Muroidea
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Muroidea is a large and diverse superfamily of rodents that includes mice, rats, voles, hamsters, and many related species found worldwide.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Muroidea canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8602297 — 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: Muroidea Context triple: [Myomorpha, hasSubclade, Muroidea]
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A.
Cricetidae
Cricetidae is a large family of rodents that includes hamsters, voles, lemmings, and many New World rats and mice.
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B.
Muridae
Muridae is the largest family of rodents, encompassing mice, rats, and many related small mammals found worldwide.
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C.
Myomorpha
Myomorpha is a major suborder of rodents that includes mice, rats, gerbils, hamsters, and related small, typically omnivorous mammals characterized by specialized jaw and tooth structures.
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D.
Myrmecophagidae
Myrmecophagidae is the biological family of mammals commonly known as true anteaters, characterized by their elongated snouts and specialized tongues for feeding on ants and termites.
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E.
Heteromyidae
Heteromyidae is a family of small North and Central American rodents that includes kangaroo rats, kangaroo mice, and pocket mice, known for their external fur-lined cheek pouches and adaptations to arid environments.
- 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: Muroidea Target entity description: Muroidea is a large and diverse superfamily of rodents that includes mice, rats, voles, hamsters, and many related species found worldwide.
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A.
Cricetidae
Cricetidae is a large family of rodents that includes hamsters, voles, lemmings, and many New World rats and mice.
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B.
Muridae
Muridae is the largest family of rodents, encompassing mice, rats, and many related small mammals found worldwide.
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C.
Myomorpha
Myomorpha is a major suborder of rodents that includes mice, rats, gerbils, hamsters, and related small, typically omnivorous mammals characterized by specialized jaw and tooth structures.
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D.
Myrmecophagidae
Myrmecophagidae is the biological family of mammals commonly known as true anteaters, characterized by their elongated snouts and specialized tongues for feeding on ants and termites.
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E.
Heteromyidae
Heteromyidae is a family of small North and Central American rodents that includes kangaroo rats, kangaroo mice, and pocket mice, known for their external fur-lined cheek pouches and adaptations to arid environments.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
clade
ⓘ
superfamily of mammals ⓘ taxon ⓘ |
| clade | Glires ⓘ |
| class | Mammalia ⓘ |
| contains |
a large number of rodent genera
ⓘ
a large number of rodent species ⓘ |
| distribution | worldwide ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole |
herbivore
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omnivore ⓘ prey for many predators ⓘ seed predator ⓘ |
| foundIn |
Africa
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Australia ⓘ Eurasia ⓘ North America ⓘ South America ⓘ many oceanic islands ⓘ |
| habitat |
deserts
ⓘ
forests ⓘ grasslands ⓘ tundra ⓘ urban areas ⓘ |
| includes |
Calomyscidae
ⓘ
Cricetidae ⓘ Muridae ⓘ Nesomyidae ⓘ Platacanthomyidae ⓘ Spalacidae ⓘ |
| includesCommonNameGroup |
gerbils
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hamsters ⓘ lemmings ⓘ mice ⓘ mole-rats ⓘ rats ⓘ spiny mice ⓘ voles ⓘ |
| infraclass | Eutheria ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
includes important disease reservoirs
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includes major agricultural pests ⓘ includes many important model organisms in biomedical research ⓘ |
| order | Rodentia ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproduction | generally high reproductive rate ⓘ |
| subclass | Theria ⓘ |
| superorder | Euarchontoglires ⓘ |
| taxonRank | superfamily ⓘ |
| typicalDiet |
invertebrates
ⓘ
plants ⓘ seeds ⓘ |
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: Muroidea Description of subject: Muroidea is a large and diverse superfamily of rodents that includes mice, rats, voles, hamsters, and many related species found worldwide.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.