Macaca
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Macaca is a diverse genus of Old World monkeys that includes numerous macaque species widely distributed across Asia and parts of North Africa.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Macaca canonical | 8 |
| Macaca maura | 1 |
| Macaca munzala | 1 |
| Macaca nemestrina | 1 |
| Macaca silenus | 1 |
| tondano monkey | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7661524 — 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: Macaca Context triple: [Lion-tailed macaque, genus, Macaca]
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A.
Bonobo
Bonobo is a British musician, producer, and DJ known for his atmospheric downtempo and electronic music that blends live instrumentation with intricate sampling.
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B.
Diana monkey
The Diana monkey is a colorful and agile Old World monkey species native to the forests of West Africa, known for its distinctive white throat and brow markings.
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C.
Capuchin
Capuchin refers to a branch of the Franciscan religious order within the Catholic Church, known for its friars’ simple lifestyle, brown habits with large hoods, and emphasis on poverty and preaching.
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D.
Bale monkey
The Bale monkey is a primate species endemic to Ethiopia’s Bale Mountains, known for its specialized bamboo forest habitat and limited geographic range.
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E.
Marmoset
"Marmoset" is a song by the American noise rock band Rapeman, known for its abrasive sound and association with the late-1980s underground rock scene.
- 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: Macaca Target entity description: Macaca is a diverse genus of Old World monkeys that includes numerous macaque species widely distributed across Asia and parts of North Africa.
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A.
Bonobo
Bonobo is a British musician, producer, and DJ known for his atmospheric downtempo and electronic music that blends live instrumentation with intricate sampling.
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B.
Diana monkey
The Diana monkey is a colorful and agile Old World monkey species native to the forests of West Africa, known for its distinctive white throat and brow markings.
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C.
Capuchin
Capuchin refers to a branch of the Franciscan religious order within the Catholic Church, known for its friars’ simple lifestyle, brown habits with large hoods, and emphasis on poverty and preaching.
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D.
Bale monkey
The Bale monkey is a primate species endemic to Ethiopia’s Bale Mountains, known for its specialized bamboo forest habitat and limited geographic range.
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E.
Marmoset
"Marmoset" is a song by the American noise rock band Rapeman, known for its abrasive sound and association with the late-1980s underground rock scene.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (63)
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: Macaca Description of subject: Macaca is a diverse genus of Old World monkeys that includes numerous macaque species widely distributed across Asia and parts of North Africa.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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