Lepus
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Lepus is a genus of fast-running mammals commonly known as hares and jackrabbits, found across much of the world in open and semi-open habitats.
All labels observed (16)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jackrabbits | 4 |
| Arctic hare | 3 |
| Lepus canonical | 2 |
| Carolina Swamp Rabbit | 1 |
| European hare | 1 |
| Feldhase | 1 |
| Hare | 1 |
| Indian hare | 1 |
| Jackrabbit | 1 |
| Lepus capensis | 1 |
| Lepus fagani | 1 |
| Lepus flavigularis | 1 |
| Lepus habessinicus | 1 |
| Lepus nigricollis | 1 |
| Lepus saxatilis | 1 |
| Lepus starcki | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2128864 — 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: Lepus Context triple: [black-tailed jackrabbit, genus, Lepus]
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A.
Lepus
Lepus is a small southern constellation located just below Orion, traditionally representing a hare.
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B.
Rabbit
Rabbit is a famous stainless-steel sculpture by Jeff Koons, celebrated as an iconic work of contemporary pop and conceptual art.
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C.
Pongo
Pongo is the genus of great apes commonly known as orangutans, native to the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra.
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D.
Agnus
Agnus is the custom chip in early Commodore Amiga computers responsible for managing graphics, memory access, and DMA operations within the system’s chipset.
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E.
Porcupine
Porcupine is a historic mining community and neighborhood within the city of Timmins in northeastern Ontario, Canada.
- 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: Lepus Target entity description: Lepus is a genus of fast-running mammals commonly known as hares and jackrabbits, found across much of the world in open and semi-open habitats.
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A.
Lepus
Lepus is a small southern constellation located just below Orion, traditionally representing a hare.
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B.
Rabbit
Rabbit is a famous stainless-steel sculpture by Jeff Koons, celebrated as an iconic work of contemporary pop and conceptual art.
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C.
Pongo
Pongo is the genus of great apes commonly known as orangutans, native to the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra.
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D.
Agnus
Agnus is the custom chip in early Commodore Amiga computers responsible for managing graphics, memory access, and DMA operations within the system’s chipset.
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E.
Porcupine
Porcupine is a historic mining community and neighborhood within the city of Timmins in northeastern Ontario, Canada.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
genus
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taxon ⓘ |
| class | Mammalia ⓘ |
| commonName |
hares
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jackrabbits ⓘ |
| containsTaxon |
Lepus americanus
ⓘ
Lepus arcticus ⓘ Lepus brachyurus ⓘ Lepus californicus ⓘ Lepus capensis ⓘ
linked to:
Lepus
Lepus castroviejoi ⓘ Lepus comus ⓘ Lepus corsicanus ⓘ Lepus europaeus ⓘ Lepus fagani ⓘ
linked to:
Lepus
Lepus flavigularis ⓘ
linked to:
Lepus
Lepus granatensis ⓘ Lepus habessinicus ⓘ
linked to:
Lepus
Lepus hainanus ⓘ Lepus insularis ⓘ Lepus microtis ⓘ Lepus nigricollis ⓘ
linked to:
Lepus
Lepus oiostolus ⓘ Lepus peguensis ⓘ Lepus saxatilis ⓘ
linked to:
Lepus
Lepus sinensis ⓘ Lepus starcki ⓘ
linked to:
Lepus
Lepus tibetanus ⓘ Lepus timidus ⓘ Lepus tolai ⓘ Lepus townsendii ⓘ Lepus victoriae ⓘ Lepus yarkandensis ⓘ |
| describedAs | fast-running mammals ⓘ |
| distribution | much of the world ⓘ |
| family | Leporidae ⓘ |
| habitat |
open habitats
ⓘ
semi-open habitats ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| movementType | cursorial ⓘ |
| notableSpecies |
European hare
ⓘ
black-tailed jackrabbit ⓘ snowshoe hare ⓘ white-tailed jackrabbit ⓘ |
| order | Lagomorpha ⓘ |
| parentTaxon | Leporidae ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| typicalDiet | herbivorous ⓘ |
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: Lepus Description of subject: Lepus is a genus of fast-running mammals commonly known as hares and jackrabbits, found across much of the world in open and semi-open habitats.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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