tribe Marmotini
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Tribe Marmotini is a group of ground-dwelling squirrels within the squirrel family (Sciuridae), including marmots, ground squirrels, and closely related genera.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| tribe Marmotini canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8467489 — 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: tribe Marmotini Context triple: [Callospermophilus, belongsTo, tribe Marmotini]
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A.
Zeulenroda-Triebes
Zeulenroda-Triebes is a town in the state of Thuringia in central Germany, known for its textile industry and scenic location near the Zeulenroda reservoir.
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B.
Howeitat tribe
The Howeitat tribe is a prominent Bedouin Arab tribe of the Levant and northwestern Arabia, historically influential in regional politics and known for its role in the Arab Revolt.
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C.
Kinana tribe
The Kinana tribe is an ancient Arab tribal group from which the Quraysh and its notable clan Banu Hashim trace their lineage.
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D.
Merkit tribe
The Merkit tribe was a Mongolic nomadic group in medieval Central Asia, known for its conflicts with Genghis Khan’s family and its role in the early history of the Mongol Empire.
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E.
Samma tribe
The Samma tribe is a historic Sindhi Rajput community of South Asia, best known for founding and ruling the medieval Samma dynasty centered in Sindh.
- 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: tribe Marmotini Target entity description: Tribe Marmotini is a group of ground-dwelling squirrels within the squirrel family (Sciuridae), including marmots, ground squirrels, and closely related genera.
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A.
Zeulenroda-Triebes
Zeulenroda-Triebes is a town in the state of Thuringia in central Germany, known for its textile industry and scenic location near the Zeulenroda reservoir.
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B.
Howeitat tribe
The Howeitat tribe is a prominent Bedouin Arab tribe of the Levant and northwestern Arabia, historically influential in regional politics and known for its role in the Arab Revolt.
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C.
Kinana tribe
The Kinana tribe is an ancient Arab tribal group from which the Quraysh and its notable clan Banu Hashim trace their lineage.
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D.
Merkit tribe
The Merkit tribe was a Mongolic nomadic group in medieval Central Asia, known for its conflicts with Genghis Khan’s family and its role in the early history of the Mongol Empire.
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E.
Samma tribe
The Samma tribe is a historic Sindhi Rajput community of South Asia, best known for founding and ruling the medieval Samma dynasty centered in Sindh.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mammalian taxon
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taxonomic tribe ⓘ |
| behavior |
burrowing
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often colonial ⓘ |
| class | Mammalia ⓘ |
| commonName | tribe of ground squirrels ⓘ |
| containsSpecies |
Alpine marmot (Marmota marmota)
ⓘ
linked to:
Marmota
California ground squirrel (Otospermophilus beecheyi) ⓘ black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) ⓘ
linked to:
Cynomys
thirteen-lined ground squirrel (Ictidomys tridecemlineatus) ⓘ yellow-bellied marmot (Marmota flaviventris) ⓘ
linked to:
yellow-bellied marmot
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| diet |
granivorous
ⓘ
primarily herbivorous ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole |
prey for carnivores
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seed dispersers ⓘ |
| family | Sciuridae ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution |
Eurasia
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North America ⓘ |
| habitat | terrestrial ⓘ |
| includes |
genus Ammospermophilus
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genus Callospermophilus ⓘ genus Cynomys ⓘ genus Eutamias sibiricus (sometimes placed) ⓘ genus Ictidomys ⓘ genus Marmota ⓘ genus Notocitellus ⓘ genus Otospermophilus ⓘ genus Poliocitellus ⓘ genus Spermophilus ⓘ genus Urocitellus ⓘ genus Xerospermophilus ⓘ ground squirrels ⓘ marmots ⓘ prairie dogs ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| lifestyle | ground-dwelling ⓘ |
| locomotion | quadrupedal ⓘ |
| notableAdaptation | hibernation in many species ⓘ |
| order | Rodentia ⓘ |
| parentTaxon | Sciurinae ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproduction | viviparous ⓘ |
| taxonRank | tribe ⓘ |
| thermoregulation | endothermic ⓘ |
| typicalHabitat |
alpine meadows
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grasslands ⓘ open woodlands ⓘ prairies ⓘ steppe ⓘ |
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: tribe Marmotini Description of subject: Tribe Marmotini is a group of ground-dwelling squirrels within the squirrel family (Sciuridae), including marmots, ground squirrels, and closely related genera.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.