Tremarctinae
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Tremarctinae is a subfamily of bears that includes the living spectacled bear and several extinct short-faced bears of the Americas.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tremarctinae canonical | 8 |
| Arctotherium | 1 |
| Tremarctos | 1 |
| Tremarctos ornatus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1368343 — 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: Tremarctinae Context triple: [Ursidae, hasSubfamily, Tremarctinae]
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A.
Ursidae
Ursidae is the biological family of mammals that includes bears, such as brown bears, polar bears, and black bears, characterized by large bodies, strong limbs, and omnivorous diets.
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B.
Nomadinae
Nomadinae is a subfamily of parasitic cuckoo bees within the family Apidae, known for laying their eggs in the nests of other bee species.
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C.
Hydropotes inermis
Hydropotes inermis, commonly known as the water deer, is a small East Asian deer species notable for its lack of antlers and prominent tusk-like canine teeth.
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D.
Burramyidae
Burramyidae is a family of small nocturnal marsupials known as pygmy possums, native to Australia and nearby regions.
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E.
Tragulidae
Tragulidae is a family of small, primitive, deer-like mammals known as chevrotains or mouse deer, found in parts of Africa and Asia.
- 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: Tremarctinae Target entity description: Tremarctinae is a subfamily of bears that includes the living spectacled bear and several extinct short-faced bears of the Americas.
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A.
Ursidae
Ursidae is the biological family of mammals that includes bears, such as brown bears, polar bears, and black bears, characterized by large bodies, strong limbs, and omnivorous diets.
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B.
Nomadinae
Nomadinae is a subfamily of parasitic cuckoo bees within the family Apidae, known for laying their eggs in the nests of other bee species.
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C.
Hydropotes inermis
Hydropotes inermis, commonly known as the water deer, is a small East Asian deer species notable for its lack of antlers and prominent tusk-like canine teeth.
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D.
Burramyidae
Burramyidae is a family of small nocturnal marsupials known as pygmy possums, native to Australia and nearby regions.
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E.
Tragulidae
Tragulidae is a family of small, primitive, deer-like mammals known as chevrotains or mouse deer, found in parts of Africa and Asia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Tremarctinae Description of subject: Tremarctinae is a subfamily of bears that includes the living spectacled bear and several extinct short-faced bears of the Americas.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Tremarctinae
linked to: Tremarctinae