Shui language
E893921
The Shui language is a Kam–Sui (Kra–Dai) language spoken primarily by the Shui ethnic group in Guizhou Province, China.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shui language canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10920786 — 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: Shui language Context triple: [Sui language, hasAlternativeName, Shui language]
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A.
Queyu language
The Queyu language is a lesser-known Sino-Tibetan tongue spoken by the Queyu (Choyo) people of western Sichuan, China, and is closely related to other Qiangic languages.
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B.
Chaoshan language
The Chaoshan language is a Southern Min Chinese variety spoken primarily in the Chaoshan region of eastern Guangdong, known for its distinct phonology and strong cultural identity among Teochew and Swatow communities.
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C.
Shina language
Shina language is an Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken by the Shina people in the mountainous regions of northern Pakistan and parts of neighboring areas.
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D.
Pinghua language
Pinghua language is a group of Sinitic (Chinese) dialects spoken primarily in parts of Guangxi and neighboring regions in southern China, often considered distinct from both Mandarin and Cantonese.
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E.
Siwu language
The Siwu language is a Niger-Congo language spoken primarily in the Volta Region of Ghana by the Mawu people.
- 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: Shui language Target entity description: The Shui language is a Kam–Sui (Kra–Dai) language spoken primarily by the Shui ethnic group in Guizhou Province, China.
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A.
Queyu language
The Queyu language is a lesser-known Sino-Tibetan tongue spoken by the Queyu (Choyo) people of western Sichuan, China, and is closely related to other Qiangic languages.
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B.
Chaoshan language
The Chaoshan language is a Southern Min Chinese variety spoken primarily in the Chaoshan region of eastern Guangdong, known for its distinct phonology and strong cultural identity among Teochew and Swatow communities.
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C.
Shina language
Shina language is an Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken by the Shina people in the mountainous regions of northern Pakistan and parts of neighboring areas.
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D.
Pinghua language
Pinghua language is a group of Sinitic (Chinese) dialects spoken primarily in parts of Guangxi and neighboring regions in southern China, often considered distinct from both Mandarin and Cantonese.
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E.
Siwu language
The Siwu language is a Niger-Congo language spoken primarily in the Volta Region of Ghana by the Mawu people.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Kam–Sui language
ⓘ
Kra–Dai language ⓘ Sinitic-region minority language ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Kam language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mak language NERFINISHED ⓘ Maonan language NERFINISHED ⓘ Sui–Maonan subgroup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contactLanguage |
Southwestern Mandarin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Standard Chinese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
China
ⓘ
surface form:
People's Republic of China
|
| endangermentStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Shui people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution |
Dushan County
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Huishui County NERFINISHED ⓘ Libo County NERFINISHED ⓘ Nandan County, Guangxi NERFINISHED ⓘ Pingtang County NERFINISHED ⓘ Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ Rongjiang County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| glottocode | shui1238 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName | Sui language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
Dushan dialect
ⓘ
Huishui dialect NERFINISHED ⓘ Libo dialect ⓘ Nandan dialect ⓘ Pingtang dialect ⓘ Rongjiang dialect ⓘ Sandu dialect ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive tones
ⓘ
syllable-final stops ⓘ tonal language ⓘ voiceless sonorants ⓘ |
| languageCodeISO639-3 | swi ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Kam–Sui
ⓘ
Kra–Dai ⓘ |
| minorityLanguageStatus | recognized minority language in China ⓘ |
| primaryRegion |
Sandu Shui Autonomous County
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Southern Guizhou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Southwest China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| scriptName | Shuishu ⓘ |
| scriptType | logographic script ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
China
ⓘ
Guizhou Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subfamily | Northern Kam–Sui NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| traditionalScriptUse |
divination texts
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religious manuscripts ⓘ ritual texts ⓘ |
| usedBy | Shui ethnic group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Chinese characters
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Shui script NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Shui language Description of subject: The Shui language is a Kam–Sui (Kra–Dai) language spoken primarily by the Shui ethnic group in Guizhou Province, China.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.