Western Sámi language
E413551
Western Sámi language is a branch of the Uralic Sámi languages spoken in parts of northern Scandinavia, including varieties such as North, Lule, and Pite Sámi.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Western Sámi language canonical | 2 |
| Western Sami language | 1 |
| Western Sámi | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3713158 — 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: Western Sámi language Context triple: [Pite Sámi, subclassOf, Western Sámi language]
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A.
Eastern Sámi languages
Eastern Sámi languages are a small subgroup of Uralic Sámi languages spoken in parts of northern Russia and Finland, many of which are severely endangered or extinct.
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B.
Southern Sami language
Southern Sami is an endangered Uralic (Sami) language spoken by the Southern Sami people in parts of Norway and Sweden.
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C.
Northern Sami language
Northern Sami is the most widely spoken Sami language of the indigenous Sami people in northern parts of Norway, Sweden, and Finland.
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D.
Sámi languages
The Sámi languages are a group of Uralic Indigenous languages spoken by the Sámi people across northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia.
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E.
North Sámi
North Sámi is a Uralic language spoken by the Sámi people of northern Norway, Sweden, and Finland, and is the most widely used of the Sámi languages.
- 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: Western Sámi language Target entity description: Western Sámi language is a branch of the Uralic Sámi languages spoken in parts of northern Scandinavia, including varieties such as North, Lule, and Pite Sámi.
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A.
Eastern Sámi languages
Eastern Sámi languages are a small subgroup of Uralic Sámi languages spoken in parts of northern Russia and Finland, many of which are severely endangered or extinct.
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B.
Southern Sami language
Southern Sami is an endangered Uralic (Sami) language spoken by the Southern Sami people in parts of Norway and Sweden.
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C.
Northern Sami language
Northern Sami is the most widely spoken Sami language of the indigenous Sami people in northern parts of Norway, Sweden, and Finland.
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D.
Sámi languages
The Sámi languages are a group of Uralic Indigenous languages spoken by the Sámi people across northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia.
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E.
North Sámi
North Sámi is a Uralic language spoken by the Sámi people of northern Norway, Sweden, and Finland, and is the most widely used of the Sámi languages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Uralic language branch
ⓘ
branch of Sámi languages ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | several varieties endangered ⓘ |
| family |
Uralic languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Uralic language family
|
| hasAncestor |
Proto-Samic
ⓘ
surface form:
Proto-Samic language
Proto-Uralic language ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
consonant gradation
ⓘ
rich case system ⓘ vowel harmony ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Lule Sámi
ⓘ
surface form:
Lule Sámi language
Northern Sami language ⓘ
surface form:
North Sámi language
Pite Sámi ⓘ
surface form:
Pite Sámi language
|
| hasVariety |
Lule Sámi
ⓘ
surface form:
Lule Sámi language
North Sámi ⓘ
surface form:
North Sámi language
Pite Sámi language ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
| languageBranchOf | Sámi languages ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Western Sami languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Western Sámi subgroup
|
| partOf | Sámi language group ⓘ |
| region | Sápmi ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Central Sami languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Sámi languages
Eastern Sámi languages ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Finland
ⓘ
Norway ⓘ Sweden ⓘ northern Scandinavia ⓘ |
| status | minority language ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Sámi languages
ⓘ
Uralic languages ⓘ |
| typology | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Sámi
ⓘ
surface form:
Sámi people
|
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: Western Sámi language Description of subject: Western Sámi language is a branch of the Uralic Sámi languages spoken in parts of northern Scandinavia, including varieties such as North, Lule, and Pite Sámi.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Northern Sami
this entity surface form:
Western Sami language
this entity surface form:
Western Sámi