Macropodidae
E28156
Macropodidae is a family of marsupials that includes kangaroos, wallabies, and their close relatives, characterized by powerful hind legs adapted for hopping.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Macropodidae canonical | 47 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T215917 — 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: Macropodidae Context triple: [red kangaroo, family, Macropodidae]
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A.
Diprotodontia
Diprotodontia is a large order of marsupial mammals, including kangaroos, wallabies, koalas, and wombats, primarily native to Australia and nearby regions.
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B.
Artiodactyla
Artiodactyla is a large order of even-toed hoofed mammals that includes animals such as deer, cattle, pigs, and camels.
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C.
red kangaroo
The red kangaroo is the largest marsupial in the world, a powerful, long-legged herbivore native to Australia’s arid and semi-arid regions.
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D.
Megapodiidae
Megapodiidae is a family of ground-dwelling birds known as megapodes or mound-builders, notable for incubating their eggs in large mounds of decaying vegetation or warm sand instead of brooding them with body heat.
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E.
Sciuridae
Sciuridae is a large family of rodents that includes squirrels, chipmunks, marmots, and prairie dogs, characterized by their strong hind legs, bushy tails, and gnawing incisors.
- 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: Macropodidae Target entity description: Macropodidae is a family of marsupials that includes kangaroos, wallabies, and their close relatives, characterized by powerful hind legs adapted for hopping.
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A.
Diprotodontia
Diprotodontia is a large order of marsupial mammals, including kangaroos, wallabies, koalas, and wombats, primarily native to Australia and nearby regions.
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B.
Artiodactyla
Artiodactyla is a large order of even-toed hoofed mammals that includes animals such as deer, cattle, pigs, and camels.
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C.
red kangaroo
The red kangaroo is the largest marsupial in the world, a powerful, long-legged herbivore native to Australia’s arid and semi-arid regions.
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D.
Megapodiidae
Megapodiidae is a family of ground-dwelling birds known as megapodes or mound-builders, notable for incubating their eggs in large mounds of decaying vegetation or warm sand instead of brooding them with body heat.
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E.
Sciuridae
Sciuridae is a large family of rodents that includes squirrels, chipmunks, marmots, and prairie dogs, characterized by their strong hind legs, bushy tails, and gnawing incisors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mammalian family
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taxonomic family ⓘ |
| characteristicTrait |
elongated fourth toe on hind foot
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herbivorous dentition ⓘ large hind feet ⓘ long muscular tail used for balance ⓘ powerful hind legs adapted for hopping ⓘ relatively small forelimbs ⓘ |
| class | Mammalia ⓘ |
| commonName | macropods ⓘ |
| containsGenus |
Dendrolagus
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Lagorchestes ⓘ Macropus ⓘ Notamacropus ⓘ Onychogalea ⓘ Osphranter ⓘ Setonix ⓘ Thylogale ⓘ Wallabia ⓘ |
| diet | herbivorous ⓘ |
| distinguishingFeature |
diprotodont lower jaw with two large forward-projecting incisors
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syndactylous second and third toes on hind feet ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole | primary grazers in Australian ecosystems ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution |
Australia
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New Guinea ⓘ Tasmania ⓘ nearby islands ⓘ |
| includesCommonGroup |
kangaroos
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pademelons ⓘ quokkas ⓘ tree-kangaroos ⓘ wallabies ⓘ |
| infraclass | Marsupialia ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| locomotion |
bipedal hopping
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saltatory locomotion ⓘ |
| order | Diprotodontia ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| recognizedBy | modern mammalogy and taxonomy ⓘ |
| reproduction |
altricial young developing in pouch
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marsupial reproduction with pouch ⓘ |
| suborder | Macropodiformes ⓘ |
| typicalFood |
grasses
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leaves ⓘ shrubs ⓘ |
| typicalHabitat |
forests
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grasslands ⓘ open woodlands ⓘ |
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: Macropodidae Description of subject: Macropodidae is a family of marsupials that includes kangaroos, wallabies, and their close relatives, characterized by powerful hind legs adapted for hopping.
Referenced by (47)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.