Jakalteko
E602959
Jakalteko is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Jakaltek people in the Huehuetenango region of Guatemala.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jakalteko canonical | 4 |
| Jakaltek Maya | 2 |
| Jakalteco | 1 |
| Jakalteka | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6561677 — 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: Jakalteko Context triple: [Jakaltek, alternateName, Jakalteko]
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A.
Gukumatz
Gukumatz is a feathered serpent deity of the Kʼicheʼ Maya, closely associated with creation, wind, and wisdom and identified with the Mesoamerican god Quetzalcoatl.
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B.
Kalkin
Kalkin is an alternative name or form of Kalki, the prophesied future avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu who is destined to appear at the end of the current age to restore righteousness.
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C.
Maxtla
Maxtla was a Tepanec ruler of Azcapotzalco in pre-Columbian central Mexico, known for his aggressive expansionism and conflict with neighboring city-states such as Tenochtitlan.
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D.
Kykotsmovi
Kykotsmovi is a Hopi village and census-designated place located on the Hopi Reservation in northeastern Arizona.
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E.
Tezonco
Tezonco is a metro station in Mexico City that serves the southeastern area of the city on the capital’s rapid transit network.
- 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: Jakalteko Target entity description: Jakalteko is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Jakaltek people in the Huehuetenango region of Guatemala.
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A.
Gukumatz
Gukumatz is a feathered serpent deity of the Kʼicheʼ Maya, closely associated with creation, wind, and wisdom and identified with the Mesoamerican god Quetzalcoatl.
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B.
Kalkin
Kalkin is an alternative name or form of Kalki, the prophesied future avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu who is destined to appear at the end of the current age to restore righteousness.
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C.
Maxtla
Maxtla was a Tepanec ruler of Azcapotzalco in pre-Columbian central Mexico, known for his aggressive expansionism and conflict with neighboring city-states such as Tenochtitlan.
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D.
Kykotsmovi
Kykotsmovi is a Hopi village and census-designated place located on the Hopi Reservation in northeastern Arizona.
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E.
Tezonco
Tezonco is a metro station in Mexico City that serves the southeastern area of the city on the capital’s rapid transit network.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mayan language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Mayan cultural sphere ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Akateko
ⓘ
Chuj ⓘ Qʼanjobʼal ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | Guatemala ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| ethnolinguisticGroup |
Jakaltek Maya
ⓘ
linked to:
Jakalteko
|
| family |
Mayan language family
ⓘ
linked to:
Mayan languages
|
| glottocode | jaka1245 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Jakalteco
ⓘ
linked to:
Jakalteko
Jakaltek ⓘ Jakalteko Poptiʼ ⓘ Poptiʼ ⓘ
linked to:
Popti’
|
| hasDomain |
everyday communication among Jakaltek people
ⓘ
local governance in Jakaltek communities ⓘ ritual and religious practices ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
ergative–absolutive alignment
ⓘ
head-marking morphology ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive tone
ⓘ
glottalized consonants ⓘ |
| hasRegulatoryBody | Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala ⓘ |
| hasSpeakerCommunity | Jakaltek diaspora in the United States ⓘ |
| hasStandardizationEffort | orthography development by Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | jac ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Mayan language area ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Mayan ⓘ |
| languageStatus |
indigenous language of the Americas
ⓘ
minority language ⓘ |
| macroArea | Mesoamerica ⓘ |
| region | northwestern Guatemala ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Jakaltek people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Guatemala
ⓘ
Huehuetenango Department ⓘ |
| subfamily | Qʼanjobʼalan branch ⓘ |
| typology | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| usedIn |
community radio broadcasting
ⓘ
local education programs ⓘ traditional oral literature ⓘ |
| wordOrder |
VOS
ⓘ
VSO ⓘ |
| 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: Jakalteko Description of subject: Jakalteko is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Jakaltek people in the Huehuetenango region of Guatemala.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Jakalteko
linked to: Jakalteko
linked to: Jakalteko
linked to: Jakalteko