Terêna
E655596
Terêna is an Arawakan language spoken by the Terena Indigenous people of Brazil, primarily in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Terêna canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7313716 — 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: Terêna Context triple: [Terena language, hasAlternativeName, Terêna]
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A.
Tenea
Tenea was an ancient Greek city, traditionally associated with Corinthian colonists and mythic Trojan origins, known from classical sources and archaeological discoveries in the Peloponnese.
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B.
Teressa
Teressa is a Nicobarese language variety spoken by the indigenous community on Teressa Island in India’s Nicobar archipelago.
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C.
Sheilia
Sheilia is a feminine given name, typically considered an alternative spelling of the name Sheila.
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D.
Teri
Teri is a central character in the film and television series "Soul Food," known as the ambitious, high-powered attorney whose strained relationships with her family drive much of the story’s drama.
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E.
Laleia
Laleia is a town in northern Timor-Leste known as the birthplace of independence leader and former president Xanana Gusmão.
- 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: Terêna Target entity description: Terêna is an Arawakan language spoken by the Terena Indigenous people of Brazil, primarily in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul.
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A.
Tenea
Tenea was an ancient Greek city, traditionally associated with Corinthian colonists and mythic Trojan origins, known from classical sources and archaeological discoveries in the Peloponnese.
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B.
Teressa
Teressa is a Nicobarese language variety spoken by the indigenous community on Teressa Island in India’s Nicobar archipelago.
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C.
Sheilia
Sheilia is a feminine given name, typically considered an alternative spelling of the name Sheila.
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D.
Teri
Teri is a central character in the film and television series "Soul Food," known as the ambitious, high-powered attorney whose strained relationships with her family drive much of the story’s drama.
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E.
Laleia
Laleia is a town in northern Timor-Leste known as the birthplace of independence leader and former president Xanana Gusmão.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Arawakan language
ⓘ
indigenous language of the Americas ⓘ language of Brazil ⓘ |
| associatedPeople |
Terena Indigenous people of Brazil
ⓘ
linked to:
Terena people
|
| belongsToMacroArea | South America ⓘ |
| contactLanguage | Brazilian Portuguese ⓘ |
| country | Brazil ⓘ |
| glottologCode | tere1279 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Terena ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Etelena
ⓘ
Terena ⓘ Tereno ⓘ Terêna (language) ⓘ |
| hasBasicWordOrder | SOV ⓘ |
| hasCommunityOrthography | standardized Latin-based orthography used in schools ⓘ |
| hasConsonantSystem | moderately small consonant inventory ⓘ |
| hasDocumentation | grammars and dictionaries compiled by linguists ⓘ |
| hasLanguageRevitalizationEffort | bilingual education programs in Terena communities ⓘ |
| hasLanguageShiftPressure | shift toward Portuguese among younger speakers ⓘ |
| hasLanguageStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticFeature |
postpositions rather than prepositions
ⓘ
rich verbal morphology ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive nasal vowels
ⓘ
simple consonant inventory ⓘ |
| hasStressPattern | predictable word-level stress ⓘ |
| hasTypologicalFeature |
head-marking in the verb
ⓘ
possessive marking on nouns ⓘ |
| hasVowelSystem | five-vowel system ⓘ |
| isEndangered | true ⓘ |
| iso639-3Code | ter ⓘ |
| isTaughtIn | indigenous schools in Terena communities ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Arawakan
ⓘ
linked to:
Arawakan languages
|
| neighboringLanguages |
Guarani
ⓘ
linked to:
Guaraní
Portuguese ⓘ
linked to:
Portuguese language
|
| primaryEthnicGroup | Terena ⓘ |
| region |
Central-West Brazil
ⓘ
linked to:
Central-West Region of Brazil
|
| spokenBy | Terena people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Brazil
ⓘ
state of Mato Grosso do Sul ⓘ |
| subfamilyOf |
Southern Arawakan languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Southern Arawakan
|
| usedIn |
community education
ⓘ
ritual practices ⓘ traditional oral narratives ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin script
ⓘ
linked to:
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: Terêna Description of subject: Terêna is an Arawakan language spoken by the Terena Indigenous people of Brazil, primarily in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.