Modoc language
E470201
The Modoc language is an endangered Native American tongue of the Plateau Penutian family traditionally spoken by the Modoc people of northern California and southern Oregon.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Modoc language canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4788100 — 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: Modoc language Context triple: [Modoc people, language, Modoc language]
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A.
Mojave language
The Mojave language is a Native American Yuman language traditionally spoken by the Mojave people along the lower Colorado River in the southwestern United States.
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B.
Saklan Miwok
Saklan Miwok refers to a Native American group of the Miwok people historically inhabiting parts of the San Francisco Bay Area in California.
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C.
Miwok languages
Miwok languages are a group of closely related Native American languages traditionally spoken by the Miwok peoples of central and northern California.
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D.
Shasta language
The Shasta language is an extinct Native American language once spoken by the Shasta people of northern California and southern Oregon, often classified within the proposed Hokan language family.
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E.
Walapai language
The Walapai language is a Native American language of the Yuman family traditionally spoken by the Hualapai people of northwestern Arizona.
- 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: Modoc language Target entity description: The Modoc language is an endangered Native American tongue of the Plateau Penutian family traditionally spoken by the Modoc people of northern California and southern Oregon.
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A.
Mojave language
The Mojave language is a Native American Yuman language traditionally spoken by the Mojave people along the lower Colorado River in the southwestern United States.
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B.
Saklan Miwok
Saklan Miwok refers to a Native American group of the Miwok people historically inhabiting parts of the San Francisco Bay Area in California.
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C.
Miwok languages
Miwok languages are a group of closely related Native American languages traditionally spoken by the Miwok peoples of central and northern California.
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D.
Shasta language
The Shasta language is an extinct Native American language once spoken by the Shasta people of northern California and southern Oregon, often classified within the proposed Hokan language family.
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E.
Walapai language
The Walapai language is a Native American language of the Yuman family traditionally spoken by the Hualapai people of northwestern Arizona.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Native American language
ⓘ
endangered language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| belongsTo |
Native languages of California
ⓘ
Native languages of Oregon ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Klamath language
ⓘ
linked to:
Klamath–Modoc language
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| culturalSignificance | core marker of Modoc identity ⓘ |
| endangermentCause |
forced assimilation policies
ⓘ
language shift to English ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Modoc people ⓘ |
| family | Plateau Penutian ⓘ |
| glottocode | modo1239 ⓘ |
| hasAlternateName |
Klamath–Modoc (when grouped with Klamath)
ⓘ
Modoc ⓘ |
| hasDomain |
kinship terminology
ⓘ
place names ⓘ traditional ecological knowledge ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
complex verbal morphology
ⓘ
polysynthetic tendencies ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
rich consonant inventory ⓘ |
| hasResource |
archival recordings
ⓘ
linguistic field notes ⓘ |
| hasSpeakerPopulationTrend | declining ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | mox ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Klamath–Modoc language continuum
ⓘ
linked to:
Klamath–Modoc language
|
| linguisticTypology | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| region |
northern California
ⓘ
linked to:
Northern California
southern Oregon ⓘ |
| revitalizationEffort |
community language classes
ⓘ
documentation projects ⓘ |
| spokenNear |
Lost River region
ⓘ
Tule Lake region ⓘ
linked to:
Klamath Basin
|
| spokenOn |
Klamath Reservation (historically)
ⓘ
linked to:
Klamath Reservation
|
| status | severely endangered ⓘ |
| subfamily |
Klamath–Modoc
ⓘ
linked to:
Klamath
|
| traditionalUse |
ceremonial contexts
ⓘ
everyday communication (historically) ⓘ oral tradition ⓘ |
| transmissionStatus | limited intergenerational transmission ⓘ |
| wordOrder | SOV-dominant ⓘ |
| 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: Modoc language Description of subject: The Modoc language is an endangered Native American tongue of the Plateau Penutian family traditionally spoken by the Modoc people of northern California and southern Oregon.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.