Qʼanjobʼalan branch
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The Qʼanjobʼalan branch is a subgroup of Mayan languages spoken primarily in the highlands of Guatemala and parts of southern Mexico, known for its closely related indigenous languages such as Qʼanjobʼal, Akateko, and Jakaltek.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Qʼanjobʼalan branch canonical | 2 |
| Poqom branch | 1 |
| Qʼanjobalan–Chujean branch | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6561559 — 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: Qʼanjobʼalan branch Context triple: [Qʼanjobʼal, subfamily, Qʼanjobʼalan branch]
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A.
Katuic branch
The Katuic branch is a subgroup of Austroasiatic languages spoken primarily in Laos, Vietnam, and neighboring regions by various indigenous ethnic communities.
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B.
Kunama branch
The Kunama branch is a small linguistic subgroup within the Nilo-Saharan language family, encompassing the Kunama language spoken primarily in western Eritrea and adjacent regions of Ethiopia.
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C.
Jornada branch
The Jornada branch was a regional variant of the Mogollon culture that inhabited parts of what are now southern New Mexico, west Texas, and northern Mexico, known for its distinctive pottery and rock art traditions.
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D.
the Branch
The Branch is a prophetic messianic figure in the Book of Zechariah, symbolizing a future divinely appointed leader who will restore and rule God’s people.
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E.
Dhegihan branch
The Dhegihan branch is a subgroup of the Siouan language family that includes closely related languages such as Kansa, Omaha-Ponca, Osage, and Quapaw traditionally spoken in the central United States.
- 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: Qʼanjobʼalan branch Target entity description: The Qʼanjobʼalan branch is a subgroup of Mayan languages spoken primarily in the highlands of Guatemala and parts of southern Mexico, known for its closely related indigenous languages such as Qʼanjobʼal, Akateko, and Jakaltek.
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A.
Katuic branch
The Katuic branch is a subgroup of Austroasiatic languages spoken primarily in Laos, Vietnam, and neighboring regions by various indigenous ethnic communities.
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B.
Kunama branch
The Kunama branch is a small linguistic subgroup within the Nilo-Saharan language family, encompassing the Kunama language spoken primarily in western Eritrea and adjacent regions of Ethiopia.
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C.
Jornada branch
The Jornada branch was a regional variant of the Mogollon culture that inhabited parts of what are now southern New Mexico, west Texas, and northern Mexico, known for its distinctive pottery and rock art traditions.
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D.
the Branch
The Branch is a prophetic messianic figure in the Book of Zechariah, symbolizing a future divinely appointed leader who will restore and rule God’s people.
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E.
Dhegihan branch
The Dhegihan branch is a subgroup of the Siouan language family that includes closely related languages such as Kansa, Omaha-Ponca, Osage, and Quapaw traditionally spoken in the central United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
branch of Mayan languages
ⓘ
language subgroup ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Akateko language
ⓘ
Jakaltek language ⓘ Qʼanjobʼal language ⓘ |
| ethnolinguisticGroup |
Akateko people
ⓘ
Chuj people ⓘ
linked to:
Qʼanjobʼal people
Jakaltek (Poptiʼ) people ⓘ
linked to:
Jakaltek people
Mochoʼ people ⓘ Qʼanjobʼal people ⓘ Tojolabal people ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
Mayan linguistics
ⓘ
historical linguistics ⓘ |
| hasAncestor |
Proto-Mayan language
ⓘ
linked to:
Proto-Mayan
|
| hasPart |
Akateko language
ⓘ
Chuj language ⓘ Jakaltek language ⓘ Jakaltek–Tojolabal subgroup ⓘ Mochoʼ language ⓘ Qʼanjobʼal language ⓘ Qʼanjobʼal–Chuj subgroup ⓘ Tojolabal language ⓘ
linked to:
Tojol-abʼal language
|
| hasReconstruction | Proto-Qʼanjobʼalan language ⓘ |
| hasSubgroup |
Jakaltek–Tojolabal languages
ⓘ
Qʼanjobʼal–Chuj languages ⓘ
linked to:
Qʼanjobʼal–Chuj subgroup
|
| ISOClassification | part of Mayan (myn) macrolanguage grouping in some classifications ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Mayan ⓘ |
| linguisticFeature |
aspect-based verbal systems
ⓘ
complex verb morphology ⓘ contrastive tone in some member languages ⓘ ergative–absolutive alignment ⓘ glottalized consonants ⓘ head-marking morphology ⓘ |
| linguisticTypology | agglutinative language group ⓘ |
| partOf |
Mayan language family
ⓘ
linked to:
Mayan languages
|
| region |
Mesoamerica
ⓘ
Western Mayan area ⓘ
linked to:
Western Maya
|
| spokenIn |
Chiapas
ⓘ
Guatemala ⓘ Guatemalan Highlands ⓘ
linked to:
Guatemala Highlands
Huehuetenango Department ⓘ Mexico ⓘ southern Mexico ⓘ |
| status | indigenous language group ⓘ |
| subclassOf | Mayan languages ⓘ |
| usedBy |
indigenous communities of Chiapas
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indigenous communities of Guatemala ⓘ |
| 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: Qʼanjobʼalan branch Description of subject: The Qʼanjobʼalan branch is a subgroup of Mayan languages spoken primarily in the highlands of Guatemala and parts of southern Mexico, known for its closely related indigenous languages such as Qʼanjobʼal, Akateko, and Jakaltek.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Qʼanjobʼalan branch