Qʼeqchiʼ
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Qʼeqchiʼ is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Qʼeqchiʼ people in Guatemala and neighboring regions of Central America.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4069684 — 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: Qʼeqchiʼ Context triple: [Petén Department, hasIndigenousLanguage, Qʼeqchiʼ]
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A.
Qechuyoq
Qechuyoq is the principal complex within the Inca agricultural-terracing site of Moray in Peru, known for its concentric circular depressions used for sophisticated crop experimentation.
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B.
Qʼanjobʼal
Qʼanjobʼal is an indigenous Mayan language spoken primarily by the Qʼanjobʼal people in the highlands of northwestern Guatemala.
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C.
Chʼol
Chʼol is a Mayan language spoken primarily in the Mexican states of Chiapas and Tabasco by the Chʼol people, known for its rich verbal morphology and importance to contemporary Maya culture.
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D.
Quechuan
Quechuan is a major indigenous language family of the Andes, best known for including Quechua, the language historically associated with the Inca Empire and still widely spoken across several South American countries.
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E.
Chukchucha
Chukchucha is a village-level settlement located on Car Nicobar Island in the Nicobar district of India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
- 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: Qʼeqchiʼ Target entity description: Qʼeqchiʼ is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Qʼeqchiʼ people in Guatemala and neighboring regions of Central America.
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A.
Qechuyoq
Qechuyoq is the principal complex within the Inca agricultural-terracing site of Moray in Peru, known for its concentric circular depressions used for sophisticated crop experimentation.
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B.
Qʼanjobʼal
Qʼanjobʼal is an indigenous Mayan language spoken primarily by the Qʼanjobʼal people in the highlands of northwestern Guatemala.
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C.
Chʼol
Chʼol is a Mayan language spoken primarily in the Mexican states of Chiapas and Tabasco by the Chʼol people, known for its rich verbal morphology and importance to contemporary Maya culture.
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D.
Quechuan
Quechuan is a major indigenous language family of the Andes, best known for including Quechua, the language historically associated with the Inca Empire and still widely spoken across several South American countries.
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E.
Chukchucha
Chukchucha is a village-level settlement located on Car Nicobar Island in the Nicobar district of India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mayan language
ⓘ
indigenous language ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Itza Maya
ⓘ
surface form:
Itzaʼ Maya
Mopan Maya ⓘ Yucatec Maya ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Qʼeqchiʼ people ⓘ |
| family |
Mayan languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Mayan language family
|
| glottocode | qeqc1242 ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Cahabón Qʼeqchiʼ
ⓘ
Cobán ⓘ
surface form:
Cobán Qʼeqchiʼ
Lanquin ⓘ
surface form:
Lanquin Qʼeqchiʼ
San Pedro Carchá ⓘ
surface form:
San Pedro Carchá Qʼeqchiʼ
|
| hasFeature |
agglutinative morphology
ⓘ
ergative–absolutive alignment ⓘ glottalized consonants ⓘ head-marking grammar ⓘ rich consonant inventory ⓘ verb–initial word order ⓘ vowel length contrast ⓘ |
| hasLoanwordsFrom | Spanish ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature | complex verbal inflection ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive glottalization of stops and affricates
ⓘ
five-vowel system with length distinction ⓘ |
| hasSyntacticFeature | person marking on verbs for both subject and object ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | kek ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Maya civilization
ⓘ
surface form:
Mayan
|
| languageStatus |
subject to pressure from Spanish
ⓘ
vigorous use in many communities ⓘ |
| macrolanguage |
Mayan languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Maya languages
|
| primaryRegion |
Alta Verapaz Department
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Baja Verapaz Department NERFINISHED ⓘ Izabal Department NERFINISHED ⓘ Petén Department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regulatingBody | Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala ⓘ |
| scriptDirection | left-to-right ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Belize
ⓘ
El Salvador ⓘ Guatemala ⓘ Honduras ⓘ Mexico ⓘ |
| subfamily |
Eastern Mayan branch
ⓘ
Qʼanjobʼalan branch ⓘ
surface form:
Qʼanjobalan–Chujean branch
|
| usedFor |
daily communication
ⓘ
local radio broadcasting ⓘ oral literature ⓘ traditional ceremonies ⓘ |
| usedInEducation | bilingual 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: Qʼeqchiʼ Description of subject: Qʼeqchiʼ is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Qʼeqchiʼ people in Guatemala and neighboring regions of Central America.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Qeqchiʼ