Scandentia
E197123
Scandentia is an order of small, arboreal mammals known as treeshrews, native to tropical forests of Southeast Asia and once considered close relatives of primates.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Scandentia canonical | 9 |
| Euarchonta | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1742319 — 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: Scandentia Context triple: [Eutheria, includes, Scandentia]
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A.
Eulipotyphla
Eulipotyphla is an order of small insectivorous mammals that includes shrews, moles, hedgehogs, and related species.
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B.
Peramelemorphia
Peramelemorphia is an order of Australasian marsupials that includes bandicoots and bilbies, characterized by their pointed snouts, omnivorous diet, and burrowing habits.
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C.
Sciuromorpha
Sciuromorpha is a rodent suborder that primarily includes squirrels and their close relatives, characterized by specialized jaw and skull adaptations for gnawing.
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D.
Phalangeriformes
Phalangeriformes is a suborder of marsupials that includes possums and cuscuses, primarily native to Australasia and known for their arboreal lifestyles.
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E.
Vombatiformes
Vombatiformes is a suborder of marsupials that includes wombats and the koala, characterized by stout bodies and herbivorous diets.
- 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: Scandentia Target entity description: Scandentia is an order of small, arboreal mammals known as treeshrews, native to tropical forests of Southeast Asia and once considered close relatives of primates.
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A.
Eulipotyphla
Eulipotyphla is an order of small insectivorous mammals that includes shrews, moles, hedgehogs, and related species.
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B.
Peramelemorphia
Peramelemorphia is an order of Australasian marsupials that includes bandicoots and bilbies, characterized by their pointed snouts, omnivorous diet, and burrowing habits.
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C.
Sciuromorpha
Sciuromorpha is a rodent suborder that primarily includes squirrels and their close relatives, characterized by specialized jaw and skull adaptations for gnawing.
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D.
Phalangeriformes
Phalangeriformes is a suborder of marsupials that includes possums and cuscuses, primarily native to Australasia and known for their arboreal lifestyles.
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E.
Vombatiformes
Vombatiformes is a suborder of marsupials that includes wombats and the koala, characterized by stout bodies and herbivorous diets.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Scandentia Description of subject: Scandentia is an order of small, arboreal mammals known as treeshrews, native to tropical forests of Southeast Asia and once considered close relatives of primates.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.