Feliformia
E170448
Feliformia is a suborder of carnivorous mammals that includes cats, hyenas, mongooses, and related species characterized by specialized skull and dental features.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Feliformia canonical | 18 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1500291 — 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: Feliformia Context triple: [Carnivora, includesSuborder, Feliformia]
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A.
Felidae
Felidae is the biological family of cats, encompassing all modern and extinct species of wild and domestic felines such as lions, tigers, leopards, and house cats.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Canidae
Canidae is the biological family of carnivorous and omnivorous mammals that includes dogs, wolves, foxes, jackals, and related canids.
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E.
Tremarctinae
Tremarctinae is a subfamily of bears that includes the living spectacled bear and several extinct short-faced bears of the Americas.
- 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: Feliformia Target entity description: Feliformia is a suborder of carnivorous mammals that includes cats, hyenas, mongooses, and related species characterized by specialized skull and dental features.
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A.
Felidae
Felidae is the biological family of cats, encompassing all modern and extinct species of wild and domestic felines such as lions, tigers, leopards, and house cats.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Canidae
Canidae is the biological family of carnivorous and omnivorous mammals that includes dogs, wolves, foxes, jackals, and related canids.
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E.
Tremarctinae
Tremarctinae is a subfamily of bears that includes the living spectacled bear and several extinct short-faced bears of the Americas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mammal suborder
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taxon ⓘ |
| characterizedBy |
more rounded auditory bullae (in many families)
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shorter rostrum compared to caniforms ⓘ specialized dental features ⓘ specialized skull features ⓘ |
| class | Mammalia ⓘ |
| containsExtantSpecies | true ⓘ |
| containsFossilTaxa | true ⓘ |
| diet | carnivorous ⓘ |
| distinguishedFrom | Caniformia by skull and auditory bulla structure ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole |
apex predator (some species)
ⓘ
mesopredator ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution |
Africa
ⓘ
Eurasia ⓘ Madagascar ⓘ worldwide (some lineages) ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
digitigrade locomotion in most species
ⓘ
well-developed carnassial teeth ⓘ |
| hasCommonName | feliforms ⓘ |
| hasHabitat |
desert habitats
ⓘ
forest habitats ⓘ savanna habitats ⓘ terrestrial ecosystems ⓘ tropical habitats ⓘ |
| hasMemberClade |
Eupleridae
ⓘ
Felidae ⓘ Herpestidae ⓘ Hyaenidae ⓘ Nandiniidae ⓘ Viverridae ⓘ |
| higherClassification |
Eutheria
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Placentalia ⓘ Theria ⓘ |
| includesOrganismType |
cats
ⓘ
civets ⓘ genets ⓘ hyenas ⓘ mongooses ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| order | Carnivora ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproductiveMode | viviparous ⓘ |
| sisterGroup | Caniformia ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf | Carnivora ⓘ |
| taxonRank | suborder ⓘ |
| thermoregulation | endothermic ⓘ |
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: Feliformia Description of subject: Feliformia is a suborder of carnivorous mammals that includes cats, hyenas, mongooses, and related species characterized by specialized skull and dental features.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.