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.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eastern Siouan languages | 1 |
| Siouan–Catawban | 1 |
| Southeastern Siouan canonical | 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]
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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.
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B.
Plains Algonquian
Plains Algonquian is a branch of the Algonquian language family traditionally spoken by Indigenous peoples of the North American Great Plains.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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B.
Plains Algonquian
Plains Algonquian is a branch of the Algonquian language family traditionally spoken by Indigenous peoples of the North American Great Plains.
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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.
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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.
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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
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Eastern Siouan languages
subject surface form:
Macro-Siouan
this entity surface form:
Siouan–Catawban