Phascolarctidae
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Phascolarctidae is a family of marsupials best known for including the koala, an arboreal herbivore native to Australia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Phascolarctidae canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6645339 — 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: Phascolarctidae Context triple: [Vombatiformes, includesTaxon, Phascolarctidae]
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A.
Vombatidae
Vombatidae is the biological family of burrowing, herbivorous marsupials commonly known as wombats, native to Australia.
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B.
Vombatiformes
Vombatiformes is a suborder of marsupials that includes wombats and the koala, characterized by stout bodies and herbivorous diets.
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C.
Marsupiale
Marsupiale is the nickname of the Savoia-Marchetti SM.82, an Italian World War II-era three-engined transport and bomber aircraft.
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D.
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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E.
Phascolarctos cinereus
Phascolarctos cinereus is the arboreal Australian marsupial commonly known as the koala, noted for its eucalyptus-based diet and stout, tailless body.
- 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: Phascolarctidae Target entity description: Phascolarctidae is a family of marsupials best known for including the koala, an arboreal herbivore native to Australia.
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A.
Vombatidae
Vombatidae is the biological family of burrowing, herbivorous marsupials commonly known as wombats, native to Australia.
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B.
Vombatiformes
Vombatiformes is a suborder of marsupials that includes wombats and the koala, characterized by stout bodies and herbivorous diets.
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C.
Marsupiale
Marsupiale is the nickname of the Savoia-Marchetti SM.82, an Italian World War II-era three-engined transport and bomber aircraft.
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D.
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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E.
Phascolarctos cinereus
Phascolarctos cinereus is the arboreal Australian marsupial commonly known as the koala, noted for its eucalyptus-based diet and stout, tailless body.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | mammal family ⓘ |
| authority | Owen ⓘ |
| class | Mammalia ⓘ |
| commonName | koala family ⓘ |
| containsTaxon |
Phascolarctos
ⓘ
linked to:
Phascolarctos cinereus
Phascolarctos cinereus ⓘ |
| diet | herbivorous ⓘ |
| distinguishingFeature |
forward-facing pouch in females
ⓘ
low metabolic rate ⓘ robust body adapted to climbing ⓘ specialized dentition for leaf-eating ⓘ strong limbs with sharp claws ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole | folivorous arboreal herbivores ⓘ |
| geologicalTimeRange | Cenozoic ⓘ |
| hasLivingRepresentative | Phascolarctos cinereus ⓘ |
| infraclass | Marsupialia ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| locomotion | arboreal ⓘ |
| namedMember | koala ⓘ |
| nativeRange |
Australia
ⓘ
eastern Australia ⓘ southeastern Australia ⓘ |
| order | Diprotodontia ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproduction | marsupial ⓘ |
| suborder | Vombatiformes ⓘ |
| taxonRank | family ⓘ |
| taxonTypeSpecies | Phascolarctos cinereus ⓘ |
| typicalDiet | eucalyptus leaves ⓘ |
| typicalHabitat |
eucalyptus forests
ⓘ
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: Phascolarctidae Description of subject: Phascolarctidae is a family of marsupials best known for including the koala, an arboreal herbivore native to Australia.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.