Ponginae
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Ponginae is a subfamily of great apes that includes the orangutans and their extinct close relatives.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ponginae canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1526148 — 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: Ponginae Context triple: [Hominidae, includesTaxon, Ponginae]
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A.
Reduncinae
Reduncinae is a subfamily of African antelopes within the Bovidae family, including species such as reedbucks, kobs, and waterbucks that are typically associated with wetland and grassland habitats.
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B.
Masarinae
Masarinae is a subfamily of solitary, often pollen- and nectar-feeding wasps commonly known as pollen wasps, notable for their bee-like foraging behavior.
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C.
Pantholopinae
Pantholopinae is a subfamily of bovids that includes the Tibetan antelope and its close relatives, characterized by adaptations to high-altitude environments.
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D.
Apinae
Apinae is a large subfamily of bees that includes honey bees, bumblebees, and many other important pollinating species.
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E.
Zethinae
Zethinae is a subfamily of social wasps within the family Vespidae, comprising species known for their nest-building behavior and complex social organization.
- 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: Ponginae Target entity description: Ponginae is a subfamily of great apes that includes the orangutans and their extinct close relatives.
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A.
Reduncinae
Reduncinae is a subfamily of African antelopes within the Bovidae family, including species such as reedbucks, kobs, and waterbucks that are typically associated with wetland and grassland habitats.
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B.
Masarinae
Masarinae is a subfamily of solitary, often pollen- and nectar-feeding wasps commonly known as pollen wasps, notable for their bee-like foraging behavior.
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C.
Pantholopinae
Pantholopinae is a subfamily of bovids that includes the Tibetan antelope and its close relatives, characterized by adaptations to high-altitude environments.
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D.
Apinae
Apinae is a large subfamily of bees that includes honey bees, bumblebees, and many other important pollinating species.
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E.
Zethinae
Zethinae is a subfamily of social wasps within the family Vespidae, comprising species known for their nest-building behavior and complex social organization.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Ponginae Description of subject: Ponginae is a subfamily of great apes that includes the orangutans and their extinct close relatives.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.