Colima Nahuatl
E647881
Colima Nahuatl is a regional variety of the Nahuatl language traditionally spoken in the Mexican state of Colima.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Colima Nahuatl canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7180197 — 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: Colima Nahuatl Context triple: [Western Nahuatl, hasVariety, Colima Nahuatl]
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A.
Michoacán Nahuatl
Michoacán Nahuatl is a regional variety of the Nahuatl language spoken in the Mexican state of Michoacán, belonging to the broader Nahuan branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family.
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B.
Orizaba Nahuatl
Orizaba Nahuatl is a regional variety of the Nahuatl language spoken primarily in and around the city of Orizaba in central Mexico.
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C.
Nahuatl
Nahuatl is a group of indigenous Uto-Aztecan languages of central Mexico, historically spoken by the Aztecs and still used by over a million people today.
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D.
Tetelcingo Nahuatl
Tetelcingo Nahuatl is a regional variety of the Nahuatl language spoken in and around Tetelcingo in the Mexican state of Morelos.
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E.
Central Nahuatl
Central Nahuatl is a major variety of the Nahuatl language spoken in central Mexico, notable for its large number of speakers and influence on modern Mexican Spanish vocabulary.
- 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: Colima Nahuatl Target entity description: Colima Nahuatl is a regional variety of the Nahuatl language traditionally spoken in the Mexican state of Colima.
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A.
Michoacán Nahuatl
Michoacán Nahuatl is a regional variety of the Nahuatl language spoken in the Mexican state of Michoacán, belonging to the broader Nahuan branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family.
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B.
Orizaba Nahuatl
Orizaba Nahuatl is a regional variety of the Nahuatl language spoken primarily in and around the city of Orizaba in central Mexico.
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C.
Nahuatl
Nahuatl is a group of indigenous Uto-Aztecan languages of central Mexico, historically spoken by the Aztecs and still used by over a million people today.
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D.
Tetelcingo Nahuatl
Tetelcingo Nahuatl is a regional variety of the Nahuatl language spoken in and around Tetelcingo in the Mexican state of Morelos.
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E.
Central Nahuatl
Central Nahuatl is a major variety of the Nahuatl language spoken in central Mexico, notable for its large number of speakers and influence on modern Mexican Spanish vocabulary.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nahuatl language variety
ⓘ
indigenous language variety of Mexico ⓘ regional language variety ⓘ |
| basicWordOrder |
flexible word order
ⓘ
often verb-initial ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | Mexico ⓘ |
| endangeredFactors |
intergenerational transmission interruption
ⓘ
language shift to Spanish ⓘ small speaker population ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Nahua people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAncestor |
Classical Nahuatl
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Proto-Nahuan NERFINISHED ⓘ Proto-Uto-Aztecan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
Spanish lexical influence
ⓘ
complex verbal morphology ⓘ derivational verbal prefixes and suffixes ⓘ noun incorporation (limited) ⓘ possessive prefixes on nouns ⓘ regional phonological innovations ⓘ vowel length distinctions (historically) ⓘ |
| hasLexicalBorrowingsFrom | Spanish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalInfluenceFrom | Spanish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | western Mexico ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Aztecan ⓘ |
| languageCodeStatus | does not have an ISO 639-3 code as a separate language ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Uto-Aztecan language family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageGroup | Nahuan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageStatus |
endangered
ⓘ
moribund ⓘ |
| linguisticArea | Mesoamerican linguistic area ⓘ |
| morphologyType | polysynthetic ⓘ |
| partOf | Mexican indigenous languages ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | variant of Nahuatl in Mexican linguistic classification ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Central Nahuatl
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Western Peripheral Nahuatl varieties NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sharesArealFeaturesWith | other Mesoamerican languages ⓘ |
| spokenIn | Colima NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Aztecan languages
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eastern Nahuatl NERFINISHED ⓘ Nahuan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Nahuatl NERFINISHED ⓘ Uto-Aztecan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| traditionalRegion | Mexican state of Colima ⓘ |
| typology | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| usedFor | oral communication ⓘ |
| 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: Colima Nahuatl Description of subject: Colima Nahuatl is a regional variety of the Nahuatl language traditionally spoken in the Mexican state of Colima.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.