Oromerycidae
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Oromerycidae is an extinct family of early tylopod artiodactyls related to camel-like mammals that lived in North America during the Eocene.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Oromerycidae canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1998005 — 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: Oromerycidae Context triple: [Tylopoda, includesTaxon, Oromerycidae]
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A.
Oreocnide
Oreocnide is a genus of flowering plants in the nettle family Urticaceae, comprising species typically found in tropical and subtropical regions of Asia.
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B.
Odontophoridae
Odontophoridae is a family of New World quails, small ground-dwelling game birds known for their rounded bodies, short tails, and often elaborate head plumes.
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C.
Nomadinae
Nomadinae is a subfamily of parasitic cuckoo bees within the family Apidae, known for laying their eggs in the nests of other bee species.
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D.
Odobenidae
Odobenidae is the biological family that comprises walruses, large marine mammals known for their long tusks and Arctic habitat.
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E.
Remizidae
Remizidae is a family of small passerine birds known as penduline tits, recognized for their intricate, hanging nest constructions.
- 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: Oromerycidae Target entity description: Oromerycidae is an extinct family of early tylopod artiodactyls related to camel-like mammals that lived in North America during the Eocene.
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A.
Oreocnide
Oreocnide is a genus of flowering plants in the nettle family Urticaceae, comprising species typically found in tropical and subtropical regions of Asia.
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B.
Odontophoridae
Odontophoridae is a family of New World quails, small ground-dwelling game birds known for their rounded bodies, short tails, and often elaborate head plumes.
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C.
Nomadinae
Nomadinae is a subfamily of parasitic cuckoo bees within the family Apidae, known for laying their eggs in the nests of other bee species.
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D.
Odobenidae
Odobenidae is the biological family that comprises walruses, large marine mammals known for their long tusks and Arctic habitat.
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E.
Remizidae
Remizidae is a family of small passerine birds known as penduline tits, recognized for their intricate, hanging nest constructions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
extinct family of mammals
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prehistoric mammal family ⓘ taxon ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Cenozoic fauna of North America ⓘ |
| class | Mammalia ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| describedAs | early tylopod artiodactyls ⓘ |
| diet | herbivorous (inferred) ⓘ |
| fossilRecord | known from Eocene deposits in North America ⓘ |
| geologicalEpoch | Eocene ⓘ |
| hasMember | Oromeryx ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| livedIn | North America ⓘ |
| locomotion | terrestrial ⓘ |
| morphologicallySimilarTo | camel-like mammals ⓘ |
| order | Artiodactyla ⓘ |
| parentTaxon |
Artiodactyla
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Tylopoda ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Camelidae ⓘ |
| status | extinct ⓘ |
| suborderOrInfraorder | Tylopoda ⓘ |
| taxonRank | family ⓘ |
| temporalRange | Eocene ⓘ |
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: Oromerycidae Description of subject: Oromerycidae is an extinct family of early tylopod artiodactyls related to camel-like mammals that lived in North America during the Eocene.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.