Spokane language
E484290
The Spokane language is an Indigenous Salishan language traditionally spoken by the Spokane people of the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Spokane language canonical | 8 |
| Spokan language | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4992817 — 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: Spokane language Context triple: [Salishan languages, hasLanguage, Spokane language]
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A.
Duwamish language
The Duwamish language is a nearly extinct Coast Salish language traditionally spoken by the Duwamish people of the Seattle area in Washington State.
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B.
Nez Perce language
Nez Perce language is a critically endangered Native American language traditionally spoken by the Nez Perce people of the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
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C.
Kathlamet language
The Kathlamet language is an extinct Chinookan language once spoken by the Kathlamet people along the lower Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
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D.
Nooksack language
The Nooksack language is an Indigenous Coast Salish language traditionally spoken by the Nooksack people of the Pacific Northwest region of North America.
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E.
Lummi language
The Lummi language is an Indigenous Coast Salish language traditionally spoken by the Lummi people of the Pacific Northwest coast of North America.
- 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: Spokane language Target entity description: The Spokane language is an Indigenous Salishan language traditionally spoken by the Spokane people of the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
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A.
Duwamish language
The Duwamish language is a nearly extinct Coast Salish language traditionally spoken by the Duwamish people of the Seattle area in Washington State.
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B.
Nez Perce language
Nez Perce language is a critically endangered Native American language traditionally spoken by the Nez Perce people of the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
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C.
Kathlamet language
The Kathlamet language is an extinct Chinookan language once spoken by the Kathlamet people along the lower Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
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D.
Nooksack language
The Nooksack language is an Indigenous Coast Salish language traditionally spoken by the Nooksack people of the Pacific Northwest region of North America.
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E.
Lummi language
The Lummi language is an Indigenous Coast Salish language traditionally spoken by the Lummi people of the Pacific Northwest coast of North America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Indigenous language
ⓘ
Native American language ⓘ Salishan language ⓘ endangered language ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Spokan language
ⓘ
linked to:
Spokane language
Spokane Salish ⓘ |
| associatedPeople | Interior Salish peoples ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Spokane Indian Reservation
ⓘ
linked to:
Spokane Indian Reservation (partly)
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| culturalRole |
central to Spokane cultural identity
ⓘ
used in traditional stories and ceremonies ⓘ |
| documentation | described in works on Interior Salish linguistics ⓘ |
| education | taught in some tribal and community education programs ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Spokane Tribe of Indians ⓘ |
| ISOStatus | has ISO 639-3 code (commonly assigned to Salishan languages) ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Salishan languages ⓘ |
| linguisticTypology |
head-marking language
ⓘ
polysynthetic language ⓘ |
| morphology | complex verbal morphology ⓘ |
| numberOfSpeakers | very few fluent speakers ⓘ |
| phonology |
contrastive glottalization
ⓘ
rich consonant inventory ⓘ |
| region | Columbia Plateau ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Coeur d'Alene language
ⓘ
linked to:
Coeur d’Alene language
Flathead language ⓘ Kalispel language ⓘ |
| revitalization |
documentation and recording projects
ⓘ
language classes in the Spokane community ⓘ tribal language programs ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Spokane people ⓘ |
| status |
moribund
ⓘ
severely endangered ⓘ |
| subfamily | Interior Salish languages ⓘ |
| traditionalRegion |
Inland Northwest
ⓘ
Pacific Northwest ⓘ |
| traditionalTerritory |
Eastern Washington
ⓘ
linked to:
eastern Washington
Spokane River region ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin script
ⓘ
linked to:
Latin alphabet
practical orthography developed for language revitalization ⓘ |
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: Spokane language Description of subject: The Spokane language is an Indigenous Salishan language traditionally spoken by the Spokane people of the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Spokane language