Apurinã do Purus
E618312
Apurinã do Purus is an Indigenous language of the Arawakan family spoken by the Apurinã people along the Purus River in Brazil.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Apurinã do Purus canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6776970 — 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: Apurinã do Purus Context triple: [Apurinã language, alternativeName, Apurinã do Purus]
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A.
River of Doubt, Brazil
River of Doubt, Brazil is the remote Amazonian river that Theodore Roosevelt famously explored on a perilous expedition later chronicled in his travel narrative "Brazilian Wilderness."
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B.
Aldeia dos Tapajós
Aldeia dos Tapajós was the original indigenous settlement that evolved into the modern city of Santarém in the Brazilian Amazon region.
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C.
Asurini do Xingu
Asurini do Xingu are an Indigenous people of Brazil known for their rich artistic traditions, distinctive body painting, and long-standing residence along the Xingu River in the Amazon region.
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D.
Xingu Asuriní
Xingu Asuriní is an indigenous language of the Tupi–Guaraní family spoken by the Asuriní people living along Brazil’s Xingu River.
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E.
Guajá
Guajá is an indigenous language of the Tupi–Guaraní family spoken by the Guajá people of the Brazilian Amazon.
- 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: Apurinã do Purus Target entity description: Apurinã do Purus is an Indigenous language of the Arawakan family spoken by the Apurinã people along the Purus River in Brazil.
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A.
River of Doubt, Brazil
River of Doubt, Brazil is the remote Amazonian river that Theodore Roosevelt famously explored on a perilous expedition later chronicled in his travel narrative "Brazilian Wilderness."
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B.
Aldeia dos Tapajós
Aldeia dos Tapajós was the original indigenous settlement that evolved into the modern city of Santarém in the Brazilian Amazon region.
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C.
Asurini do Xingu
Asurini do Xingu are an Indigenous people of Brazil known for their rich artistic traditions, distinctive body painting, and long-standing residence along the Xingu River in the Amazon region.
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D.
Xingu Asuriní
Xingu Asuriní is an indigenous language of the Tupi–Guaraní family spoken by the Asuriní people living along Brazil’s Xingu River.
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E.
Guajá
Guajá is an indigenous language of the Tupi–Guaraní family spoken by the Guajá people of the Brazilian Amazon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Arawakan language
ⓘ
endangered language ⓘ indigenous language ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Apurinã culture ⓘ |
| continent | South America ⓘ |
| country | Brazil ⓘ |
| endangeredBecauseOf | language shift to Portuguese ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Apurinã people ⓘ |
| glottocode | apur1254 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Apurinã
ⓘ
Apurinã (Purus) ⓘ Ipuriná ⓘ Ipurinã ⓘ
linked to:
Apurinã
Kangite ⓘ Popengare ⓘ Uapurina ⓘ Uapurinã ⓘ
linked to:
Uapurina
|
| hasDomain |
kinship terminology
ⓘ
ritual practices ⓘ traditional ecological knowledge ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
contrastive nasalization
ⓘ
distinction between oral and nasal vowels ⓘ prefixes and suffixes on verbs ⓘ rich verbal morphology ⓘ |
| hasMorphology | agglutinative morphology ⓘ |
| hasPhonemeInventory | small consonant inventory (relative to world average) ⓘ |
| hasTypology | SOV word order (tendency) ⓘ |
| hasVowelSystem | oral and nasal vowels ⓘ |
| isIndigenousTo |
Brazilian Amazon
ⓘ
linked to:
Amazon rainforest
|
| ISO639-3Code | apu ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Southern Arawakan languages ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Arawakan languages
ⓘ
Maipurean languages ⓘ |
| languageStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| region |
Acre
ⓘ
linked to:
Acre (state)
Amazonas ⓘ Purus River ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Apurinã people ⓘ |
| spokenIn | indigenous territories along the Purus River ⓘ |
| subclassOf | Apurinã language ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
descriptive grammars of Apurinã
ⓘ
phonological studies of Arawakan languages ⓘ |
| usedAlongside | Brazilian Portuguese ⓘ |
| usedIn |
daily communication in Apurinã communities
ⓘ
oral storytelling ⓘ traditional ceremonies ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin script
ⓘ
linked to:
Latin alphabet
|
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Apurinã do Purus Description of subject: Apurinã do Purus is an Indigenous language of the Arawakan family spoken by the Apurinã people along the Purus River in Brazil.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.