Bison bison
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Bison bison is the American bison, a large, hump-shouldered grazing mammal native to North America and a prominent symbol of the Great Plains.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| American bison | 22 |
| Bison bison canonical | 3 |
| Bison | 2 |
| Bison bison athabascae | 1 |
| buffalo (American bison) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T774106 — 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: Bison bison Context triple: [Bovidae, includesTaxon, Bison bison]
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A.
Bison
Bison is the official mascot of Howard University, symbolizing the institution’s strength, resilience, and historic legacy.
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B.
Antelope
Antelope is a suburban community in Sacramento County, California, known primarily as a residential area near the city of Sacramento.
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C.
Roosevelt elk
The Roosevelt elk is the largest subspecies of North American elk, native to the Pacific Northwest’s temperate rainforests and known for its impressive size and massive antlers.
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Cervus elaphus
Cervus elaphus, commonly known as the red deer, is a large, widespread species of deer native to Europe, parts of Asia, and North Africa, and is one of the most studied and culturally significant wild ungulates.
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E.
Bos taurus
Bos taurus is the domesticated cattle species widely raised worldwide for meat, milk, and labor.
- 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: Bison bison Target entity description: Bison bison is the American bison, a large, hump-shouldered grazing mammal native to North America and a prominent symbol of the Great Plains.
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A.
Bison
Bison is the official mascot of Howard University, symbolizing the institution’s strength, resilience, and historic legacy.
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B.
Antelope
Antelope is a suburban community in Sacramento County, California, known primarily as a residential area near the city of Sacramento.
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C.
Roosevelt elk
The Roosevelt elk is the largest subspecies of North American elk, native to the Pacific Northwest’s temperate rainforests and known for its impressive size and massive antlers.
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D.
Cervus elaphus
Cervus elaphus, commonly known as the red deer, is a large, widespread species of deer native to Europe, parts of Asia, and North Africa, and is one of the most studied and culturally significant wild ungulates.
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E.
Bos taurus
Bos taurus is the domesticated cattle species widely raised worldwide for meat, milk, and labor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bovid
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mammal ⓘ species ⓘ |
| averageLifespanInWild | about 15 years ⓘ |
| class | Mammalia ⓘ |
| commonName |
American bison
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linked to:
Bison bison
American buffalo ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance |
important to many Indigenous peoples of North America
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symbol of the Great Plains ⓘ |
| currentRange | fragmented populations in North America ⓘ |
| describedBy | Carl Linnaeus ⓘ |
| diet | herbivorous ⓘ |
| family | Bovidae ⓘ |
| forms | herds ⓘ |
| gestationPeriod | about 9 months ⓘ |
| hasBodyLength | approximately 2 to 3.5 meters ⓘ |
| hasBodyMass | up to about 1000 kg in large males ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
hump-shouldered
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short curved horns ⓘ thick fur ⓘ |
| hasConservationStatus | Near Threatened ⓘ |
| hasShoulderHeight | approximately 1.5 to 2 meters ⓘ |
| hasSubspecies |
Bison bison athabascae
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linked to:
Bison bison
Bison bison bison ⓘ |
| historicalRange |
from Alaska to northern Mexico
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from the Rocky Mountains to the Appalachian region ⓘ |
| hornPresence | both sexes horned ⓘ |
| iucnStatusSystem |
IUCN Red List
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linked to:
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| legalStatus | national mammal of the United States ⓘ |
| maximumLifespanInCaptivity | over 20 years ⓘ |
| movementPattern | migratory or seasonally nomadic ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Great Plains
ⓘ
North America ⓘ |
| order | Artiodactyla ⓘ |
| parentTaxon | Bison ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| primaryFood |
grasses
ⓘ
sedges ⓘ |
| reproductiveStrategy | viviparous ⓘ |
| sexualDimorphism | males larger than females ⓘ |
| socialBehavior | gregarious ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| threat |
habitat loss
ⓘ
historical overhunting ⓘ |
| typicalHabitat |
grassland
ⓘ
open woodland ⓘ prairie ⓘ |
| usedFor |
conservation grazing
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hides ⓘ meat ⓘ |
| yearDescribed | 1758 ⓘ |
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: Bison bison Description of subject: Bison bison is the American bison, a large, hump-shouldered grazing mammal native to North America and a prominent symbol of the Great Plains.
Referenced by (29)
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Bethany College, Bethany, Virginia
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American Buffalo gold bullion coins
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