Cotzal Ixil
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Cotzal Ixil is a regional variety of the Ixil Mayan language spoken primarily in and around the municipality of San Juan Cotzal in Guatemala.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cotzal Ixil canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6839326 — 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: Cotzal Ixil Context triple: [Ixil, hasDialect, Cotzal Ixil]
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A.
Copainalá Zoque
Copainalá Zoque is a Zoquean indigenous language spoken in the region of Copainalá in Chiapas, Mexico.
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B.
Cosalá
Cosalá is a historic mining town and municipality in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, known for its well-preserved colonial architecture and designation as a Pueblo Mágico (Magical Town).
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C.
Ixchiguán
Ixchiguán is a highland municipality in western Guatemala known for its cold climate, mountainous terrain, and traditional indigenous communities.
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D.
Itzá
The Itzá are a Maya people of northern Guatemala, historically centered around Lake Petén Itzá and known for their late-surviving independent kingdom and rich cultural traditions.
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E.
Tejutla
Tejutla is a municipality located in the highland region of western Guatemala, known for its rural communities and traditional agricultural activities.
- 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: Cotzal Ixil Target entity description: Cotzal Ixil is a regional variety of the Ixil Mayan language spoken primarily in and around the municipality of San Juan Cotzal in Guatemala.
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A.
Copainalá Zoque
Copainalá Zoque is a Zoquean indigenous language spoken in the region of Copainalá in Chiapas, Mexico.
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B.
Cosalá
Cosalá is a historic mining town and municipality in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, known for its well-preserved colonial architecture and designation as a Pueblo Mágico (Magical Town).
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C.
Ixchiguán
Ixchiguán is a highland municipality in western Guatemala known for its cold climate, mountainous terrain, and traditional indigenous communities.
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D.
Itzá
The Itzá are a Maya people of northern Guatemala, historically centered around Lake Petén Itzá and known for their late-surviving independent kingdom and rich cultural traditions.
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E.
Tejutla
Tejutla is a municipality located in the highland region of western Guatemala, known for its rural communities and traditional agricultural activities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Ixil dialect
ⓘ
Mayan language variety ⓘ regional language variety ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Chajul Ixil
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nebaj Ixil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Guatemala ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Ixil people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDialectContinuumWith |
Chajul Ixil
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nebaj Ixil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticFeature |
complex aspect and status markers
ⓘ
ergative–absolutive alignment ⓘ verb–initial basic word order ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature | tonal contrasts (as in Ixil) ⓘ |
| isMutuallyIntelligibleWith | other Ixil varieties ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Mamean ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Mayan ⓘ |
| minorityLanguageIn | Guatemala NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | San Juan Cotzal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfLanguageBranch |
Greater Mamean languages
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mamean languages ⓘ |
| partOfLanguageFamily | Mayan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | San Juan Cotzal region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Guatemala
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Quiché Department NERFINISHED ⓘ San Juan Cotzal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf | Ixil language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
everyday communication
ⓘ
local cultural practices ⓘ oral tradition ⓘ |
| 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: Cotzal Ixil Description of subject: Cotzal Ixil is a regional variety of the Ixil Mayan language spoken primarily in and around the municipality of San Juan Cotzal in Guatemala.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.