Nomlaki language
E432291
The Nomlaki language is an endangered Native American language traditionally spoken by the Nomlaki people of northern California.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nomlaki language canonical | 10 |
| Wintu-Nomlaki language | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4322344 — 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: Nomlaki language Context triple: [California Penutian languages, hasPart, Nomlaki language]
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A.
Opata language
The Opata language is an extinct Uto-Aztecan language once spoken by the Opata people of northern Mexico, particularly in the present-day state of Sonora.
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B.
Lakalai language
The Lakalai language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Lakalai people of New Britain in Papua New Guinea.
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C.
Mampruli language
Mampruli is a Gur language spoken primarily by the Mamprusi people in northern Ghana and parts of neighboring West African countries.
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D.
Saho language
The Saho language is an Afroasiatic Cushitic language spoken primarily by the Saho people in Eritrea and northern Ethiopia.
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E.
Lamaholot language
The Lamaholot language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in eastern Flores and nearby islands in Indonesia, known for its numerous dialects and complex verbal morphology.
- 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: Nomlaki language Target entity description: The Nomlaki language is an endangered Native American language traditionally spoken by the Nomlaki people of northern California.
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A.
Opata language
The Opata language is an extinct Uto-Aztecan language once spoken by the Opata people of northern Mexico, particularly in the present-day state of Sonora.
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B.
Lakalai language
The Lakalai language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Lakalai people of New Britain in Papua New Guinea.
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C.
Mampruli language
Mampruli is a Gur language spoken primarily by the Mamprusi people in northern Ghana and parts of neighboring West African countries.
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D.
Saho language
The Saho language is an Afroasiatic Cushitic language spoken primarily by the Saho people in Eritrea and northern Ethiopia.
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E.
Lamaholot language
The Lamaholot language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in eastern Flores and nearby islands in Indonesia, known for its numerous dialects and complex verbal morphology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Native American language
ⓘ
Wintuan language ⓘ endangered language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Central Wintun
ⓘ
Noamlakee ⓘ Nomlaki Wintun ⓘ
linked to:
Central Wintun
|
| associatedPeople | Nomlaki ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Native languages of California ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| documentationStatus | limited documentation ⓘ |
| endangermentCause | language shift to English ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Nomlaki people ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | noml1238 (reported in some linguistic databases) ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length (reported for Wintuan languages)
ⓘ
rich consonant inventory (reported for Wintuan languages) ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | nol ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Penutian (proposed)
ⓘ
linked to:
Penutian languages
Wintuan languages ⓘ |
| linguisticArea | California linguistic area ⓘ |
| neighboringLanguage |
Patwin language
ⓘ
Wintu language ⓘ |
| partOf |
Wintun linguistic group
ⓘ
linked to:
Southern Wintun
|
| region | Sacramento Valley ⓘ |
| revitalizationStatus | subject of language revitalization efforts ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
northern California ⓘ
linked to:
Northern California
|
| status | endangered ⓘ |
| typologicalFeature |
agglutinative morphology
ⓘ
head-marking ⓘ |
| wordOrder | SOV (subject–object–verb) (reported) ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin script
ⓘ
linked to:
Latin alphabet
|
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: Nomlaki language Description of subject: The Nomlaki language is an endangered Native American language traditionally spoken by the Nomlaki people of northern California.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Nomlaki language