Diapsida
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Diapsida is a major clade of reptiles characterized by two temporal skull openings, encompassing groups such as lizards, snakes, crocodilians, and birds.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Diapsida canonical | 20 |
| Archosauromorpha | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1584496 — 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: Diapsida Context triple: [Aves, hasSubgroup, Diapsida]
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A.
Squamata
Squamata is the large order of reptiles that includes all lizards, snakes, and amphisbaenians, characterized by their scaled skin and movable quadrate bones.
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B.
Reptilia
Reptilia is a major vertebrate class comprising reptiles such as turtles, lizards, snakes, and crocodiles, typically characterized by scaly skin and laying shelled eggs on land.
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C.
Cryptodira
Cryptodira is a major suborder of turtles characterized by their ability to retract the head straight back into the shell by bending the neck in a vertical S-shaped curve.
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D.
Theropoda
Theropoda is a major group of mostly bipedal, primarily carnivorous dinosaurs that includes famous species like Tyrannosaurus rex and the ancestors of modern birds.
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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: Diapsida Target entity description: Diapsida is a major clade of reptiles characterized by two temporal skull openings, encompassing groups such as lizards, snakes, crocodilians, and birds.
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A.
Squamata
Squamata is the large order of reptiles that includes all lizards, snakes, and amphisbaenians, characterized by their scaled skin and movable quadrate bones.
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B.
Reptilia
Reptilia is a major vertebrate class comprising reptiles such as turtles, lizards, snakes, and crocodiles, typically characterized by scaly skin and laying shelled eggs on land.
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C.
Cryptodira
Cryptodira is a major suborder of turtles characterized by their ability to retract the head straight back into the shell by bending the neck in a vertical S-shaped curve.
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D.
Theropoda
Theropoda is a major group of mostly bipedal, primarily carnivorous dinosaurs that includes famous species like Tyrannosaurus rex and the ancestors of modern birds.
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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 (49)
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: Diapsida Description of subject: Diapsida is a major clade of reptiles characterized by two temporal skull openings, encompassing groups such as lizards, snakes, crocodilians, and birds.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Diapsida