Kaqchikel
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Kaqchikel is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Kaqchikel people in the central highlands of Guatemala.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kaqchikel Maya | 19 |
| Kaqchikel canonical | 14 |
| Kaqchikel language | 12 |
| Kaqchikel dialect continuum | 2 |
| Kaqchiquel | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T705437 — 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: Kaqchikel Context triple: [Guatemala, recognizedLanguage, Kaqchikel]
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A.
Zapotec
The Zapotec are an indigenous Mesoamerican people primarily from the Oaxaca region of southern Mexico, known for their ancient civilization, distinctive language family, and rich cultural traditions.
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B.
Quechan language
The Quechan language is a Native American language spoken by the Quechan (Yuma) people of the lower Colorado River region in the southwestern United States.
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C.
Kichwa
Kichwa is a Quechuan indigenous language variety widely spoken by Andean communities in Ecuador and neighboring regions.
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D.
Amuzgo
The Amuzgo are an indigenous Mesoamerican people primarily inhabiting the mountainous regions of Guerrero and Oaxaca in southern Mexico, known for their distinct language and rich textile-weaving traditions.
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E.
Chemehuevi language
Chemehuevi language is a critically endangered Uto-Aztecan language traditionally spoken by the Chemehuevi people of the Great Basin region in the southwestern United States.
- 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: Kaqchikel Target entity description: Kaqchikel is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Kaqchikel people in the central highlands of Guatemala.
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A.
Zapotec
The Zapotec are an indigenous Mesoamerican people primarily from the Oaxaca region of southern Mexico, known for their ancient civilization, distinctive language family, and rich cultural traditions.
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B.
Quechan language
The Quechan language is a Native American language spoken by the Quechan (Yuma) people of the lower Colorado River region in the southwestern United States.
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C.
Kichwa
Kichwa is a Quechuan indigenous language variety widely spoken by Andean communities in Ecuador and neighboring regions.
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D.
Amuzgo
The Amuzgo are an indigenous Mesoamerican people primarily inhabiting the mountainous regions of Guerrero and Oaxaca in southern Mexico, known for their distinct language and rich textile-weaving traditions.
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E.
Chemehuevi language
Chemehuevi language is a critically endangered Uto-Aztecan language traditionally spoken by the Chemehuevi people of the Great Basin region in the southwestern United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mayan language
ⓘ
indigenous language ⓘ language of Guatemala ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Kʼicheʼ language
ⓘ
Tzʼutujil Maya ⓘ
surface form:
Tzʼutujil language
|
| country | Guatemala ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Kaqchikel people ⓘ |
| family | Mayan language family ⓘ |
| glottocode | kaqc1270 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Cakchiquel
ⓘ
Kaqchikel ⓘ
surface form:
Kaqchiquel
|
| hasDialect |
Santa María de Jesús Kaqchikel
ⓘ
surface form:
Antigua Kaqchikel
San Andrés Itzapa Kaqchikel ⓘ San Juan Sacatepéquez Kaqchikel ⓘ Santa María de Jesús Kaqchikel ⓘ Sololá ⓘ
surface form:
Sololá Kaqchikel
|
| hasDigitalPresence |
used in community radio broadcasting
ⓘ
used on social media ⓘ |
| hasGrammaticalFeature |
ergative–absolutive alignment
ⓘ
head-marking morphology ⓘ rich aspectual system ⓘ set A and set B person markers ⓘ verb–initial basic word order ⓘ |
| hasLiteraryTradition |
modern written literature
ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ |
| hasOfficialRecognition | recognized as a national language of Guatemala ⓘ |
| hasOrganization | Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length (in some analyses)
ⓘ
glottalized consonants ⓘ |
| iso639-3 | cak ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Mayan ⓘ |
| languageOf | Kaqchikel people ⓘ |
| macrolanguage | Mayan languages ⓘ |
| region | departments of Chimaltenango, Sacatepéquez, Sololá and surrounding areas ⓘ |
| scriptDirection | left-to-right ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Guatemala
ⓘ
central highlands of Guatemala ⓘ |
| standardizationBody | Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala ⓘ |
| subfamily | Quichean–Mamean ⓘ |
| subgroup |
Mayan languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Kʼicheʼan languages
|
| typologicalFeature |
agglutinative morphology
ⓘ
predicate-initial clauses (often VOS or VSO) ⓘ |
| usedFor |
daily communication
ⓘ
oral literature ⓘ traditional ceremonies ⓘ |
| usedInEducation | bilingual education programs in Guatemala ⓘ |
| 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: Kaqchikel Description of subject: Kaqchikel is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Kaqchikel people in the central highlands of Guatemala.
Referenced by (49)
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Kaqchikel Maya
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Kaqchikel Maya
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Kaqchikel language
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Kaqchikel Maya
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Kaqchiquel
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Kaqchikel language
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Kaqchikel language
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Kaqchikel Maya
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Kaqchikel Maya
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Kaqchikel Maya
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Kaqchikel language
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Kaqchikel Maya
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Kaqchikel language
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Kaqchikel Maya
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Kaqchikel Maya
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Kaqchikel language
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Kaqchikel Maya
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Kaqchikel Maya
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Kaqchikel Maya
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Kaqchikel Maya
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Kaqchikel language
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Kaqchikel language
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Kaqchikel Maya
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Kaqchikel language
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Kaqchikel dialect continuum
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Kaqchikel language
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Kaqchikel Maya
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Kaqchiquel
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Kaqchikel Maya
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Kaqchikel Maya
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Kaqchikel language
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Kaqchikel dialect continuum
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Kaqchikel Maya