Mawé
E597724
Mawé is an indigenous Tupian language spoken by the Sateré-Mawé people of the Brazilian Amazon.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6469574 — 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: Mawé Context triple: [Tupian, majorBranch, Mawé]
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A.
Mau
Mau is a city in the Purvanchal region of eastern Uttar Pradesh, India, known for its textile and power-loom industry.
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B.
Mawteni
Mawteni is an alternative Romanized spelling of "Mawtini," the famous Arabic patriotic poem and anthem widely associated with Palestinian and Iraqi national identity.
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C.
Mawanella
Mawanella is a town in central Sri Lanka known as a key transit point on the Colombo–Kandy road and for its surrounding rubber and tea plantations.
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D.
Mokena
Mokena is a suburban village in Will County, Illinois, located southwest of Chicago.
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E.
Mamburao
Mamburao is a coastal municipality in the Philippines that serves as the capital of the province of Occidental Mindoro in the Mimaropa region.
- 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: Mawé Target entity description: Mawé is an indigenous Tupian language spoken by the Sateré-Mawé people of the Brazilian Amazon.
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A.
Mau
Mau is a city in the Purvanchal region of eastern Uttar Pradesh, India, known for its textile and power-loom industry.
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B.
Mawteni
Mawteni is an alternative Romanized spelling of "Mawtini," the famous Arabic patriotic poem and anthem widely associated with Palestinian and Iraqi national identity.
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C.
Mawanella
Mawanella is a town in central Sri Lanka known as a key transit point on the Colombo–Kandy road and for its surrounding rubber and tea plantations.
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D.
Mokena
Mokena is a suburban village in Will County, Illinois, located southwest of Chicago.
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E.
Mamburao
Mamburao is a coastal municipality in the Philippines that serves as the capital of the province of Occidental Mindoro in the Mimaropa region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American indigenous language
ⓘ
indigenous language ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Mabue
ⓘ
Sateré ⓘ Sateré-Mawé ⓘ
linked to:
Sateré-Mawé language
|
| hasAssociatedPeople | Sateré-Mawé people ⓘ |
| hasBasicWordOrder | SOV ⓘ |
| hasCountryOfficialLanguage | Portuguese ⓘ |
| hasDocumentation |
descriptive grammars
ⓘ
dictionaries ⓘ text collections ⓘ |
| hasDomainOfUse |
community gatherings
ⓘ
home ⓘ traditional ceremonies ⓘ |
| hasEndonym |
Sateré-Mawé
ⓘ
linked to:
Sateré-Mawé language
|
| hasEthnicity |
Sateré-Mawé
ⓘ
linked to:
Sateré-Mawé language
|
| hasGlottocode | mawe1242 ⓘ |
| hasGlottologName |
Mawe
ⓘ
linked to:
Mawé
|
| hasISO639-3Code | mav ⓘ |
| hasLanguageBranch | Mawé ⓘ |
| hasLanguageCodeStandard | ISO 639-3 ⓘ |
| hasLanguageFamily | Tupian ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticTypology | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
person marking on verbs
ⓘ
rich verbal morphology ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive nasalization
ⓘ
nasal vowels ⓘ oral vowels ⓘ |
| hasRegion |
Andirá River region
ⓘ
Maués River region ⓘ lower Amazon basin ⓘ
linked to:
Mesoregion of Lower Amazon
|
| hasSociolinguisticSituation | bilingualism with Portuguese ⓘ |
| hasSubfamily | Mawé branch ⓘ |
| isEndangeredBy | language shift to Portuguese ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Tupian language family
ⓘ
linked to:
Tupian languages
|
| languageStatus |
minority language
ⓘ
vulnerable language ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Sateré-Mawé people ⓘ |
| spokenInCountry | Brazil ⓘ |
| spokenInRegion |
Amazonas state
ⓘ
Brazilian Amazon ⓘ
linked to:
Amazon rainforest
Pará state ⓘ
linked to:
Pará
|
| usedFor | daily communication within Sateré-Mawé communities ⓘ |
| usedIn |
oral literature of the Sateré-Mawé people
ⓘ
traditional rituals of the Sateré-Mawé people ⓘ |
| 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: Mawé Description of subject: Mawé is an indigenous Tupian language spoken by the Sateré-Mawé people of the Brazilian Amazon.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mawé