Wastek language
E860723
Wastek language is a Mayan language spoken by the Huastec people of northeastern Mexico, particularly in the states of San Luis Potosí and Veracruz.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wastek language canonical | 7 |
| Wastek languages | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10370572 — 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: Wastek language Context triple: [Huastec language, alternativeName, Wastek language]
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A.
Wokam language
The Wokam language is an Austronesian language spoken by a small community on Wokam Island in the Aru Islands of eastern Indonesia.
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B.
Wapishana language
The Wapishana language is an indigenous Arawakan language spoken primarily by the Wapishana people in parts of Brazil and Guyana.
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C.
Towa language
Towa is a Native American language spoken by the Towa (Jemez) people of New Mexico and is part of the Puebloan language family.
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D.
Wab language
The Wab language is a lesser-known Papuan language spoken by an indigenous community in Papua New Guinea.
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E.
Tawbuid language
The Tawbuid language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tawbuid (Batangan) Mangyan people of Mindoro in the Philippines, closely related to other South Mangyan 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: Wastek language Target entity description: Wastek language is a Mayan language spoken by the Huastec people of northeastern Mexico, particularly in the states of San Luis Potosí and Veracruz.
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A.
Wokam language
The Wokam language is an Austronesian language spoken by a small community on Wokam Island in the Aru Islands of eastern Indonesia.
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B.
Wapishana language
The Wapishana language is an indigenous Arawakan language spoken primarily by the Wapishana people in parts of Brazil and Guyana.
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C.
Towa language
Towa is a Native American language spoken by the Towa (Jemez) people of New Mexico and is part of the Puebloan language family.
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D.
Wab language
The Wab language is a lesser-known Papuan language spoken by an indigenous community in Papua New Guinea.
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E.
Tawbuid language
The Tawbuid language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tawbuid (Batangan) Mangyan people of Mindoro in the Philippines, closely related to other South Mangyan languages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Huastecan language
ⓘ
Mayan language ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Huastec language
ⓘ
Teenek ⓘ Tének ⓘ |
| belongsToMacroArea | Mesoamerica ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo | Chicomuceltec language (extinct) ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Huastec ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution |
Huasteca region
ⓘ
linked to:
La Huasteca Hidalguense
eastern San Luis Potosí ⓘ northern Veracruz ⓘ |
| glottocode | huas1242 ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Central Wastek
ⓘ
linked to:
Wastek
Eastern Wastek ⓘ Western Wastek ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
glottalized consonants ⓘ |
| iso639-3Code | hus ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Western Mayan–Huastecan split branch (Huastecan side) ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Mayan language family ⓘ |
| languageStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| recognizedBy | Mexican government as a national language ⓘ |
| regulatingBody |
Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas (INALI)
ⓘ
linked to:
Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas
|
| spokenBy |
Huastec people
ⓘ
linked to:
Huastec
|
| spokenInCountry | Mexico ⓘ |
| spokenInRegion | northeastern Mexico ⓘ |
| spokenInState |
San Luis Potosí
ⓘ
Veracruz ⓘ |
| subfamily | Huastecan branch of the Mayan family ⓘ |
| typologicalFeature |
agglutinative morphology
ⓘ
ergative–absolutive alignment ⓘ head-marking ⓘ |
| usedIn |
oral literature of the Huastec people
ⓘ
traditional Huastec rituals ⓘ |
| wordOrder |
VOS
ⓘ
VSO ⓘ |
| 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: Wastek language Description of subject: Wastek language is a Mayan language spoken by the Huastec people of northeastern Mexico, particularly in the states of San Luis Potosí and Veracruz.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Wastek language