Felis
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Felis is a genus of small to medium-sized cats that includes the domestic cat and several closely related wild species.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Felis catus | 5 |
| Felis canonical | 2 |
| Felis bieti | 1 |
| Felis lybica | 1 |
| Felis margarita | 1 |
| Felis nigripes | 1 |
| Felis silvestris | 1 |
| Profelis | 1 |
| Van cat | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3084553 — 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: Felis Context triple: [Jefferson the cat, genus, Felis]
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A.
Kitty
Kitty is a common diminutive or nickname for the given name Catherine.
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B.
Kitty
"Kitty" is a 1945 historical comedy-drama film set in 18th-century London, best known for starring Paulette Goddard as a pickpocket who rises in society.
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C.
Catz
Catz is the surname of Safra Catz, a prominent business executive best known as the CEO of Oracle Corporation.
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D.
Catz
Catz is the informal nickname for St Catharine’s College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge.
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E.
Calico
Calico is a research and development company founded by Google that focuses on understanding aging and developing technologies to extend human lifespan.
- 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: Felis Target entity description: Felis is a genus of small to medium-sized cats that includes the domestic cat and several closely related wild species.
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A.
Kitty
Kitty is a common diminutive or nickname for the given name Catherine.
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B.
Kitty
"Kitty" is a 1945 historical comedy-drama film set in 18th-century London, best known for starring Paulette Goddard as a pickpocket who rises in society.
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C.
Catz
Catz is the surname of Safra Catz, a prominent business executive best known as the CEO of Oracle Corporation.
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D.
Catz
Catz is the informal nickname for St Catharine’s College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge.
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E.
Calico
Calico is a research and development company founded by Google that focuses on understanding aging and developing technologies to extend human lifespan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
genus
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| belongsToClade | Felina ⓘ |
| class | Mammalia ⓘ |
| commonName |
small cats
ⓘ
true cats ⓘ |
| describedBy | Carl Linnaeus ⓘ |
| describedInWork | Systema Naturae ⓘ |
| describedInYear | 1758 ⓘ |
| diet | carnivorous ⓘ |
| distribution |
Africa
ⓘ
Asia ⓘ Europe ⓘ Middle East ⓘ |
| family | Felidae ⓘ |
| habitat |
desert
ⓘ
forest ⓘ grassland ⓘ savanna ⓘ shrubland ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
nocturnal or crepuscular activity
ⓘ
retractable claws ⓘ solitary behavior ⓘ |
| hasDomesticatedMember | Felis catus ⓘ |
| includes |
Chinese mountain cat
ⓘ
black-footed cat ⓘ domestic cat ⓘ jungle cat ⓘ sand cat ⓘ wildcat ⓘ |
| includesTaxon |
Felis bieti
ⓘ
linked to:
Felis
Felis catus ⓘ
linked to:
Felis
Felis chaus ⓘ Felis lybica ⓘ
linked to:
Felis
Felis margarita ⓘ
linked to:
Felis
Felis nigripes ⓘ
linked to:
Felis
Felis silvestris ⓘ Felis silvestris lybica ⓘ Felis silvestris silvestris ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| order | Carnivora ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproductiveMode | viviparous ⓘ |
| subfamily | Felinae ⓘ |
| suborder | Feliformia ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| typeSpecies |
Felis catus
ⓘ
linked to:
Felis
|
| typicalBodySize | small to medium ⓘ |
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: Felis Description of subject: Felis is a genus of small to medium-sized cats that includes the domestic cat and several closely related wild species.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Felis
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linked to: Felis