Upper German
E60296
Upper German is a major group of High German dialects spoken primarily in southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and parts of neighboring countries.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Upper German canonical | 9 |
| Upper German dialects | 2 |
| Highest Alemannic | 1 |
| Swabian German | 1 |
| Upper German dialect continuum | 1 |
| Upper German dialect group | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T475593 — 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: Upper German Context triple: [German, hasDialectGroup, Upper German]
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A.
Rhenish Franconian
Rhenish Franconian is a group of West Central German dialects spoken primarily in parts of western Germany, Luxembourg, and eastern France.
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B.
Austro-Bavarian German
Austro-Bavarian German is a major Upper German dialect group spoken primarily in Austria and parts of Bavaria and South Tyrol, characterized by distinct phonology, vocabulary, and regional varieties.
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C.
East Franconian
East Franconian is a High German dialect spoken primarily in parts of northern Bavaria, Thuringia, and Baden-Württemberg, forming a transitional variety between Upper and Central German dialects.
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D.
Old High German
Old High German is the earliest recorded stage of the German language, spoken in parts of what is now Germany, Austria, and Switzerland roughly between the 6th and 11th centuries.
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E.
Alemannic German
Alemannic German is a group of Upper German dialects spoken primarily in parts of Switzerland, Germany, Austria, and Liechtenstein.
- 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: Upper German Target entity description: Upper German is a major group of High German dialects spoken primarily in southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and parts of neighboring countries.
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A.
Rhenish Franconian
Rhenish Franconian is a group of West Central German dialects spoken primarily in parts of western Germany, Luxembourg, and eastern France.
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B.
Austro-Bavarian German
Austro-Bavarian German is a major Upper German dialect group spoken primarily in Austria and parts of Bavaria and South Tyrol, characterized by distinct phonology, vocabulary, and regional varieties.
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C.
East Franconian
East Franconian is a High German dialect spoken primarily in parts of northern Bavaria, Thuringia, and Baden-Württemberg, forming a transitional variety between Upper and Central German dialects.
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D.
Old High German
Old High German is the earliest recorded stage of the German language, spoken in parts of what is now Germany, Austria, and Switzerland roughly between the 6th and 11th centuries.
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E.
Alemannic German
Alemannic German is a group of Upper German dialects spoken primarily in parts of Switzerland, Germany, Austria, and Liechtenstein.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
High German dialect group
ⓘ
group of dialects ⓘ |
| distinguishedBy |
High German consonant shift
ⓘ
stronger consonant shift than Central German ⓘ |
| distinguishedFrom |
Central German languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Central German
Low German ⓘ |
| glottologCode | uppe1397 ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
forms dialect continuum with Central German
ⓘ
often not mutually intelligible with Low German ⓘ significant regional variation ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Alemannic German
ⓘ
Austro-Bavarian German ⓘ
surface form:
Austro-Bavarian
Austro-Bavarian German ⓘ
surface form:
Bavarian dialects
East Franconian ⓘ
surface form:
East Franconian German
Alemannic German ⓘ
surface form:
High Alemannic
Alemannic German ⓘ
surface form:
Highest Alemannic
Alemannic German ⓘ
surface form:
Low Alemannic
South Franconian German ⓘ Alemannic German ⓘ
surface form:
Swabian German
Yiddish (historical basis) ⓘ |
| historicalDevelopmentFrom |
Middle High German
ⓘ
Old High German ⓘ |
| influenced |
Standard German
ⓘ
surface form:
Standard German (partly)
|
| languageBranch | Germanic languages ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Indo-European language family
ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-European languages
|
| languageGroup | High German ⓘ |
| languageSubbranch | West Germanic languages ⓘ |
| partOf | German language continuum ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Alsace
ⓘ
Austria ⓘ Baden-Württemberg ⓘ Bavaria ⓘ Liechtenstein ⓘ Lorraine ⓘ Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol ⓘ
surface form:
South Tyrol
Switzerland ⓘ Eastern Switzerland ⓘ
surface form:
eastern Switzerland
Northern Italy ⓘ
surface form:
northern Italy
parts of Czech Republic ⓘ parts of Slovenia ⓘ southern Germany ⓘ western Austria ⓘ |
| status | primarily spoken, not standardized ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
High German
ⓘ
West Germanic languages ⓘ |
| usedFor | everyday spoken communication ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin script ⓘ |
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: Upper German Description of subject: Upper German is a major group of High German dialects spoken primarily in southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and parts of neighboring countries.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Highest Alemannic
this entity surface form:
Swabian German
this entity surface form:
Upper German dialects
this entity surface form:
Upper German dialect continuum
this entity surface form:
Upper German dialect group
this entity surface form:
Upper German dialects