Irish Sign Language Corpus Project
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The Irish Sign Language Corpus Project is a linguistic research initiative that collects, annotates, and analyzes video data of Irish Sign Language use to support documentation, teaching, and linguistic study of the language.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Irish Sign Language Corpus Project canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11029655 — 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: Irish Sign Language Corpus Project Context triple: [Irish Sign Language, hasCorpusProject, Irish Sign Language Corpus Project]
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A.
Irish Sign Language
Irish Sign Language is the primary sign language of the Deaf community in Ireland, historically shaped by Catholic educational traditions and distinct from both British and American sign languages.
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B.
The Language Archive
The Language Archive is a poignant stage play by Julia Cho that explores love, communication, and the limits of language through the story of a linguist struggling to understand the people closest to him.
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C.
Irish dialect continuum
The Irish dialect continuum is the range of mutually intelligible regional varieties of the Irish language spoken across Ireland, including major dialects such as Munster, Connacht, and Ulster Irish.
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D.
Irish Dialects Past and Present
Irish Dialects Past and Present is a seminal linguistic study by T. F. O'Rahilly that analyzes the historical development and regional variation of the Irish language.
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E.
20-Year Strategy for the Irish Language 2010–2030
The 20-Year Strategy for the Irish Language 2010–2030 is the Irish Government’s long-term national plan to increase the number of daily Irish speakers and strengthen the language’s use in education, public life, and Gaeltacht and non-Gaeltacht communities.
- 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: Irish Sign Language Corpus Project Target entity description: The Irish Sign Language Corpus Project is a linguistic research initiative that collects, annotates, and analyzes video data of Irish Sign Language use to support documentation, teaching, and linguistic study of the language.
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A.
Irish Sign Language
Irish Sign Language is the primary sign language of the Deaf community in Ireland, historically shaped by Catholic educational traditions and distinct from both British and American sign languages.
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B.
The Language Archive
The Language Archive is a poignant stage play by Julia Cho that explores love, communication, and the limits of language through the story of a linguist struggling to understand the people closest to him.
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C.
Irish dialect continuum
The Irish dialect continuum is the range of mutually intelligible regional varieties of the Irish language spoken across Ireland, including major dialects such as Munster, Connacht, and Ulster Irish.
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D.
Irish Dialects Past and Present
Irish Dialects Past and Present is a seminal linguistic study by T. F. O'Rahilly that analyzes the historical development and regional variation of the Irish language.
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E.
20-Year Strategy for the Irish Language 2010–2030
The 20-Year Strategy for the Irish Language 2010–2030 is the Irish Government’s long-term national plan to increase the number of daily Irish speakers and strengthen the language’s use in education, public life, and Gaeltacht and non-Gaeltacht communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
linguistic research project
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sign language corpus project ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
create a digital corpus of Irish Sign Language
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document Irish Sign Language ⓘ support linguistic research on Irish Sign Language ⓘ support teaching of Irish Sign Language ⓘ |
| applies | corpus-based methods to sign language ⓘ |
| collects |
metadata about signers
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video recordings of Irish Sign Language signers ⓘ |
| contributesTo |
evidence-based Irish Sign Language teaching
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preservation of Irish Sign Language ⓘ standardization efforts in Irish Sign Language ⓘ |
| countryOfFocus | Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dataType |
multimodal language data
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time-aligned annotations ⓘ video recordings ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Irish Sign Language studies
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corpus linguistics ⓘ sign language linguistics ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
Irish Sign Language
NERFINISHED
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documentation of a minority language ⓘ visual-gestural language data ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | ISL Corpus Project NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMethod |
annotation of sign language data
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collection of naturalistic language data ⓘ linguistic analysis ⓘ |
| hasOutput |
annotated video files
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linguistic datasets for Irish Sign Language ⓘ searchable corpus of Irish Sign Language ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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Irish Sign Language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| produces |
annotated sign language corpus
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linguistic descriptions of Irish Sign Language ⓘ |
| researchArea |
documentation of sign languages
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sign language corpus annotation ⓘ |
| studies |
discourse in Irish Sign Language
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grammar of Irish Sign Language ⓘ lexicon of Irish Sign Language ⓘ variation in Irish Sign Language ⓘ |
| subjectOf | academic publications on Irish Sign Language ⓘ |
| supports |
development of teaching materials for Irish Sign Language
ⓘ
research on Irish Sign Language acquisition ⓘ research on Irish Sign Language variation ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
Irish Sign Language teachers
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linguists ⓘ sign language researchers ⓘ students of Irish Sign Language ⓘ |
| usesMedium | video data ⓘ |
| usesTool | sign language annotation software ⓘ |
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: Irish Sign Language Corpus Project Description of subject: The Irish Sign Language Corpus Project is a linguistic research initiative that collects, annotates, and analyzes video data of Irish Sign Language use to support documentation, teaching, and linguistic study of the language.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.