Bear River Athabaskan
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Bear River Athabaskan is an extinct Athabaskan language once spoken by Indigenous people along California’s northwestern coast.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bear River language | 3 |
| Bear River Athabaskan canonical | 1 |
| Mattole-Bear River Athabaskan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10778424 — 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: Bear River Athabaskan Context triple: [Pacific Coast Athabaskan, hasMemberLanguage, Bear River Athabaskan]
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A.
Koyukon Athabaskan
Koyukon Athabaskan is an Athabaskan (Dene) language spoken by the Koyukon people of interior Alaska.
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B.
Lemhi Shoshone
The Lemhi Shoshone are a Native American band of the Shoshone people traditionally based in the Lemhi River Valley of present-day Idaho.
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C.
Nakota
The Nakota are a Native American people of the Northern Plains, closely related to the Dakota and Lakota, with a rich cultural heritage that includes distinct Siouan language dialects, ceremonial traditions, and historical ties to regions of present-day Canada and the United States.
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D.
Blackfoot
The Blackfoot are a Native American people known for their nomadic buffalo-hunting culture, warrior traditions, and historic presence across the northern Great Plains of what is now the United States and Canada.
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E.
North Slavey
North Slavey is an Athabaskan Indigenous language spoken primarily by the Slavey (Dene) people in Canada’s Northwest Territories.
- 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: Bear River Athabaskan Target entity description: Bear River Athabaskan is an extinct Athabaskan language once spoken by Indigenous people along California’s northwestern coast.
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A.
Koyukon Athabaskan
Koyukon Athabaskan is an Athabaskan (Dene) language spoken by the Koyukon people of interior Alaska.
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B.
Lemhi Shoshone
The Lemhi Shoshone are a Native American band of the Shoshone people traditionally based in the Lemhi River Valley of present-day Idaho.
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C.
Nakota
The Nakota are a Native American people of the Northern Plains, closely related to the Dakota and Lakota, with a rich cultural heritage that includes distinct Siouan language dialects, ceremonial traditions, and historical ties to regions of present-day Canada and the United States.
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D.
Blackfoot
The Blackfoot are a Native American people known for their nomadic buffalo-hunting culture, warrior traditions, and historic presence across the northern Great Plains of what is now the United States and Canada.
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E.
North Slavey
North Slavey is an Athabaskan Indigenous language spoken primarily by the Slavey (Dene) people in Canada’s Northwest Territories.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Athabaskan language
ⓘ
Na-Dene language ⓘ extinct language ⓘ |
| category |
Extinct languages of North America
ⓘ
Indigenous languages of California ⓘ Pacific Coast Athabaskan languages ⓘ
linked to:
Pacific Coast Athabaskan
|
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| ethnicity | Bear River people ⓘ |
| extinctionReason | language shift to English ⓘ |
| glottologCode | bear1247 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Bear River ⓘ |
| iso639-3 | none ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Athabaskan ⓘ |
| macroFamily | Na-Dene ⓘ |
| partOf |
California Athabaskan languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Pacific Coast Athabaskan
Pacific Coast Athabaskan languages ⓘ
linked to:
Pacific Coast Athabaskan
|
| region | Bear River area of Humboldt County, California ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Hupa language
ⓘ
Mattole language ⓘ Tolowa language ⓘ
linked to:
Tolowa
Wailaki language ⓘ |
| spokenBy |
Bear River Band of Rohnerville Rancheria ancestors
ⓘ
Indigenous peoples of northwestern California ⓘ
linked to:
Indigenous peoples of California
|
| spokenIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
northwestern California ⓘ
linked to:
Northern California
|
| status | extinct ⓘ |
| subfamily | Pacific Coast Athabaskan ⓘ |
| subgroup |
California Athabaskan
ⓘ
linked to:
Pacific Coast Athabaskan
|
| writingSystem | none or undocumented traditional writing system ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Bear River Athabaskan Description of subject: Bear River Athabaskan is an extinct Athabaskan language once spoken by Indigenous people along California’s northwestern coast.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Bear River Athabaskan
linked to: Bear River Athabaskan
linked to: Bear River Athabaskan
linked to: Bear River Athabaskan