Chocho language
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The Chocho language is an indigenous Oto-Manguean language of central Mexico, traditionally spoken by the Chocho people in parts of Oaxaca.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Chocho language canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8339317 — 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: Chocho language Context triple: [Coixtlahuaca, languageUsed, Chocho language]
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A.
Chimariko language
The Chimariko language is an extinct Native American language once spoken in northwestern California, often classified within the proposed Hokan language family.
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B.
Saho language
The Saho language is an Afroasiatic Cushitic language spoken primarily by the Saho people in Eritrea and northern Ethiopia.
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C.
Chaha language
Chaha is an Afroasiatic Semitic language of the Gurage group spoken primarily in southwestern Ethiopia.
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D.
Chumburung language
The Chumburung language is a Niger-Congo language spoken primarily by the Chumburung people in Ghana.
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E.
Changana language
Changana is a Bantu language spoken primarily in southern Mozambique and neighboring regions, closely related to other Tswa–Ronga varieties.
- 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: Chocho language Target entity description: The Chocho language is an indigenous Oto-Manguean language of central Mexico, traditionally spoken by the Chocho people in parts of Oaxaca.
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A.
Chimariko language
The Chimariko language is an extinct Native American language once spoken in northwestern California, often classified within the proposed Hokan language family.
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B.
Saho language
The Saho language is an Afroasiatic Cushitic language spoken primarily by the Saho people in Eritrea and northern Ethiopia.
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C.
Chaha language
Chaha is an Afroasiatic Semitic language of the Gurage group spoken primarily in southwestern Ethiopia.
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D.
Chumburung language
The Chumburung language is a Niger-Congo language spoken primarily by the Chumburung people in Ghana.
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E.
Changana language
Changana is a Bantu language spoken primarily in southern Mozambique and neighboring regions, closely related to other Tswa–Ronga varieties.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mesoamerican language
ⓘ
Oto-Manguean language ⓘ indigenous language ⓘ |
| country | Mexico ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | endangered language ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Chocho people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| glottocode | choc1280 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Chocholtec
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chocholteco NERFINISHED ⓘ Ngiba NERFINISHED ⓘ Ngigua NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCulturalAssociation | Chocho traditional culture ⓘ |
| hasDomain |
local community life
ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ traditional rituals ⓘ |
| hasLanguageFamilyBranch | Eastern Popolocan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticArea | Mesoamerican Linguistic Area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | fusional language ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature | contrastive tone ⓘ |
| hasSpeakerCommunity | indigenous communities of Oaxaca ⓘ |
| hasTypology |
tonal language
ⓘ
verb–subject–object language ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder |
VOS
ⓘ
VSO ⓘ |
| isClassifiedBy |
Ethnologue
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Glottolog NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isMinorityLanguageIn | Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | coz ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Oto-Manguean language family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isRelatedTo |
Mazatec languages
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mixtec languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Popoloca language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isSpokenInMunicipality |
San Miguel Tulancingo, Oaxaca
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Santa María Nativitas, Oaxaca NERFINISHED ⓘ Teotongo, Oaxaca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Oto-Manguean languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageStatus | threatened ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Oaxaca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | central Mexico ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Chocho people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Mexico
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Oaxaca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subfamily | Popolocan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| 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: Chocho language Description of subject: The Chocho language is an indigenous Oto-Manguean language of central Mexico, traditionally spoken by the Chocho people in parts of Oaxaca.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.