Tembe language
E890399
The Tembe language is an indigenous Tupi-Guarani language spoken by the Tembé people of northern Brazil.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tembe language canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10880233 — 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: Tembe language Context triple: [Tupian languages, includesLanguage, Tembe language]
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A.
Kalanga language
The Kalanga language is a Bantu language spoken primarily by the Kalanga people in parts of Botswana and southwestern Zimbabwe.
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B.
Sanglechi language
The Sanglechi language is an Eastern Iranian language spoken by a small community in the Sanglech Valley region of Afghanistan and Tajikistan.
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C.
Murle language
The Murle language is an Eastern Sudanic language spoken primarily by the Murle people of South Sudan.
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D.
Marakwet language
The Marakwet language is a Southern Nilotic language spoken by the Marakwet people of Kenya and is closely related to other Kalenjin languages such as Kipsigis.
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E.
Teke-Ngungwel language
The Teke-Ngungwel language is a Bantu language spoken by the Teke people in Central Africa, particularly in parts of the Republic of the Congo and neighboring regions.
- 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: Tembe language Target entity description: The Tembe language is an indigenous Tupi-Guarani language spoken by the Tembé people of northern Brazil.
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A.
Kalanga language
The Kalanga language is a Bantu language spoken primarily by the Kalanga people in parts of Botswana and southwestern Zimbabwe.
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B.
Sanglechi language
The Sanglechi language is an Eastern Iranian language spoken by a small community in the Sanglech Valley region of Afghanistan and Tajikistan.
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C.
Murle language
The Murle language is an Eastern Sudanic language spoken primarily by the Murle people of South Sudan.
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D.
Marakwet language
The Marakwet language is a Southern Nilotic language spoken by the Marakwet people of Kenya and is closely related to other Kalenjin languages such as Kipsigis.
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E.
Teke-Ngungwel language
The Teke-Ngungwel language is a Bantu language spoken by the Teke people in Central Africa, particularly in parts of the Republic of the Congo and neighboring regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Tupi–Guarani language
ⓘ
indigenous language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Tembé cultural heritage ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo | Tenetehara language ⓘ |
| country | Brazil ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | endangered ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Tembé people
ⓘ
linked to:
Munduruku people
|
| family | Tupian ⓘ |
| glottologCode | temb1276 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Tembé ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Tembé
ⓘ
Tenetehara-Tembé ⓘ |
| hasDomain | indigenous education in Brazil ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticTypology | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| hasPhylum | American indigenous languages ⓘ |
| hasSpeakers |
Tembé people
ⓘ
linked to:
Munduruku people
|
| hasStatus | minority language in Brazil ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | SOV (subject–object–verb) (typical for Tupi–Guarani; may vary) ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | tqb ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Amazonian languages
ⓘ
indigenous languages of Brazil ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf | studies in Tupi–Guarani linguistics ⓘ |
| languageBranch |
Tupi–Guarani
ⓘ
linked to:
Tupi–Guaraní
|
| languageFamily | Tupian ⓘ |
| nativeTo | Amazon region ⓘ |
| region | northern Brazil ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Brazil
ⓘ
Maranhão ⓘ Pará ⓘ northern Brazil ⓘ |
| subfamilyOf |
Tupi–Guarani branch
ⓘ
linked to:
Tupi–Guaraní
|
| usedBy | Tembé communities ⓘ |
| usedIn |
oral tradition of the Tembé people
ⓘ
traditional rituals of the Tembé people ⓘ |
| 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: Tembe language Description of subject: The Tembe language is an indigenous Tupi-Guarani language spoken by the Tembé people of northern Brazil.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.