Otarioidea
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Otarioidea is a superfamily of marine mammals that includes the eared seals, such as sea lions and fur seals.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Otarioidea canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7388923 — 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: Otarioidea Context triple: [Otariidae, parentTaxon, Otarioidea]
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A.
Anoplopomatidae
Anoplopomatidae is a small family of deep-sea marine fishes, including sablefish and skilfish, known for their commercial importance and occurrence in cold North Pacific waters.
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B.
Phocidae
Phocidae is the family of earless or true seals, a group of fully aquatic, fin-footed marine mammals adapted for life in cold and temperate oceans worldwide.
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C.
Distoechurus
Distoechurus is a genus of small marsupials known as feather-tailed possums, native to New Guinea and belonging to the family Acrobatidae.
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D.
Diodontidae
Diodontidae is a family of marine fish commonly known as porcupinefishes, characterized by their ability to inflate their bodies and their covering of sharp spines for defense.
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E.
Pontoporiidae
Pontoporiidae is a family of river dolphins best known for the La Plata dolphin (or franciscana), a small, coastal and estuarine cetacean found in South American waters.
- 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: Otarioidea Target entity description: Otarioidea is a superfamily of marine mammals that includes the eared seals, such as sea lions and fur seals.
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A.
Anoplopomatidae
Anoplopomatidae is a small family of deep-sea marine fishes, including sablefish and skilfish, known for their commercial importance and occurrence in cold North Pacific waters.
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B.
Phocidae
Phocidae is the family of earless or true seals, a group of fully aquatic, fin-footed marine mammals adapted for life in cold and temperate oceans worldwide.
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C.
Distoechurus
Distoechurus is a genus of small marsupials known as feather-tailed possums, native to New Guinea and belonging to the family Acrobatidae.
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D.
Diodontidae
Diodontidae is a family of marine fish commonly known as porcupinefishes, characterized by their ability to inflate their bodies and their covering of sharp spines for defense.
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E.
Pontoporiidae
Pontoporiidae is a family of river dolphins best known for the La Plata dolphin (or franciscana), a small, coastal and estuarine cetacean found in South American waters.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
superfamily
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| belongsToClade |
Placentalia
ⓘ
linked to:
Eutheria
Theria ⓘ |
| breathing | air-breathing ⓘ |
| class | Mammalia ⓘ |
| commonName | eared seals superfamily ⓘ |
| diet | carnivorous ⓘ |
| distinguishedFrom | Phocidae ⓘ |
| distinguishingFeatureFromPhocidae | can walk on land using all four limbs ⓘ |
| distribution |
Atlantic Ocean
ⓘ
Pacific Ocean ⓘ Southern Ocean ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole | marine predator ⓘ |
| habitat |
coastal waters
ⓘ
marine environments ⓘ |
| hasBodyCovering |
blubber layer
ⓘ
fur ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
ability to rotate hind flippers under body
ⓘ
adapted for swimming ⓘ external ear flaps ⓘ marine mammal ⓘ |
| hasJawType | synapsid ⓘ |
| hasMammaryGlands | true ⓘ |
| hasSensoryAdaptation | well-developed hearing underwater ⓘ |
| hasSkullFeature | external pinnae present ⓘ |
| hasVertebralColumn | true ⓘ |
| includes |
Odobenidae
ⓘ
Otariidae ⓘ |
| includesGroup |
fur seals
ⓘ
sea lions ⓘ |
| infraorder | Pinnipedia ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| limbType | flippers ⓘ |
| locomotion | swimming with foreflippers ⓘ |
| order | Carnivora ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproduction | viviparous ⓘ |
| reproductiveStrategy | parental care of young ⓘ |
| suborder | Caniformia ⓘ |
| taxonRank | superfamily ⓘ |
| thermoregulation | endothermic ⓘ |
| typicalPrey |
cephalopods
ⓘ
fish ⓘ |
| usesHabitat |
land for breeding
ⓘ
land for resting ⓘ |
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: Otarioidea Description of subject: Otarioidea is a superfamily of marine mammals that includes the eared seals, such as sea lions and fur seals.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.