Middle Swedish
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Middle Swedish was a historical stage of the Swedish language spoken roughly between the 13th and 16th centuries, marking the transition from Old Swedish to Modern Swedish.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Middle Swedish canonical | 1 |
| Old Swedish | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6908376 — 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: Middle Swedish Context triple: [Middle Norwegian, sharesFeatureWith, Middle Swedish]
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A.
Central Swedish dialects
Central Swedish dialects are a group of Swedish varieties spoken in the central regions of Sweden that form the basis for the standard pronunciation of the Swedish language.
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B.
Swedish
Swedish refers to the people, language, and culture originating from Sweden, a Nordic country in Northern Europe.
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C.
Swedish language
Swedish is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and parts of Finland, known for its close relation to Norwegian and Danish and its role as one of the official languages of the Nordic region.
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D.
Gotlandic Swedish
Gotlandic Swedish is a regional variety of Swedish spoken on the island of Gotland, characterized by distinctive phonology and vocabulary influenced by the older Gutnish language.
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E.
Finland Swedish
Finland Swedish is the variety of the Swedish language traditionally spoken by the Swedish-speaking minority in Finland, characterized by distinct pronunciation, vocabulary, and some grammatical features.
- 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: Middle Swedish Target entity description: Middle Swedish was a historical stage of the Swedish language spoken roughly between the 13th and 16th centuries, marking the transition from Old Swedish to Modern Swedish.
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A.
Central Swedish dialects
Central Swedish dialects are a group of Swedish varieties spoken in the central regions of Sweden that form the basis for the standard pronunciation of the Swedish language.
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B.
Swedish
Swedish refers to the people, language, and culture originating from Sweden, a Nordic country in Northern Europe.
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C.
Swedish language
Swedish is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and parts of Finland, known for its close relation to Norwegian and Danish and its role as one of the official languages of the Nordic region.
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D.
Gotlandic Swedish
Gotlandic Swedish is a regional variety of Swedish spoken on the island of Gotland, characterized by distinctive phonology and vocabulary influenced by the older Gutnish language.
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E.
Finland Swedish
Finland Swedish is the variety of the Swedish language traditionally spoken by the Swedish-speaking minority in Finland, characterized by distinct pronunciation, vocabulary, and some grammatical features.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
North Germanic language variety
ⓘ
historical language stage ⓘ stage of the Swedish language ⓘ |
| developedFrom | Old Swedish ⓘ |
| developedInto |
Early Modern Swedish
ⓘ
Modern Swedish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endTime | 16th century ⓘ |
| era |
early modern period
ⓘ
late Middle Ages ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
Germanic philology
ⓘ
Nordic linguistics ⓘ |
| follows | Old Swedish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
medelsvenska
ⓘ
mellansvenska ⓘ |
| hasChronologicalPosition | middle stage of Swedish ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Götaland varieties
ⓘ
Svealand varieties ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
development of periphrastic tense forms
ⓘ
emergence of definite article suffixes ⓘ growing distinction between spoken and written language ⓘ increasing use of fixed word order ⓘ reduction of noun inflection ⓘ simplification of case system ⓘ |
| hasLanguageRegulator | none (no formal language academy) ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalChange | loss of many Old Norse inflectional endings ⓘ |
| hasOrthographicChange | gradual replacement of runes by Latin script ⓘ |
| hasOrthographicChange | increasing standardization of spelling ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalChange | vowel quality changes leading toward Modern Swedish system ⓘ |
| influenced |
Modern Swedish orthography
ⓘ
Modern Swedish vocabulary ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Latin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Low German NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ISOStatus | no separate ISO 639 code (substage of Swedish) ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Germanic languages
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Indo-European language family ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-European languages
North Germanic languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | Gustav Vasa Bible NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | history of the Swedish language ⓘ |
| precedes | Modern Swedish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Kingdom of Sweden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime | 13th century ⓘ |
| usedBy | Swedish-speaking population of medieval Sweden ⓘ |
| usedFor |
administrative documents
ⓘ
legal texts ⓘ literary texts ⓘ religious texts ⓘ |
| usedIn | Sweden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: Middle Swedish Description of subject: Middle Swedish was a historical stage of the Swedish language spoken roughly between the 13th and 16th centuries, marking the transition from Old Swedish to Modern Swedish.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Old Swedish