ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Mam people ⓘ |
| spokenInCountry | Guatemala ⓘ |
| spokenInRegion |
Huehuetenango Department
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Quetzaltenango Department NERFINISHED ⓘ San Marcos Department NERFINISHED ⓘ western Guatemala ⓘ |
| standardizationEffort | orthography development by Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf | Mam language ⓘ |
| subfamily |
Greater Mamean
ⓘ
Mamean ⓘ |
| usedInDomain |
everyday communication
ⓘ
local religious practices ⓘ traditional oral literature ⓘ |
| usedInEducation | bilingual intercultural education programs in Guatemala ⓘ |
| 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: Southern Mam Description of subject: Southern Mam is a regional variety of the Mam Mayan language spoken primarily in parts of Guatemala.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.