Southeastern Siouan

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Southeastern Siouan is a branch of the Siouan language family comprising several historically related Indigenous languages once spoken in the southeastern United States.

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All labels observed (7)

Label	Occurrences
Eastern Siouan languages	10
Eastern Siouan	2
Siouan–Catawban	2
Catawban (Siouan) languages	1
Eastern Siouan language group	1
Southeastern Siouan canonical	1
Southeastern Siouan languages	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11810923 — 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: Southeastern Siouan
Context triple: [Biloxi language, languageBranch, Southeastern Siouan]

A. Waccamaw Siouan
The Waccamaw Siouan are a state-recognized Native American tribe of Siouan-speaking people historically associated with the coastal regions of present-day North and South Carolina.
B. Plains Algonquian
Plains Algonquian is a branch of the Algonquian language family traditionally spoken by Indigenous peoples of the North American Great Plains.
C. Siouan languages
Siouan languages are a family of Indigenous languages of North America historically spoken by numerous Native American peoples across the Great Plains, Midwest, and Southeast.
D. Crow–Hidatsa branch
The Crow–Hidatsa branch is a subgroup of the Siouan language family that includes the closely related Crow and Hidatsa languages historically spoken in the Northern Plains of the United States.
E. Central Algonquian
Central Algonquian is a major subgroup of the Algonquian branch of the Algic language family, comprising several closely related Indigenous languages of the Great Lakes and surrounding regions of North America.
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: Southeastern Siouan
Target entity description: Southeastern Siouan is a branch of the Siouan language family comprising several historically related Indigenous languages once spoken in the southeastern United States.

A. Waccamaw Siouan
The Waccamaw Siouan are a state-recognized Native American tribe of Siouan-speaking people historically associated with the coastal regions of present-day North and South Carolina.
B. Plains Algonquian
Plains Algonquian is a branch of the Algonquian language family traditionally spoken by Indigenous peoples of the North American Great Plains.
C. Siouan languages
Siouan languages are a family of Indigenous languages of North America historically spoken by numerous Native American peoples across the Great Plains, Midwest, and Southeast.
D. Crow–Hidatsa branch
The Crow–Hidatsa branch is a subgroup of the Siouan language family that includes the closely related Crow and Hidatsa languages historically spoken in the Northern Plains of the United States.
E. Central Algonquian
Central Algonquian is a major subgroup of the Algonquian branch of the Algic language family, comprising several closely related Indigenous languages of the Great Lakes and surrounding regions of North America.
F. None of above. chosen