Old French Sign Language
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Old French Sign Language was an early sign language used in France that significantly influenced the development of many modern sign languages, including American Sign Language.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Old French Sign Language canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5984191 — 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: Old French Sign Language Context triple: [American Sign Language, hasAncestor, Old French Sign Language]
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A.
French Sign Language family
The French Sign Language family is a group of historically related sign languages that originated from French Sign Language and spread through French educational and cultural influence to many countries worldwide.
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B.
Old French
Old French was the medieval Romance language spoken in northern France and surrounding regions, which served as the linguistic ancestor of modern French and significantly influenced English after the Norman Conquest.
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C.
Burgundian (Oïl) language
The Burgundian (Oïl) language is a regional Romance language of eastern France, historically spoken in Burgundy and closely related to French and other langues d’oïl.
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D.
Oïl languages
The Oïl languages are a group of closely related Romance languages historically spoken in northern France and neighboring regions, from which modern French ultimately developed.
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E.
Middle French
Middle French is the historical stage of the French language used roughly between the 14th and 17th centuries, marking the transition from Old French to Modern French.
- 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: Old French Sign Language Target entity description: Old French Sign Language was an early sign language used in France that significantly influenced the development of many modern sign languages, including American Sign Language.
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A.
French Sign Language family
The French Sign Language family is a group of historically related sign languages that originated from French Sign Language and spread through French educational and cultural influence to many countries worldwide.
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B.
Old French
Old French was the medieval Romance language spoken in northern France and surrounding regions, which served as the linguistic ancestor of modern French and significantly influenced English after the Norman Conquest.
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C.
Burgundian (Oïl) language
The Burgundian (Oïl) language is a regional Romance language of eastern France, historically spoken in Burgundy and closely related to French and other langues d’oïl.
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D.
Oïl languages
The Oïl languages are a group of closely related Romance languages historically spoken in northern France and neighboring regions, from which modern French ultimately developed.
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E.
Middle French
Middle French is the historical stage of the French language used roughly between the 14th and 17th centuries, marking the transition from Old French to Modern French.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical language
ⓘ
sign language ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Old French Sign
ⓘ
Old LSF NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basisFor | early French Sign Language used in Paris ⓘ |
| classification | sign language of Europe ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
grammar of American Sign Language
ⓘ
lexicon of American Sign Language ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| developedInto | French Sign Language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| documentationStatus | poorly documented ⓘ |
| era | early modern period ⓘ |
| hasPhonology |
handshape-based
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location-based ⓘ movement-based ⓘ non-manual markers ⓘ orientation-based ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem | no widely used written form ⓘ |
| heritageLanguageOf |
users of American Sign Language
ⓘ
users of modern French Sign Language ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | one of the earliest well-attested European sign languages ⓘ |
| influenced |
American Sign Language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Brazilian Sign Language NERFINISHED ⓘ French Sign Language NERFINISHED ⓘ Irish Sign Language NERFINISHED ⓘ Italian Sign Language NERFINISHED ⓘ Quebec Sign Language NERFINISHED ⓘ many modern sign languages ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
home sign systems of deaf people in France
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village sign varieties in France ⓘ |
| ISOStatus | no ISO 639-3 code ⓘ |
| knownFrom |
early descriptions of deaf education in France
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historical accounts ⓘ |
| languageFamily | French Sign Language family ⓘ |
| linguisticType | natural language ⓘ |
| modality | visual-gestural ⓘ |
| primaryUsers | deaf people in France ⓘ |
| region | metropolitan France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| significantFor |
development of American Sign Language
ⓘ
history of deaf education ⓘ |
| status | extinct or no longer natively used ⓘ |
| usedBy | deaf community in Paris ⓘ |
| usedIn | France 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: Old French Sign Language Description of subject: Old French Sign Language was an early sign language used in France that significantly influenced the development of many modern sign languages, including American Sign Language.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.