Awakatek
E602962
Awakatek is a Mayan language spoken by the Awakatek people of Guatemala, closely related to Tektitek and part of the broader Mayan language family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Awakatek canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6561742 — 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: Awakatek Context triple: [Tektitek, closelyRelatedTo, Awakatek]
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A.
Awajún
Awajún are an Indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon known for their distinct language, rich oral traditions, and long history of resistance to outside domination.
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B.
Kaska
Kaska is an Athabaskan Indigenous language traditionally spoken by the Kaska Dena people of northern Canada, primarily in the Yukon and northern British Columbia.
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C.
Otomi
Otomi is an indigenous Oto-Manguean language spoken by the Otomi people across several states in central Mexico.
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D.
Okitipupa
Okitipupa is a prominent town in southwestern Nigeria known as a commercial and administrative center within Ondo State.
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E.
Aka-Bo
Aka-Bo is an extinct Great Andamanese language once spoken by the Bo people of the Andaman Islands in India.
- 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: Awakatek Target entity description: Awakatek is a Mayan language spoken by the Awakatek people of Guatemala, closely related to Tektitek and part of the broader Mayan language family.
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A.
Awajún
Awajún are an Indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon known for their distinct language, rich oral traditions, and long history of resistance to outside domination.
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B.
Kaska
Kaska is an Athabaskan Indigenous language traditionally spoken by the Kaska Dena people of northern Canada, primarily in the Yukon and northern British Columbia.
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C.
Otomi
Otomi is an indigenous Oto-Manguean language spoken by the Otomi people across several states in central Mexico.
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D.
Okitipupa
Okitipupa is a prominent town in southwestern Nigeria known as a commercial and administrative center within Ondo State.
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E.
Aka-Bo
Aka-Bo is an extinct Great Andamanese language once spoken by the Bo people of the Andaman Islands in India.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mayan language
ⓘ
language ⓘ |
| alignmentType | ergative–absolutive ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Mamean subgroup of Mayan languages ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo | Tektitek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Guatemala ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| ethnolinguisticGroup | Awakatek people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution | northwestern Guatemala ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Aguacateco
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Awakateco NERFINISHED ⓘ Kutanum NERFINISHED ⓘ Qatanum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCulturalAssociation | Awakatek traditional customs and identity ⓘ |
| hasDomain |
home and community communication
ⓘ
local cultural practices ⓘ |
| hasGrammaticalFeature |
person and number agreement on verbs
ⓘ
rich aspect marking ⓘ |
| hasLanguagePolicyContext | recognized as a Mayan language by Guatemalan institutions ⓘ |
| hasLanguageRegulator | Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNeighborLanguage |
Ixil
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mam NERFINISHED ⓘ Qʼanjobʼal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive glottalization
ⓘ
vowel length distinctions ⓘ |
| hasScriptType | alphabetic ⓘ |
| hasSpeakerCommunity | Awakatek communities in Guatemala ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder |
VOS (verb–object–subject)
ⓘ
VSO (verb–subject–object) ⓘ |
| iso639-3 | agu ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Greater Mamean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Mayan language family
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Proto-Mayan (ancestral) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| morphologicalType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| partOf | Mayan languages of Guatemala ⓘ |
| region | Huehuetenango Department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Awakatek people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn | Guatemala NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subfamily | Mamean branch ⓘ |
| usedIn |
local community education
ⓘ
traditional oral literature ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
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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: Awakatek Description of subject: Awakatek is a Mayan language spoken by the Awakatek people of Guatemala, closely related to Tektitek and part of the broader Mayan language family.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.