Mammalia
E145943
Mammalia is the vertebrate class of warm-blooded, typically fur-bearing animals that nourish their young with milk produced by mammary glands.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1287414 — 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: Mammalia Context triple: [northern white rhinoceros, class, Mammalia]
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A.
Eutheria
Eutheria is a major clade of mammals that includes all placental mammals and their extinct relatives, characterized by prolonged gestation and complex placental development.
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B.
Carnivora
Carnivora is a diverse order of primarily meat-eating mammals that includes families such as bears, cats, dogs, weasels, and seals.
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C.
Artiodactyla
Artiodactyla is a large order of even-toed hoofed mammals that includes animals such as deer, cattle, pigs, and camels.
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D.
Rodentia
Rodentia is the largest order of mammals, comprising rodents such as mice, rats, squirrels, and beavers, characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each jaw.
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E.
Whippomorpha
Whippomorpha is a mammalian clade that includes whales, dolphins, and hippopotamuses, uniting these seemingly disparate animals based on shared evolutionary ancestry.
- 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: Mammalia Target entity description: Mammalia is the vertebrate class of warm-blooded, typically fur-bearing animals that nourish their young with milk produced by mammary glands.
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A.
Eutheria
Eutheria is a major clade of mammals that includes all placental mammals and their extinct relatives, characterized by prolonged gestation and complex placental development.
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B.
Carnivora
Carnivora is a diverse order of primarily meat-eating mammals that includes families such as bears, cats, dogs, weasels, and seals.
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C.
Artiodactyla
Artiodactyla is a large order of even-toed hoofed mammals that includes animals such as deer, cattle, pigs, and camels.
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D.
Rodentia
Rodentia is the largest order of mammals, comprising rodents such as mice, rats, squirrels, and beavers, characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each jaw.
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E.
Whippomorpha
Whippomorpha is a mammalian clade that includes whales, dolphins, and hippopotamuses, uniting these seemingly disparate animals based on shared evolutionary ancestry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (71)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
clade
ⓘ
taxonomic class ⓘ |
| bloodType | red blood cells without nuclei ⓘ |
| bodyPlan | bilaterally symmetrical ⓘ |
| circulatorySystem | closed circulatory system ⓘ |
| domain |
Eukaryota
ⓘ
linked to:
Eukarya
|
| evolvedFrom |
synapsid ancestors
ⓘ
therapsids ⓘ |
| feedingType |
carnivorous (in many species)
ⓘ
herbivorous (in many species) ⓘ omnivorous (in many species) ⓘ |
| fossilRecordOrigin | Late Triassic ⓘ |
| habitat |
freshwater environments
ⓘ
marine environments ⓘ terrestrial environments ⓘ |
| hasApproximateSpeciesCount | about 6500 living species ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
diaphragm
ⓘ
endothermic ⓘ endothermic metabolism ⓘ four-chambered heart ⓘ hair or fur ⓘ heterodont dentition ⓘ internal fertilization ⓘ mammary glands ⓘ milk production ⓘ neocortex ⓘ single-boned lower jaw ⓘ three middle ear bones ⓘ warm-blooded ⓘ |
| hasLifeHistoryTrait |
extended juvenile development
ⓘ
parental care of young ⓘ |
| hasNervousSystemFeature |
advanced sensory systems
ⓘ
well-developed brain ⓘ |
| includesInfraclass |
Placentalia
ⓘ
linked to:
Eutheria
|
| includesOrder |
Artiodactyla
ⓘ
Carnivora ⓘ Cetacea ⓘ Chiroptera ⓘ Didelphimorphia ⓘ Diprotodontia ⓘ Lagomorpha ⓘ Perissodactyla ⓘ Primates ⓘ Proboscidea ⓘ Rodentia ⓘ Sirenia ⓘ Xenarthra ⓘ |
| includesSpecies |
Balaenoptera musculus
ⓘ
linked to:
Balaenoptera
Bos taurus ⓘ Canis lupus familiaris ⓘ Equus caballus ⓘ
linked to:
Konik horses
Felis catus ⓘ Homo sapiens ⓘ Loxodonta africana ⓘ
linked to:
African bush elephant
Macropus rufus ⓘ
linked to:
Macropus
Ornithorhynchus anatinus ⓘ Pan troglodytes ⓘ |
| includesSubclass |
Eutheria
ⓘ
Marsupialia ⓘ Monotremata ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| locomotion |
bipedal (in some species)
ⓘ
powered flight (in bats) ⓘ quadrupedal (in many species) ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproductionType |
oviparous (in monotremes)
ⓘ
viviparous (in most species) ⓘ |
| respiration | lungs ⓘ |
| subphylum | Vertebrata ⓘ |
| superclass | Tetrapoda ⓘ |
| taxonRank | class ⓘ |
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: Mammalia Description of subject: Mammalia is the vertebrate class of warm-blooded, typically fur-bearing animals that nourish their young with milk produced by mammary glands.
Referenced by (1,169)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.