Proboscidea
E361154
Proboscidea is a mammalian order that includes elephants and their extinct relatives, characterized by trunks and large tusks.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Proboscidea canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3485510 — 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: Proboscidea Context triple: [Bornean pygmy elephant, order, Proboscidea]
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A.
Perissodactyla
Perissodactyla is an order of odd-toed hoofed mammals that includes horses, rhinoceroses, and tapirs, characterized by weight-bearing on one or three toes and a hindgut-fermenting digestive system.
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B.
Hippopotamoidea
Hippopotamoidea is a mammalian superfamily that includes hippos and their closest extinct relatives within the order Artiodactyla.
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C.
Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocerotidae is the biological family of large, thick-skinned, horned mammals commonly known as rhinoceroses, native to Africa and Asia.
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D.
Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamidae is a family of large, mostly herbivorous, semi-aquatic mammals that includes the common hippopotamus and its relatives.
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E.
Conirostrum
Conirostrum is a genus of small Neotropical songbirds known as cone-billed tanagers, characterized by their slender, pointed bills and association with the tanager family.
- 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: Proboscidea Target entity description: Proboscidea is a mammalian order that includes elephants and their extinct relatives, characterized by trunks and large tusks.
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A.
Perissodactyla
Perissodactyla is an order of odd-toed hoofed mammals that includes horses, rhinoceroses, and tapirs, characterized by weight-bearing on one or three toes and a hindgut-fermenting digestive system.
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B.
Hippopotamoidea
Hippopotamoidea is a mammalian superfamily that includes hippos and their closest extinct relatives within the order Artiodactyla.
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C.
Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocerotidae is the biological family of large, thick-skinned, horned mammals commonly known as rhinoceroses, native to Africa and Asia.
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D.
Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamidae is a family of large, mostly herbivorous, semi-aquatic mammals that includes the common hippopotamus and its relatives.
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E.
Conirostrum
Conirostrum is a genus of small Neotropical songbirds known as cone-billed tanagers, characterized by their slender, pointed bills and association with the tanager family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: Proboscidea Description of subject: Proboscidea is a mammalian order that includes elephants and their extinct relatives, characterized by trunks and large tusks.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.