Sidetic language
E520886
The Sidetic language is an extinct Anatolian language once spoken in the ancient city of Side in southern Asia Minor, known primarily from a small corpus of inscriptions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sidetic language canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5460577 — 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: Sidetic language Context triple: [Anatolian studies, studies, Sidetic language]
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A.
Negidal language
The Negidal language is a critically endangered Tungusic language traditionally spoken by the Negidal people in the Russian Far East along the lower Amur River.
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B.
Batanic languages
Batanic languages are a small subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily in the Batanes Islands of the northern Philippines and parts of Taiwan, known for their unique phonological and lexical features.
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C.
Idomoid languages
Idomoid languages are a small group of closely related Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily in central Nigeria, notably including Idoma and its varieties.
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D.
Bantoid languages
The Bantoid languages are a major branch of the Niger-Congo language family that includes the widespread Bantu languages spoken across much of sub-Saharan Africa.
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E.
Badaic languages
Badaic languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian language family spoken in central Sulawesi, Indonesia, known for their close relationship to other Celebic 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: Sidetic language Target entity description: The Sidetic language is an extinct Anatolian language once spoken in the ancient city of Side in southern Asia Minor, known primarily from a small corpus of inscriptions.
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A.
Negidal language
The Negidal language is a critically endangered Tungusic language traditionally spoken by the Negidal people in the Russian Far East along the lower Amur River.
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B.
Batanic languages
Batanic languages are a small subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily in the Batanes Islands of the northern Philippines and parts of Taiwan, known for their unique phonological and lexical features.
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C.
Idomoid languages
Idomoid languages are a small group of closely related Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily in central Nigeria, notably including Idoma and its varieties.
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D.
Bantoid languages
The Bantoid languages are a major branch of the Niger-Congo language family that includes the widespread Bantu languages spoken across much of sub-Saharan Africa.
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E.
Badaic languages
Badaic languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian language family spoken in central Sulawesi, Indonesia, known for their close relationship to other Celebic languages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Anatolian language
ⓘ
ancient language ⓘ extinct language ⓘ |
| attested |
3rd century BCE
ⓘ
4th century BCE ⓘ 5th century BCE ⓘ |
| corpusSize | small corpus of inscriptions ⓘ |
| country |
Greek Antiquity
ⓘ
surface form:
Ancient Greece
|
| culturalContext | Hellenistic period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Classical antiquity NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| extinction | 1st century BCE ⓘ |
| geographicContext | southern coast of Anatolia ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName | Sidean language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasApproximateNumberOfInscriptions | fewer than 50 ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
bilingual inscriptions with Greek
ⓘ
own local alphabetic script ⓘ partially deciphered ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | side1244 ⓘ |
| hasNeighbouringLanguage |
Carian language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lycian language NERFINISHED ⓘ Lydian language ⓘ Pamphylian Greek NERFINISHED ⓘ Pisidian language ⓘ |
| hasStatus | extinct ⓘ |
| hasType | poorly attested language ⓘ |
| hasWriting | inscriptions ⓘ |
| ISO 639-3 code | xsd ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Anatolian languages
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Indo-European language family ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-European languages
|
| locatedInTime | Iron Age NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Side NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Ancient Anatolian linguistic area ⓘ |
| region | Mediterranean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| scriptType | alphabet ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Anatolia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pamphylia NERFINISHED ⓘ Side NERFINISHED ⓘ southern Asia Minor ⓘ |
| studiedIn |
Indo-European studies
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
epigraphy ⓘ historical linguistics ⓘ |
| subclassOf | Indo-European language ⓘ |
| usedBy | inhabitants of Side ⓘ |
| usedFor |
coin legends
ⓘ
public inscriptions ⓘ |
| writingDirection | right-to-left ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Greek alphabet
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sidetic script NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Sidetic language Description of subject: The Sidetic language is an extinct Anatolian language once spoken in the ancient city of Side in southern Asia Minor, known primarily from a small corpus of inscriptions.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.