Southern Kʼicheʼ
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Southern Kʼicheʼ is a regional variety of the Kʼicheʼ Mayan language spoken by indigenous communities in the southern highlands of Guatemala.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Southern Kʼicheʼ canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4299530 — 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 Kʼicheʼ Context triple: [Kʼicheʼ, hasDialect, Southern Kʼicheʼ]
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A.
Eastern Kʼicheʼ
Eastern Kʼicheʼ is a regional variety of the Kʼicheʼ Mayan language spoken by indigenous communities in the eastern highlands of Guatemala.
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B.
Northern Kʼicheʼ
Northern Kʼicheʼ is a regional variety of the Kʼicheʼ Mayan language spoken primarily in the northern highlands of Guatemala.
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C.
Western Kʼicheʼ
Western Kʼicheʼ is a regional variety of the Kʼicheʼ Mayan language spoken primarily in the western highlands of Guatemala.
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D.
Tzʼutujil Maya
The Tzʼutujil Maya are an Indigenous Maya people of the Guatemalan highlands known for their rich linguistic and cultural traditions, vibrant textiles, and communities around Lake Atitlán.
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E.
Lacandon
Lacandon is a Mayan language spoken by the Lacandon people of the Lacandon Jungle in Chiapas, Mexico, known for preserving many archaic features of the Mayan language family.
- 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 Kʼicheʼ Target entity description: Southern Kʼicheʼ is a regional variety of the Kʼicheʼ Mayan language spoken by indigenous communities in the southern highlands of Guatemala.
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A.
Eastern Kʼicheʼ
Eastern Kʼicheʼ is a regional variety of the Kʼicheʼ Mayan language spoken by indigenous communities in the eastern highlands of Guatemala.
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B.
Northern Kʼicheʼ
Northern Kʼicheʼ is a regional variety of the Kʼicheʼ Mayan language spoken primarily in the northern highlands of Guatemala.
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C.
Western Kʼicheʼ
Western Kʼicheʼ is a regional variety of the Kʼicheʼ Mayan language spoken primarily in the western highlands of Guatemala.
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D.
Tzʼutujil Maya
The Tzʼutujil Maya are an Indigenous Maya people of the Guatemalan highlands known for their rich linguistic and cultural traditions, vibrant textiles, and communities around Lake Atitlán.
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E.
Lacandon
Lacandon is a Mayan language spoken by the Lacandon people of the Lacandon Jungle in Chiapas, Mexico, known for preserving many archaic features of the Mayan language family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
language variety
ⓘ
regional dialect ⓘ |
| coexistsWith | Spanish in Guatemala ⓘ |
| country | Guatemala ⓘ |
| hasAlignment | ergative–absolutive alignment ⓘ |
| hasAncestor |
Proto-Kʼichean language
ⓘ
linked to:
Proto-Kʼichean
Proto-Mayan language ⓘ
linked to:
Proto-Mayan
Proto-Quichean–Mamean language ⓘ
linked to:
Quichean–Mamean languages
|
| hasContactLanguage | Spanish ⓘ |
| hasDomain |
home and community communication
ⓘ
local markets ⓘ |
| hasEndangermentStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| hasEthnicity | Kʼicheʼ Maya ⓘ |
| hasGlottocodeOfParentLanguage | kich1262 ⓘ |
| hasISO639_3CodeOfParentLanguage | quc ⓘ |
| hasLanguageFamily | Mayan languages ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticFeature |
complex aspect and status marking on verbs
ⓘ
productive derivational morphology ⓘ rich verbal morphology ⓘ set A and set B person markers ⓘ |
| hasMorphologyType | head-marking language ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
ejective stops ⓘ glottalized consonants ⓘ uvular consonants ⓘ |
| hasStatus | indigenous language of Guatemala ⓘ |
| hasSubfamily | Quichean–Mamean languages ⓘ |
| hasSubgroup | Kʼichean languages ⓘ |
| hasTypology | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder |
VOS
ⓘ
VSO ⓘ |
| isMutuallyIntelligibleWith | other regional varieties of Kʼicheʼ ⓘ |
| isRecognizedAs | variety within standardized Kʼicheʼ ⓘ |
| isVarietyOf | Kʼicheʼ ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Mayan ⓘ |
| partOf | Kʼicheʼ language ⓘ |
| region |
southern Guatemalan highlands
ⓘ
linked to:
Guatemala Highlands
|
| spokenBy |
Kʼicheʼ Maya people
ⓘ
linked to:
Kʼicheʼ people
indigenous communities in Guatemala ⓘ |
| spokenIn | Guatemala ⓘ |
| spokenInRegion | southern highlands of Guatemala ⓘ |
| subgroupOf | Kʼicheʼ language ⓘ |
| usedIn |
local community life
ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ traditional ceremonies ⓘ |
| usesScript | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| 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: Southern Kʼicheʼ Description of subject: Southern Kʼicheʼ is a regional variety of the Kʼicheʼ Mayan language spoken by indigenous communities in the southern highlands of Guatemala.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.