Venezuelan Sign Language
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Venezuelan Sign Language is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Venezuela, historically derived from and related to the French Sign Language family.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Venezuelan Sign Language canonical | 2 |
| Lengua de Señas Venezolana | 1 |
| Lengua de Señas de Venezuela | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9478084 — 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: Venezuelan Sign Language Context triple: [French Sign Language family, hasMember, Venezuelan Sign Language]
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A.
Nicaraguan Sign Language
Nicaraguan Sign Language is a naturally emerged sign language developed by deaf children in Nicaragua in the late 20th century, widely studied as a landmark case in the spontaneous creation of language.
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B.
Jamaican Sign Language
Jamaican Sign Language is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Jamaica, with its own distinct grammar and vocabulary separate from spoken Jamaican English and other sign languages.
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C.
American Sign Language
American Sign Language is a natural visual-gestural language used primarily by Deaf communities in the United States and parts of Canada, with its own distinct grammar and vocabulary separate from spoken English.
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D.
Ciboney language
The Ciboney language was an extinct Arawakan tongue once spoken by the indigenous Ciboney people of the Caribbean, particularly in Cuba and surrounding islands.
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E.
ASL
ASL is the ICAO airline designator used to identify Air Serbia in international aviation operations and communications.
- 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: Venezuelan Sign Language Target entity description: Venezuelan Sign Language is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Venezuela, historically derived from and related to the French Sign Language family.
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A.
Nicaraguan Sign Language
Nicaraguan Sign Language is a naturally emerged sign language developed by deaf children in Nicaragua in the late 20th century, widely studied as a landmark case in the spontaneous creation of language.
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B.
Jamaican Sign Language
Jamaican Sign Language is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Jamaica, with its own distinct grammar and vocabulary separate from spoken Jamaican English and other sign languages.
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C.
American Sign Language
American Sign Language is a natural visual-gestural language used primarily by Deaf communities in the United States and parts of Canada, with its own distinct grammar and vocabulary separate from spoken English.
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D.
Ciboney language
The Ciboney language was an extinct Arawakan tongue once spoken by the indigenous Ciboney people of the Caribbean, particularly in Cuba and surrounding islands.
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E.
ASL
ASL is the ICAO airline designator used to identify Air Serbia in international aviation operations and communications.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
natural language
ⓘ
sign language ⓘ |
| countryUsedIn | Venezuela ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | French Sign Language ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | LSV ⓘ |
| hasAcquisition |
learned as second language by hearing interpreters in Venezuela
ⓘ
learned natively by Deaf children of Deaf adults in Venezuela ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Lengua de Señas Venezolana
ⓘ
linked to:
Venezuelan Sign Language
Lengua de Señas de Venezuela ⓘ
linked to:
Venezuelan Sign Language
|
| hasDomain |
community life
ⓘ
education ⓘ media ⓘ public services ⓘ religion ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
classifier constructions
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non-manual markers for negation ⓘ non-manual markers for questions ⓘ use of spatial grammar ⓘ |
| hasGrammarType | topic-prominent ⓘ |
| hasStatus | primary sign language of Venezuela ⓘ |
| hasType | minority language in Venezuela ⓘ |
| hasUserGroup |
Deaf people in Venezuela
ⓘ
hard of hearing people in Venezuela ⓘ sign language interpreters in Venezuela ⓘ |
| isLanguageOf | Venezuelan Deaf culture ⓘ |
| isNot |
a manual form of spoken Spanish
ⓘ
mutually intelligible with all other national sign languages ⓘ |
| languageFamily | French Sign Language family ⓘ |
| modality | manual-visual ⓘ |
| primaryLanguageOf | Deaf community in Venezuela ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
French Sign Language
ⓘ
other sign languages in the French Sign Language family ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Deaf community organizations in Venezuela
ⓘ
Deaf education in Venezuela ⓘ interpreting for television in Venezuela ⓘ public events with sign interpretation in Venezuela ⓘ religious services for Deaf people in Venezuela ⓘ |
| uses |
body posture
ⓘ
facial expressions ⓘ handshapes ⓘ movements ⓘ |
| writingSystem | no standard written form ⓘ |
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: Venezuelan Sign Language Description of subject: Venezuelan Sign Language is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Venezuela, historically derived from and related to the French Sign Language family.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Venezuelan Sign Language
linked to: Venezuelan Sign Language