Eumetopias
E355496
Eumetopias is a genus of large eared seals best known for including the Steller sea lion, the largest of the otariids.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eumetopias jubatus | 3 |
| Eumetopias canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3411826 — 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: Eumetopias Context triple: [Steller sea lion, genus, Eumetopias]
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A.
Labroidei
Labroidei is a suborder of mostly marine perciform fishes that includes wrasses, parrotfishes, and cichlids, known for their diverse morphologies and complex behaviors.
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B.
Melanogrammus
Melanogrammus is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes in the cod family, best known for including the commercially important haddock.
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C.
Metischnogaster
Metischnogaster is a genus of small, primitively eusocial hover wasps within the subfamily Stenogastrinae, known for their distinctive nesting behavior in tropical Asia.
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D.
Entosphenus
Entosphenus is a genus of jawless, eel-like lampreys that includes several parasitic and anadromous species found primarily in North American freshwater and coastal marine environments.
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E.
Muraenesocidae
Muraenesocidae is a family of elongated, predatory marine eels commonly known as pike congers, found in tropical and subtropical seas worldwide.
- 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: Eumetopias Target entity description: Eumetopias is a genus of large eared seals best known for including the Steller sea lion, the largest of the otariids.
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A.
Labroidei
Labroidei is a suborder of mostly marine perciform fishes that includes wrasses, parrotfishes, and cichlids, known for their diverse morphologies and complex behaviors.
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B.
Melanogrammus
Melanogrammus is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes in the cod family, best known for including the commercially important haddock.
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C.
Metischnogaster
Metischnogaster is a genus of small, primitively eusocial hover wasps within the subfamily Stenogastrinae, known for their distinctive nesting behavior in tropical Asia.
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D.
Entosphenus
Entosphenus is a genus of jawless, eel-like lampreys that includes several parasitic and anadromous species found primarily in North American freshwater and coastal marine environments.
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E.
Muraenesocidae
Muraenesocidae is a family of elongated, predatory marine eels commonly known as pike congers, found in tropical and subtropical seas worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
genus
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| belongsToGroup |
marine mammals
ⓘ
pinnipeds ⓘ |
| class | Mammalia ⓘ |
| commonName | eared seals genus ⓘ |
| containsTaxon |
Eumetopias jubatus
ⓘ
linked to:
Eumetopias
|
| diet |
carnivorous
ⓘ
cephalopods ⓘ fish ⓘ |
| distribution |
North Pacific Ocean
ⓘ
linked to:
Pacific Ocean
|
| family | Otariidae ⓘ |
| habitat |
coastal marine waters
ⓘ
rocky shores ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
external ear flaps
ⓘ
foreflippers used for swimming ⓘ large body size ⓘ |
| hasLocomotion |
swimming with foreflippers
ⓘ
walking on all fours on land ⓘ |
| hasSensoryFeature | well-developed hearing ⓘ |
| includes | Steller sea lion ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| movement | amphibious ⓘ |
| notableFor | including the Steller sea lion ⓘ |
| order | Carnivora ⓘ |
| parentTaxon | Otariidae ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproduction | colonial breeder ⓘ |
| subfamily |
Otariinae
ⓘ
linked to:
Otariidae
|
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| typeSpecies |
Eumetopias jubatus
ⓘ
linked to:
Eumetopias
|
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: Eumetopias Description of subject: Eumetopias is a genus of large eared seals best known for including the Steller sea lion, the largest of the otariids.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Eumetopias
linked to: Eumetopias
linked to: Eumetopias