Proto-Numic
E93355
Proto-Numic is the reconstructed common ancestor language of the Numic branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family, from which varieties like Southern Numic descended.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Proto-Numic canonical | 4 |
| Proto-Numic language | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T773959 — 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: Proto-Numic Context triple: [Southern Numic, hasAncestor, Proto-Numic]
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A.
Proto-Uto-Aztecan
Proto-Uto-Aztecan is the reconstructed common ancestor language from which all modern Uto-Aztecan languages are derived.
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B.
Uto-Aztecan
Uto-Aztecan is a large Native American language family of the Western United States and Mexico that includes languages such as Nahuatl, Hopi, and Ute.
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C.
Na-Dene
Na-Dene is a major Native North American language family that includes Athabaskan languages, Tlingit, and sometimes Eyak, noted for its complex phonology and verb morphology.
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D.
Southern Numic
Southern Numic is a branch of the Numic group of Uto-Aztecan languages spoken in parts of the southwestern United States.
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E.
Hokan languages
Hokan languages are a proposed but controversial grouping of several Native American language families of the western United States and Mexico that share certain typological and lexical similarities.
- 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: Proto-Numic Target entity description: Proto-Numic is the reconstructed common ancestor language of the Numic branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family, from which varieties like Southern Numic descended.
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A.
Proto-Uto-Aztecan
Proto-Uto-Aztecan is the reconstructed common ancestor language from which all modern Uto-Aztecan languages are derived.
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B.
Uto-Aztecan
Uto-Aztecan is a large Native American language family of the Western United States and Mexico that includes languages such as Nahuatl, Hopi, and Ute.
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C.
Na-Dene
Na-Dene is a major Native North American language family that includes Athabaskan languages, Tlingit, and sometimes Eyak, noted for its complex phonology and verb morphology.
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D.
Southern Numic
Southern Numic is a branch of the Numic group of Uto-Aztecan languages spoken in parts of the southwestern United States.
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E.
Hokan languages
Hokan languages are a proposed but controversial grouping of several Native American language families of the western United States and Mexico that share certain typological and lexical similarities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Uto-Aztecan language
ⓘ
proto-language ⓘ reconstructed language ⓘ |
| ancestorOf |
Central Numic
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Numic languages
Chemehuevi language ⓘ Comanche language ⓘ Kawaiisu language ⓘ Numic languages ⓘ
surface form:
Mono language (Western Numic)
Northern Paiute language ⓘ Northern Paiute language ⓘ
surface form:
Owens Valley Paiute language
Panamint (Koso) language ⓘ
surface form:
Panamint (Timbisha) language
Shoshoni language ⓘ Southern Numic ⓘ
surface form:
Southern Numic languages
Southern Paiute language ⓘ Ute language ⓘ Western Numic ⓘ
surface form:
Western Numic languages
|
| branch | Numic ⓘ |
| evidenceType | comparative evidence from modern Numic languages ⓘ |
| hasDescendantGroup | Numic languages ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
Uto-Aztecan-type nominal morphology
ⓘ
Uto-Aztecan-type verb morphology ⓘ ablaut or stem alternations (reconstructed) ⓘ contrastive consonant length (gemination) (reconstructed) ⓘ vowel length distinctions (reconstructed) ⓘ |
| hasLexicon | reconstructed basic vocabulary ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalSystem |
reconstructed consonant inventory
ⓘ
reconstructed vowel inventory ⓘ |
| hasReconstructionLevel |
lexical
ⓘ
morphological ⓘ phonological ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Uto-Aztecan ⓘ |
| partOf |
Numic branch
ⓘ
Uto-Aztecan ⓘ
surface form:
Uto-Aztecan language family
|
| reconstructedBy | historical linguists ⓘ |
| reconstructionMethod | comparative method ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Proto-Uto-Aztecan ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin
ⓘ
surface form:
Great Basin region (prehistory, reconstructed)
|
| status | unattested ⓘ |
| studiedInField |
Uto-Aztecan studies
ⓘ
historical linguistics ⓘ |
| subgroupOf | Northern Uto-Aztecan ⓘ |
| timeDepth | late Holocene (approximate, reconstructed) ⓘ |
| writingSystem | none (unwritten language) ⓘ |
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: Proto-Numic Description of subject: Proto-Numic is the reconstructed common ancestor language of the Numic branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family, from which varieties like Southern Numic descended.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Proto-Numic language