Maya yucateco
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Maya yucateco is a Mayan language spoken primarily in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula by the Yucatec Maya people.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maya yucateco canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11380211 — 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: Maya yucateco Context triple: [Yucatec Maya, alternativeName, Maya yucateco]
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A.
Cakchiquel
Cakchiquel is a Mayan language spoken primarily in the central highlands of Guatemala by the Kaqchikel people.
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B.
Yucatecan jarana
Yucatecan jarana is a traditional folk dance and musical style from Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, characterized by lively rhythms, zapateado footwork, and performances in regional attire.
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C.
Tojolabal Maya
Tojolabal Maya is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Tojolabal people in the Chiapas region of southern Mexico.
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D.
Kʼicheʼ Maya
The Kʼicheʼ Maya are an indigenous Maya people of the Guatemalan highlands, known for their rich linguistic and cultural heritage and for preserving traditions that predate the Spanish conquest.
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E.
Tzʼutujil Maya
The Tzʼutujil Maya are an Indigenous Maya people of the Guatemalan highlands known for their rich linguistic and cultural traditions, vibrant textiles, and communities around Lake Atitlán.
- 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: Maya yucateco Target entity description: Maya yucateco is a Mayan language spoken primarily in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula by the Yucatec Maya people.
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A.
Cakchiquel
Cakchiquel is a Mayan language spoken primarily in the central highlands of Guatemala by the Kaqchikel people.
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B.
Yucatecan jarana
Yucatecan jarana is a traditional folk dance and musical style from Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, characterized by lively rhythms, zapateado footwork, and performances in regional attire.
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C.
Tojolabal Maya
Tojolabal Maya is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Tojolabal people in the Chiapas region of southern Mexico.
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D.
Kʼicheʼ Maya
The Kʼicheʼ Maya are an indigenous Maya people of the Guatemalan highlands, known for their rich linguistic and cultural heritage and for preserving traditions that predate the Spanish conquest.
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E.
Tzʼutujil Maya
The Tzʼutujil Maya are an Indigenous Maya people of the Guatemalan highlands known for their rich linguistic and cultural traditions, vibrant textiles, and communities around Lake Atitlán.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mayan language
ⓘ
indigenous language of the Americas ⓘ language ⓘ |
| belongsToLanguageFamily |
Mayan language family
ⓘ
linked to:
Mayan languages
|
| belongsToSubfamily | Yucatecan branch of the Mayan languages ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Itzaj
ⓘ
Lacandon ⓘ Mopan ⓘ
linked to:
Mopan Maya
|
| hasAlignmentType | ergative–absolutive ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Maayaʼ tʼàan
ⓘ
Maya yucateca ⓘ Yucatec Maya ⓘ |
| hasBasicWordOrder |
VOS
ⓘ
VSO ⓘ |
| hasCulturalAssociation | Maya civilization heritage ⓘ |
| hasEndangermentStatus | vigorous in many communities but under pressure from Spanish ⓘ |
| hasEthnologueEntry | Yucatec Maya ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | yuca1254 ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalAncestor | Proto-Yucatecan ⓘ |
| hasISO639-1Code | none ⓘ |
| hasISO639-2Code | yua ⓘ |
| hasISO639-3Code | yua ⓘ |
| hasLinguasphereCode | 89-AAA-c ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive glottalized consonants
ⓘ
tone is not phonemic ⓘ vowel length distinction ⓘ |
| hasSpeakerPopulationStatus | hundreds of thousands of speakers ⓘ |
| hasStandardizationEffort | orthographic norms promoted by Mexican linguistic institutions ⓘ |
| inContactWithLanguage | Spanish ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Spanish ⓘ |
| influences | regional Spanish of the Yucatán Peninsula ⓘ |
| isOfficialLanguageIn | some municipalities of Yucatán Peninsula (local recognition) ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | national language of Mexico under the General Law of Linguistic Rights of Indigenous Peoples ⓘ |
| spokenByEthnicGroup |
Yucatec Maya people
ⓘ
linked to:
Yucatecan people
|
| spokenInCountry | Mexico ⓘ |
| spokenInRegion | Yucatán Peninsula ⓘ |
| spokenInState |
Campeche
ⓘ
linked to:
Campeche state
Quintana Roo ⓘ Yucatán ⓘ
linked to:
Yucatán state
|
| usedForWriting |
educational materials
ⓘ
literary works ⓘ religious texts ⓘ |
| usedInDomain |
bilingual education
ⓘ
daily communication ⓘ local media ⓘ oral literature ⓘ traditional ceremonies ⓘ |
| 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: Maya yucateco Description of subject: Maya yucateco is a Mayan language spoken primarily in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula by the Yucatec Maya people.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.