Sacalia
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Sacalia is a small genus of Asian freshwater turtles commonly known as eyeless or four-eyed turtles, recognized for the distinctive eye-like spots on the back of their heads.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sacalia canonical | 3 |
| Sacalia bealei | 1 |
| Sacalia quadriocellata | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13286661 — 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: Sacalia Context triple: [Geoemydidae, containsTaxon, Sacalia]
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A.
Salamina
Salamina is the main town and administrative center of Salamis Island in Greece, known for its coastal setting and role as the island’s primary hub of local life and services.
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B.
Salamina
Salamina is a historic Colombian town in the Caldas Department, renowned for its well-preserved colonial architecture and coffee-growing heritage in the Andean region.
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C.
Goodea
Goodea is a genus of small freshwater fishes native to Mexico, commonly known as goodeids and noted for their livebearing reproduction.
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D.
Salvin
Salvin was a 19th-century British ornithologist known for describing numerous bird species from Central and South America.
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E.
Garrodia
Garrodia is a genus of small seabirds known as storm petrels within the family Hydrobatidae.
- 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: Sacalia Target entity description: Sacalia is a small genus of Asian freshwater turtles commonly known as eyeless or four-eyed turtles, recognized for the distinctive eye-like spots on the back of their heads.
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A.
Salamina
Salamina is the main town and administrative center of Salamis Island in Greece, known for its coastal setting and role as the island’s primary hub of local life and services.
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B.
Salamina
Salamina is a historic Colombian town in the Caldas Department, renowned for its well-preserved colonial architecture and coffee-growing heritage in the Andean region.
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C.
Goodea
Goodea is a genus of small freshwater fishes native to Mexico, commonly known as goodeids and noted for their livebearing reproduction.
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D.
Salvin
Salvin was a 19th-century British ornithologist known for describing numerous bird species from Central and South America.
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E.
Garrodia
Garrodia is a genus of small seabirds known as storm petrels within the family Hydrobatidae.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
genus of turtles
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ turtle species ⓘ turtle species ⓘ |
| activityPattern | mostly nocturnal or crepuscular ⓘ |
| bodyTemperatureRegulation | ectothermic ⓘ |
| class | Reptilia ⓘ |
| commonName |
Beal’s four-eyed turtle
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eyeless turtles ⓘ four-eyed turtle ⓘ four-eyed turtles ⓘ |
| conservationStatus | many species threatened or endangered in the wild ⓘ |
| diet | omnivorous ⓘ |
| distinguishingFeature |
eye-like spots on the back of the head
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small body size ⓘ |
| distribution | East Asia ⓘ |
| family | Geoemydidae ⓘ |
| firstDescribedAsGenusBy | John Edward Gray ⓘ |
| firstDescriptionCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| foundIn |
forest creeks
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rivers ⓘ streams ⓘ |
| genus |
Sacalia
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Sacalia ⓘ |
| habitat | freshwater ⓘ |
| hasHeadMarkings | pair of eye-like ocelli behind each eye ⓘ |
| hasSpecies |
Sacalia bealei
ⓘ
linked to:
Sacalia
Sacalia quadriocellata ⓘ
linked to:
Sacalia
|
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| lifestyle | semi-aquatic ⓘ |
| nativeTo | Asia ⓘ |
| order | Testudines ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| recognizedBy | herpetologists as a distinct genus within Geoemydidae ⓘ |
| reproduction | oviparous ⓘ |
| shellType | hard-shelled ⓘ |
| subfamily |
Geoemydinae
ⓘ
linked to:
Geoemydidae
|
| superfamily | Testudinoidea ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| threat |
habitat loss
ⓘ
overcollection for pet trade ⓘ overexploitation for food ⓘ |
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: Sacalia Description of subject: Sacalia is a small genus of Asian freshwater turtles commonly known as eyeless or four-eyed turtles, recognized for the distinctive eye-like spots on the back of their heads.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sacalia
linked to: Sacalia