South Sami
E617017
South Sami is a Uralic, Sami language spoken by the Southern Sami people in parts of Norway and Sweden and considered highly endangered.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Southern Sámi | 4 |
| South Sami canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6696411 — 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: South Sami Context triple: [Southern Sami language, hasAlternativeName, South Sami]
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A.
Eastern Sami
Eastern Sami is a subgroup of the Sami languages spoken in northeastern Fennoscandia and northwestern Russia, characterized by several highly endangered and moribund varieties.
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B.
Northern Ume Sami
Northern Ume Sami is a regional variety of the Ume Sami language traditionally spoken by Sámi communities in parts of northern Sweden.
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C.
Pite Sámi
Pite Sámi is an endangered Uralic language traditionally spoken by the Sámi people in the Arjeplog area of northern Sweden.
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D.
Southern Ume Sami
Southern Ume Sami is a regional variety of the Ume Sami language traditionally spoken by Sámi communities in parts of northern Sweden.
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E.
Sámi
The Sámi are an Indigenous Finno-Ugric people of northern Europe, traditionally known for reindeer herding, fishing, and a distinct cultural and linguistic heritage across parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia.
- 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: South Sami Target entity description: South Sami is a Uralic, Sami language spoken by the Southern Sami people in parts of Norway and Sweden and considered highly endangered.
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A.
Eastern Sami
Eastern Sami is a subgroup of the Sami languages spoken in northeastern Fennoscandia and northwestern Russia, characterized by several highly endangered and moribund varieties.
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B.
Northern Ume Sami
Northern Ume Sami is a regional variety of the Ume Sami language traditionally spoken by Sámi communities in parts of northern Sweden.
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C.
Pite Sámi
Pite Sámi is an endangered Uralic language traditionally spoken by the Sámi people in the Arjeplog area of northern Sweden.
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D.
Southern Ume Sami
Southern Ume Sami is a regional variety of the Ume Sami language traditionally spoken by Sámi communities in parts of northern Sweden.
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E.
Sámi
The Sámi are an Indigenous Finno-Ugric people of northern Europe, traditionally known for reindeer herding, fishing, and a distinct cultural and linguistic heritage across parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sami language
ⓘ
Uralic language ⓘ endangered language ⓘ |
| ancestor | Proto-Samic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| branch | Western Sami NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Pite Sami
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ume Sami NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus | severely endangered ⓘ |
| family | Uralic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBasicWordOrder | SVO ⓘ |
| hasCase |
abessive
ⓘ
accusative ⓘ comitative ⓘ elative ⓘ essive ⓘ genitive ⓘ illative ⓘ inessive ⓘ nominative ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
northern South Sami
ⓘ
southern South Sami ⓘ |
| hasGrammaticalGender |
common
ⓘ
neuter ⓘ |
| hasLanguageCouncilOrBody |
Sami Parliament of Norway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sami Parliament of Sweden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNumber |
plural
ⓘ
singular ⓘ |
| hasOrthographyStandardized | 1980s ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
consonant length contrast
ⓘ
vowel length contrast ⓘ |
| hasRevitalizationEfforts |
language courses
ⓘ
media and publishing ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | sma ⓘ |
| languageOf | Southern Sami culture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| moreDistantlyRelatedTo | North Sami NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Sami languages continuum ⓘ |
| recognizedMinorityLanguageIn |
Norway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sweden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Southern Sami people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Norway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sweden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subfamily | Sami NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ultimateAncestor | Proto-Uralic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedInEducation |
some schools in Norway
ⓘ
some schools in Sweden ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
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: South Sami Description of subject: South Sami is a Uralic, Sami language spoken by the Southern Sami people in parts of Norway and Sweden and considered highly endangered.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Southern Sámi
this entity surface form:
Southern Sámi
this entity surface form:
Southern Sámi
this entity surface form:
Southern Sámi