Bos primigenius
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Bos primigenius, commonly known as the aurochs, was a large wild cattle species that once roamed much of Europe, Asia, and North Africa and is now extinct.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bos primigenius canonical | 6 |
| Bos primigenius (aurochs) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1997740 — 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: Bos primigenius Context triple: [Bos taurus, ancestralSpecies, Bos primigenius]
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A.
Cervus elaphus
Cervus elaphus, commonly known as the red deer, is a large, widespread species of deer native to Europe, parts of Asia, and North Africa, and is one of the most studied and culturally significant wild ungulates.
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B.
Bos taurus
Bos taurus is the domesticated cattle species widely raised worldwide for meat, milk, and labor.
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C.
Bison bison
Bison bison is the American bison, a large, hump-shouldered grazing mammal native to North America and a prominent symbol of the Great Plains.
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D.
Cervus
Cervus is a genus of large deer that includes species such as the red deer and wapiti, primarily native to Eurasia and parts of North America.
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E.
Bison
Bison is the official mascot of Howard University, symbolizing the institution’s strength, resilience, and historic legacy.
- 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: Bos primigenius Target entity description: Bos primigenius, commonly known as the aurochs, was a large wild cattle species that once roamed much of Europe, Asia, and North Africa and is now extinct.
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A.
Cervus elaphus
Cervus elaphus, commonly known as the red deer, is a large, widespread species of deer native to Europe, parts of Asia, and North Africa, and is one of the most studied and culturally significant wild ungulates.
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B.
Bos taurus
Bos taurus is the domesticated cattle species widely raised worldwide for meat, milk, and labor.
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C.
Bison bison
Bison bison is the American bison, a large, hump-shouldered grazing mammal native to North America and a prominent symbol of the Great Plains.
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D.
Cervus
Cervus is a genus of large deer that includes species such as the red deer and wapiti, primarily native to Eurasia and parts of North America.
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E.
Bison
Bison is the official mascot of Howard University, symbolizing the institution’s strength, resilience, and historic legacy.
- 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: Bos primigenius Description of subject: Bos primigenius, commonly known as the aurochs, was a large wild cattle species that once roamed much of Europe, Asia, and North Africa and is now extinct.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Bos primigenius