Canis ferox
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Canis ferox is an extinct species of canid, likely a prehistoric wild dog or wolf-like animal known only from paleontological and taxonomic records.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Canis ferox canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8365128 — 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: Canis ferox Context triple: [Canis, includesSpecies, Canis ferox]
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A.
Canis lycaon
Canis lycaon, commonly known as the eastern wolf or Algonquin wolf, is a medium-sized North American canid closely related to both gray wolves and coyotes and primarily found in parts of eastern Canada.
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B.
Canis
Canis is a genus of medium to large carnivorous mammals in the dog family that includes wolves, domestic dogs, coyotes, and closely related species.
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C.
Canis lupus
Canis lupus is the gray wolf, a large social canid native to the Northern Hemisphere and the wild ancestor of the domestic dog.
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D.
Pagophilus
Pagophilus is a genus of earless seals best known for the harp seal, a medium-sized Arctic marine mammal adapted to life on sea ice.
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E.
Nara lion-dog
The Nara lion-dog is a traditional Japanese guardian statue, typically depicted as a stylized lion-like creature placed at temple and shrine entrances to ward off evil.
- 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: Canis ferox Target entity description: Canis ferox is an extinct species of canid, likely a prehistoric wild dog or wolf-like animal known only from paleontological and taxonomic records.
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A.
Canis lycaon
Canis lycaon, commonly known as the eastern wolf or Algonquin wolf, is a medium-sized North American canid closely related to both gray wolves and coyotes and primarily found in parts of eastern Canada.
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B.
Canis
Canis is a genus of medium to large carnivorous mammals in the dog family that includes wolves, domestic dogs, coyotes, and closely related species.
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C.
Canis lupus
Canis lupus is the gray wolf, a large social canid native to the Northern Hemisphere and the wild ancestor of the domestic dog.
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D.
Pagophilus
Pagophilus is a genus of earless seals best known for the harp seal, a medium-sized Arctic marine mammal adapted to life on sea ice.
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E.
Nara lion-dog
The Nara lion-dog is a traditional Japanese guardian statue, typically depicted as a stylized lion-like creature placed at temple and shrine entrances to ward off evil.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
canid
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extinct species ⓘ prehistoric animal ⓘ |
| belongsTo | canids ⓘ |
| class | Mammalia ⓘ |
| describedAs |
prehistoric wild dog
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wolf-like animal ⓘ |
| family | Canidae ⓘ |
| genus | Canis ⓘ |
| hasBinomialName | Canis ferox ⓘ |
| isA | member of genus Canis ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| knownFrom |
paleontological records
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taxonomic records ⓘ |
| order | Carnivora ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| status | extinct ⓘ |
| suborder | Caniformia ⓘ |
| superfamily | Canoidea ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
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: Canis ferox Description of subject: Canis ferox is an extinct species of canid, likely a prehistoric wild dog or wolf-like animal known only from paleontological and taxonomic records.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.