Caspian seal
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The Caspian seal is a small, endangered earless seal species found exclusively in the landlocked Caspian Sea region.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Caspian seal canonical | 3 |
| Monachus | 1 |
| Phoca caspica | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T708840 — 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: Caspian seal Context triple: [Caspian Sea, contains, Caspian seal]
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A.
Weddell seal
The Weddell seal is a large, deep-diving Antarctic seal species known for living year-round on sea ice and for its remarkable ability to vocalize underwater.
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B.
New Zealand fur seal
The New Zealand fur seal is a marine mammal native to New Zealand and southern Australia, known for its thick fur, agile swimming, and colonies along rugged coastal and subantarctic shores.
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C.
Mediterranean monk seal
The Mediterranean monk seal is one of the world’s most endangered marine mammals, a rare earless seal native to the Mediterranean and adjacent seas.
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D.
Otter
Otter is a friendly, good-natured river-dwelling animal character in Kenneth Grahame’s classic children’s novel "The Wind in the Willows," known for his devotion to his family and his easy camaraderie with the other riverbank creatures.
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E.
Steller sea lion
The Steller sea lion is a large, cold-water marine mammal of the North Pacific known for its massive size, thick neck, and loud, roaring vocalizations.
- 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: Caspian seal Target entity description: The Caspian seal is a small, endangered earless seal species found exclusively in the landlocked Caspian Sea region.
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A.
Weddell seal
The Weddell seal is a large, deep-diving Antarctic seal species known for living year-round on sea ice and for its remarkable ability to vocalize underwater.
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B.
New Zealand fur seal
The New Zealand fur seal is a marine mammal native to New Zealand and southern Australia, known for its thick fur, agile swimming, and colonies along rugged coastal and subantarctic shores.
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C.
Mediterranean monk seal
The Mediterranean monk seal is one of the world’s most endangered marine mammals, a rare earless seal native to the Mediterranean and adjacent seas.
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D.
Otter
Otter is a friendly, good-natured river-dwelling animal character in Kenneth Grahame’s classic children’s novel "The Wind in the Willows," known for his devotion to his family and his easy camaraderie with the other riverbank creatures.
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E.
Steller sea lion
The Steller sea lion is a large, cold-water marine mammal of the North Pacific known for its massive size, thick neck, and loud, roaring vocalizations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
earless seal
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endangered species ⓘ mammal ⓘ marine mammal ⓘ seal species ⓘ |
| averageAdultLength | about 1.2 to 1.3 metres ⓘ |
| averageAdultMass | about 50 to 80 kilograms ⓘ |
| binomialName |
Pusa caspica
ⓘ
linked to:
Pusa
|
| breedingHabitat |
ice floes
ⓘ
winter ice of the northern Caspian Sea ⓘ |
| class | Mammalia ⓘ |
| conservationConcern | regional symbol of Caspian Sea biodiversity loss ⓘ |
| describedBy | Johann Friedrich Gmelin ⓘ |
| diet |
crustaceans
ⓘ
fish ⓘ gobies ⓘ kilka ⓘ |
| endemicTo | Caspian Sea ⓘ |
| family | Phocidae ⓘ |
| genus | Pusa ⓘ |
| habitat |
ice-covered waters
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islands of the Caspian Sea ⓘ marine coastal waters ⓘ |
| hearing | adapted for underwater hearing ⓘ |
| historicalRange | entire Caspian Sea ⓘ |
| IUCNRedListCategorySystem | IUCN 3.1 ⓘ |
| IUCNStatus | Endangered ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| lactationPeriod | about 4 to 5 weeks ⓘ |
| lifespanInWild | up to about 35 years ⓘ |
| locomotion |
crawling on ice and land
ⓘ
swimming ⓘ |
| mainThreat |
bycatch in fisheries
ⓘ
disease outbreaks ⓘ habitat degradation ⓘ industrial pollution ⓘ overhunting in the 20th century ⓘ |
| maximumBodyLength | about 1.5 metres ⓘ |
| movementPattern | migratory within Caspian Sea ⓘ |
| nativeRange | Caspian Sea ⓘ |
| order | Carnivora ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| populationStatus | severely reduced compared to historical levels ⓘ |
| populationTrend | declining ⓘ |
| previousBinomialName |
Phoca caspica
ⓘ
linked to:
Caspian seal
|
| puppingSeason | winter ⓘ |
| reproduction | gives birth to a single pup per year ⓘ |
| sexualDimorphism | males slightly larger than females ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| vision | adapted for low-light aquatic environments ⓘ |
| yearDescribed | 1788 ⓘ |
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: Caspian seal Description of subject: The Caspian seal is a small, endangered earless seal species found exclusively in the landlocked Caspian Sea region.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.