Tembe
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Tembe is an indigenous language of the Tupi–Guaraní family spoken by the Tembé people of northern Brazil.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tembe canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6469518 — 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: Tembe Context triple: [Tupi–Guaraní, hasLanguage, Tembe]
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A.
Sabie
Sabie is a small forestry and tourism town in northeastern South Africa, known as a gateway to waterfalls and scenic routes near the Drakensberg escarpment.
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B.
Thohoyandou
Thohoyandou is a town in South Africa’s Limpopo province that serves as an administrative, commercial, and educational hub for the surrounding region.
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C.
Kasulu
Kasulu is a town in western Tanzania that serves as one of the main urban and commercial centers of the Kigoma Region.
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D.
Kyalami
Kyalami is a well-known suburb in the Midrand area of Johannesburg, South Africa, famous for its motor racing circuit and upmarket residential estates.
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E.
Sodwana Bay
Sodwana Bay is a renowned coastal destination in South Africa famous for its rich marine biodiversity, coral reefs, and world-class scuba diving and snorkeling opportunities.
- 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: Tembe Target entity description: Tembe is an indigenous language of the Tupi–Guaraní family spoken by the Tembé people of northern Brazil.
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A.
Sabie
Sabie is a small forestry and tourism town in northeastern South Africa, known as a gateway to waterfalls and scenic routes near the Drakensberg escarpment.
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B.
Thohoyandou
Thohoyandou is a town in South Africa’s Limpopo province that serves as an administrative, commercial, and educational hub for the surrounding region.
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C.
Kasulu
Kasulu is a town in western Tanzania that serves as one of the main urban and commercial centers of the Kigoma Region.
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D.
Kyalami
Kyalami is a well-known suburb in the Midrand area of Johannesburg, South Africa, famous for its motor racing circuit and upmarket residential estates.
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E.
Sodwana Bay
Sodwana Bay is a renowned coastal destination in South Africa famous for its rich marine biodiversity, coral reefs, and world-class scuba diving and snorkeling opportunities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | indigenous language ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo | Tenetehara ⓘ |
| country | Brazil ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable language ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Tembé people
ⓘ
linked to:
Munduruku people
|
| hasAlternativeName |
Tembé
ⓘ
Tenetehara-Tembé ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticType | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive nasalization
ⓘ
nasal vowels ⓘ oral vowels ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | SOV-dominant ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem |
Latin script
ⓘ
linked to:
Latin alphabet
|
| ISO639-3Code | tqb ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Tupian ⓘ |
| languageSubfamily | Tupi–Guaraní ⓘ |
| partOf | Amazonian languages area ⓘ |
| region | northern Brazil ⓘ |
| spokenBy |
Tembé people
ⓘ
linked to:
Munduruku people
|
| spokenIn |
Maranhão
ⓘ
Pará ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Tupian language family
ⓘ
linked to:
Tupian languages
Tupi–Guaraní language ⓘ
linked to:
Tupi–Guaraní
|
| subjectOf |
descriptive grammars
ⓘ
linguistic documentation projects ⓘ |
| usedIn |
daily communication within Tembé communities
ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ traditional ceremonies ⓘ |
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: Tembe Description of subject: Tembe is an indigenous language of the Tupi–Guaraní family spoken by the Tembé people of northern Brazil.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.