Kildin Sámi
E81317
Kildin Sámi is a Uralic language spoken by the Sámi people primarily on Russia’s Kola Peninsula.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kildin Sami | 11 |
| Kildin Sámi canonical | 7 |
| Kildin Sami language | 2 |
| Kildin Saami | 1 |
| Kildin Sámi people | 1 |
| North Sami | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T597130 — 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: Kildin Sámi Context triple: [Sámi, hasLanguage, Kildin Sámi]
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A.
Sámi
The Sámi are an Indigenous Finno-Ugric people of northern Europe, traditionally known for reindeer herding, fishing, and a distinct cultural and linguistic heritage across parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia.
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B.
Yugtun
Yugtun is the Central Alaskan Yup’ik language spoken by Yup’ik people in western and southwestern Alaska.
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C.
Inari Sámi
Inari Sámi is a Uralic minority language spoken primarily around Lake Inari in northern Finland by the Inari Sámi people.
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D.
Kalaallisut
Kalaallisut is the Greenlandic Inuit language, an Eskimo–Aleut tongue spoken primarily in Greenland and serving as the territory’s official language.
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E.
Elfdalian
Elfdalian is a highly conservative North Germanic language spoken in the Älvdalen region of Sweden, preserving many archaic features lost in other Scandinavian languages.
- 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: Kildin Sámi Target entity description: Kildin Sámi is a Uralic language spoken by the Sámi people primarily on Russia’s Kola Peninsula.
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A.
Sámi
The Sámi are an Indigenous Finno-Ugric people of northern Europe, traditionally known for reindeer herding, fishing, and a distinct cultural and linguistic heritage across parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia.
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B.
Yugtun
Yugtun is the Central Alaskan Yup’ik language spoken by Yup’ik people in western and southwestern Alaska.
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C.
Inari Sámi
Inari Sámi is a Uralic minority language spoken primarily around Lake Inari in northern Finland by the Inari Sámi people.
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D.
Kalaallisut
Kalaallisut is the Greenlandic Inuit language, an Eskimo–Aleut tongue spoken primarily in Greenland and serving as the territory’s official language.
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E.
Elfdalian
Elfdalian is a highly conservative North Germanic language spoken in the Älvdalen region of Sweden, preserving many archaic features lost in other Scandinavian languages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sámi language
ⓘ
Uralic language ⓘ endangered language ⓘ minority language ⓘ |
| belongsTo |
Finno-Ugric languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Finno-Ugric group (traditional classification)
|
| branch |
Eastern Sámi languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Sámi
|
| closelyRelatedTo |
North Sámi
ⓘ
Skolt Sami language ⓘ
surface form:
Skolt Sámi
Ter Sámi ⓘ |
| country |
Russia
ⓘ
surface form:
Russian Federation
|
| endangermentStatus | severely endangered ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Kildin Sámi
ⓘ
surface form:
Kildin Saami
Kildin Sámi ⓘ
surface form:
Kildin Sami
Kolt Saami ⓘ |
| hasCaseSystem | multiple grammatical cases ⓘ |
| hasDialects | Ter-type varieties ⓘ |
| hasEarlierWritingSystems | Latin-based orthographies (historical) ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | kild1238 ⓘ |
| hasGlottologName |
Kildin Sámi
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Kildin Sami
|
| hasGrammaticalCategory |
grammatical number
ⓘ
grammatical person ⓘ |
| hasISO639-3Code | sjd ⓘ |
| hasLoanwordsFrom | Russian language ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
agglutinative morphology
ⓘ
consonant gradation ⓘ rich case system ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfSpeakersEstimate | hundreds of speakers ⓘ |
| hasOrthographyStandardized | 20th century ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
palatalized consonants
ⓘ
vowel length contrast ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | SVO-dominant ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | Kola Peninsula ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Russian language ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Uralic languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Uralic
|
| recognizedAs | minority language in Russia ⓘ |
| region | Murmansk Oblast ⓘ |
| spokenBy |
Kildin Sámi
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Kildin Sámi people
Sámi ⓘ
surface form:
Sámi people
|
| spokenIn |
Kola Peninsula
ⓘ
Russia ⓘ |
| subfamily | Saamic ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
language revitalization efforts
ⓘ
linguistic documentation projects ⓘ |
| taughtIn | some schools in Murmansk Oblast ⓘ |
| usedFor |
folklore
ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ traditional reindeer herding terminology ⓘ |
| usedIn | traditional Sámi cultural contexts ⓘ |
| usesAlphabet | extended Cyrillic alphabet ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Cyrillic 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: Kildin Sámi Description of subject: Kildin Sámi is a Uralic language spoken by the Sámi people primarily on Russia’s Kola Peninsula.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Kildin Sami
this entity surface form:
Kildin Sami
this entity surface form:
Kildin Sami
this entity surface form:
North Sami
this entity surface form:
Kildin Sami
this entity surface form:
Kildin Sami language
this entity surface form:
Kildin Sámi people
this entity surface form:
Kildin Sami
this entity surface form:
Kildin Sami
this entity surface form:
Kildin Saami
this entity surface form:
Kildin Sami language
subject surface form:
Ter Sámi
this entity surface form:
Kildin Sami
this entity surface form:
Kildin Sami
this entity surface form:
Kildin Sami
this entity surface form:
Kildin Sami
this entity surface form:
Kildin Sami