Numic
E79959
Numic is a branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family comprising several closely related Indigenous languages spoken in the Great Basin and surrounding regions of the western United States.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Numic canonical | 22 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T637324 — 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: Numic Context triple: [Chemehuevi language, subfamily, Numic]
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A.
Muspilli
Muspilli is an Old High German eschatological poem that vividly depicts the Last Judgment and the end of the world.
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B.
Miantonomo
Miantonomo was a prominent 17th-century Narragansett sachem known for his leadership in regional conflicts and diplomacy in New England.
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C.
Upland Yuman
Upland Yuman is a branch of the Yuman language family comprising several closely related Indigenous languages spoken in the upland regions of the southwestern United States.
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D.
Innu
The Innu are an Indigenous people of northeastern Canada, traditionally semi-nomadic hunters whose culture and language are closely tied to the boreal forests and subarctic regions of Labrador and Quebec.
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E.
Nüwü (or Nuwuvi)
Nüwü (or Nuwuvi) is the self-designation of the Chemehuevi, a Southern Paiute Native American people traditionally inhabiting parts of the Mojave Desert and surrounding regions.
- 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: Numic Target entity description: Numic is a branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family comprising several closely related Indigenous languages spoken in the Great Basin and surrounding regions of the western United States.
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A.
Muspilli
Muspilli is an Old High German eschatological poem that vividly depicts the Last Judgment and the end of the world.
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B.
Miantonomo
Miantonomo was a prominent 17th-century Narragansett sachem known for his leadership in regional conflicts and diplomacy in New England.
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C.
Upland Yuman
Upland Yuman is a branch of the Yuman language family comprising several closely related Indigenous languages spoken in the upland regions of the southwestern United States.
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D.
Innu
The Innu are an Indigenous people of northeastern Canada, traditionally semi-nomadic hunters whose culture and language are closely tied to the boreal forests and subarctic regions of Labrador and Quebec.
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E.
Nüwü (or Nuwuvi)
Nüwü (or Nuwuvi) is the self-designation of the Chemehuevi, a Southern Paiute Native American people traditionally inhabiting parts of the Mojave Desert and surrounding regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
branch of Uto-Aztecan languages
ⓘ
language group ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin
ⓘ
surface form:
Great Basin Indigenous peoples
|
| glottologCode | nort2950 (for the family branch as a whole) ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
case-marking on nouns
ⓘ
consonant length contrast ⓘ rich verbal morphology ⓘ vowel length contrast ⓘ |
| hasLanguage |
Comanche
ⓘ
Kawaiisu ⓘ Mono ⓘ Northern Paiute ⓘ Shoshoni ⓘ Southern Paiute people ⓘ
surface form:
Southern Paiute
Timbiša ⓘ Ute people ⓘ
surface form:
Ute
|
| hasSubdivision |
Central Numic
ⓘ
Southern Numic ⓘ Western Numic ⓘ |
| includesLanguage |
Comanche
ⓘ
Kawaiisu ⓘ Mono ⓘ Northern Paiute language ⓘ
surface form:
Northern Paiute
Shoshoni ⓘ Southern Paiute people ⓘ
surface form:
Southern Paiute
Timbiša ⓘ Ute people ⓘ
surface form:
Ute
|
| languageFamily | Uto-Aztecan ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Numic
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
Numic self-linksurface differs ⓘ Numic self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| partOf |
Uto-Aztecan
ⓘ
surface form:
Uto-Aztecan language family
|
| region | western United States ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Arizona
ⓘ
California, United States ⓘ
surface form:
California
Great Basin ⓘ Idaho ⓘ Nevada ⓘ Oregon ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
Utah ⓘ Wyoming ⓘ |
| status | endangered language group ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Uto-Aztecan
ⓘ
surface form:
Uto-Aztecan languages
|
| typology | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| usedBy | Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin ⓘ |
| wordOrder | SOV-dominant ⓘ |
| writingSystem | 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: Numic Description of subject: Numic is a branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family comprising several closely related Indigenous languages spoken in the Great Basin and surrounding regions of the western United States.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Mono language
subject surface form:
Wick R. Miller