Canis
E197107
Canis is a genus of medium to large carnivorous mammals in the dog family that includes wolves, domestic dogs, coyotes, and closely related species.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Canis canonical | 4 |
| Canis arnensis | 1 |
| Canis dirus | 1 |
| Canis gezi | 1 |
| Canis himalayensis | 1 |
| Canis latrans | 1 |
| Canis rufus | 1 |
| Canis simensis | 1 |
| Dingo | 1 |
| Mexican gray wolf | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1740360 — 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: Canis Context triple: [Ethiopian wolf, genus, Canis]
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A.
Canis lupus familiaris
Canis lupus familiaris is the domestic dog, a widely kept companion animal and working species derived from the gray wolf.
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B.
Wolf
Wolf is a common German surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as scholarship, politics, and the arts.
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C.
Canidae
Canidae is the biological family of carnivorous and omnivorous mammals that includes dogs, wolves, foxes, jackals, and related canids.
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D.
Canino
Canino is a small town in the Lazio region of central Italy, historically notable as the birthplace of Pope Paul III.
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E.
Husky
Husky was the codename for the World War II Allied amphibious and airborne invasion of Sicily in July 1943, which marked a major step in the campaign to liberate Europe from Axis control.
- 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: Canis Target entity description: Canis is a genus of medium to large carnivorous mammals in the dog family that includes wolves, domestic dogs, coyotes, and closely related species.
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A.
Canis lupus familiaris
Canis lupus familiaris is the domestic dog, a widely kept companion animal and working species derived from the gray wolf.
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B.
Wolf
Wolf is a common German surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as scholarship, politics, and the arts.
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C.
Canidae
Canidae is the biological family of carnivorous and omnivorous mammals that includes dogs, wolves, foxes, jackals, and related canids.
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D.
Canino
Canino is a small town in the Lazio region of central Italy, historically notable as the birthplace of Pope Paul III.
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E.
Husky
Husky was the codename for the World War II Allied amphibious and airborne invasion of Sicily in July 1943, which marked a major step in the campaign to liberate Europe from Axis control.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (71)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | genus ⓘ |
| belongsTo | dog family Canidae ⓘ |
| class | Mammalia ⓘ |
| commonName | canines ⓘ |
| contains |
coyotes
ⓘ
domestic dogs ⓘ jackals ⓘ wolves ⓘ |
| describedAs | genus of medium to large carnivorous mammals ⓘ |
| diet | carnivorous ⓘ |
| family | Canidae ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Late Miocene ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution | worldwide ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
digitigrade locomotion
ⓘ
social behavior in many species ⓘ well-developed sense of smell ⓘ |
| hasChromosomeNumber | 78 in most species ⓘ |
| hasTeethType | carnassial teeth ⓘ |
| includesSpecies |
Canis accitanus
ⓘ
linked to:
Canis senezensis
Canis adustus ⓘ Canis anthus ⓘ Canis antonii ⓘ Canis apolloniensis ⓘ Canis armbrusteri ⓘ Canis arnensis ⓘ
linked to:
Canis
Canis aureus ⓘ Canis cedazoensis ⓘ Canis dirus ⓘ
linked to:
Canis
Canis edwardii ⓘ Canis etruscus ⓘ Canis falconeri ⓘ Canis familiaris ⓘ
linked to:
Canis lupus familiaris
Canis familiaris dingo ⓘ Canis ferox ⓘ Canis gezi ⓘ
linked to:
Canis
Canis himalayensis ⓘ
linked to:
Canis
Canis latrans ⓘ
linked to:
Canis
Canis lepophagus ⓘ Canis lupus ⓘ Canis lupus arctos ⓘ Canis lupus baileyi ⓘ
linked to:
Canis lupus
Canis lupus campestris ⓘ Canis lupus chanco ⓘ
linked to:
Canis lupus
Canis lupus columbianus ⓘ
linked to:
Canis lupus
Canis lupus dingo ⓘ Canis lupus familiaris ⓘ Canis lupus hodophilax ⓘ
linked to:
Canis lupus
Canis lupus italicus ⓘ
linked to:
Canis lupus
Canis lupus lycaon ⓘ Canis lupus occidentalis ⓘ
linked to:
Canis lupus
Canis lupus pallipes ⓘ Canis lupus rufus ⓘ
linked to:
Canis lupus
Canis lupus signatus ⓘ
linked to:
Canis lupus
Canis lycaon ⓘ Canis mesomelas ⓘ
linked to:
Canis adustus
Canis mosbachensis ⓘ Canis nehringi ⓘ Canis priscolatrans ⓘ Canis rufus ⓘ
linked to:
Canis
Canis senezensis ⓘ Canis simensis ⓘ
linked to:
Canis
Canis thooides ⓘ Canis variabilis ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| order | Carnivora ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproduction | viviparous ⓘ |
| subfamily | Caninae ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| tribe | Canini ⓘ |
| typeSpecies | Canis lupus ⓘ |
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: Canis Description of subject: Canis is a genus of medium to large carnivorous mammals in the dog family that includes wolves, domestic dogs, coyotes, and closely related species.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
Eurasian wolves
linked to: Canis
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linked to: Canis
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linked to: Canis