Ailurus
E663876
Ailurus is a mammal genus best known for including the red panda, a small, arboreal, bamboo-eating species native to the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ailurus canonical | 5 |
| Ailurus fulgens | 5 |
| Ailurus fulgens fulgens | 2 |
| Ailurus fulgens styani | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7414399 — 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: Ailurus Context triple: [Ailuridae, typeGenus, Ailurus]
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A.
Ailurops
Ailurops is a genus of arboreal marsupials known as bear cuscuses, native to the forests of Sulawesi and nearby Indonesian islands.
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B.
Tamiops
Tamiops is a genus of small striped tree squirrels native to parts of Asia, commonly known as Asiatic striped squirrels.
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C.
Catopuma
Catopuma is a small wild cat genus from Southeast Asia that includes the bay cat and the Asian golden cat.
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D.
Pachymelus
Pachymelus is a genus of solitary, flower-visiting bees within the tribe Anthophorini, known for their role as pollinators.
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E.
Malabar civet
The Malabar civet is a critically endangered, nocturnal small carnivore endemic to India and known for its elusive behavior and highly restricted range in the Western Ghats region.
- 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: Ailurus Target entity description: Ailurus is a mammal genus best known for including the red panda, a small, arboreal, bamboo-eating species native to the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China.
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A.
Ailurops
Ailurops is a genus of arboreal marsupials known as bear cuscuses, native to the forests of Sulawesi and nearby Indonesian islands.
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B.
Tamiops
Tamiops is a genus of small striped tree squirrels native to parts of Asia, commonly known as Asiatic striped squirrels.
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C.
Catopuma
Catopuma is a small wild cat genus from Southeast Asia that includes the bay cat and the Asian golden cat.
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D.
Pachymelus
Pachymelus is a genus of solitary, flower-visiting bees within the tribe Anthophorini, known for their role as pollinators.
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E.
Malabar civet
The Malabar civet is a critically endangered, nocturnal small carnivore endemic to India and known for its elusive behavior and highly restricted range in the Western Ghats region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
genus
ⓘ
mammal genus ⓘ |
| activityPattern | crepuscular ⓘ |
| belongsToClade | Arctoidea ⓘ |
| class | Mammalia ⓘ |
| commonName | red panda genus ⓘ |
| containsTaxon |
Ailurus fulgens
ⓘ
linked to:
Ailurus
|
| describedAs | small mammals ⓘ |
| diet |
bamboo
ⓘ
omnivorous ⓘ |
| ecologicalNiche | forest canopy dweller ⓘ |
| family | Ailuridae ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution | Asia ⓘ |
| habitat |
montane forests
ⓘ
temperate forests ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
arboreal mammals
ⓘ
bamboo-eating mammals ⓘ |
| hasConservationRelevance | includes vulnerable species ⓘ |
| hasMemberSpecies |
Ailurus fulgens fulgens
ⓘ
linked to:
Ailurus
Ailurus fulgens styani ⓘ
linked to:
Ailurus
|
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| locomotion | arboreal climbing ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Greek word "ailouros" (meaning cat) ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
eastern Himalayas
ⓘ
linked to:
Eastern Himalayas
southwestern China ⓘ
linked to:
Southwest China
|
| order | Carnivora ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| recognizedBy | zoological taxonomy ⓘ |
| reproduction | viviparous ⓘ |
| suborder | Caniformia ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| typeSpecies |
Ailurus fulgens
ⓘ
linked to:
Ailurus
|
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: Ailurus Description of subject: Ailurus is a mammal genus best known for including the red panda, a small, arboreal, bamboo-eating species native to the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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