Vertebrata
E13896
Vertebrata is a major subphylum of chordates comprising animals with backbones or spinal columns, including fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vertebrata canonical | 39 |
| Craniata | 3 |
| Tetrapoda | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T111527 — 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: Vertebrata Context triple: [Chordata, includes, Vertebrata]
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A.
Chordata
Chordata is a major animal phylum that includes all vertebrates and their closest invertebrate relatives, characterized by having a notochord at some stage of development.
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B.
Echinodermata
Echinodermata is a phylum of marine invertebrates that includes starfish, sea urchins, sand dollars, and sea cucumbers, characterized by radial symmetry and a water vascular system.
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C.
Animalia
Animalia is the biological kingdom comprising all multicellular animals, characterized by eukaryotic, heterotrophic organisms that typically have specialized tissues and the ability to move.
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D.
Actinopterygii
Actinopterygii is the diverse class of ray-finned fishes that comprises the vast majority of modern fish species found in marine and freshwater environments.
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E.
Artiodactyla
Artiodactyla is a large order of even-toed hoofed mammals that includes animals such as deer, cattle, pigs, and camels.
- 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: Vertebrata Target entity description: Vertebrata is a major subphylum of chordates comprising animals with backbones or spinal columns, including fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.
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A.
Chordata
Chordata is a major animal phylum that includes all vertebrates and their closest invertebrate relatives, characterized by having a notochord at some stage of development.
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B.
Echinodermata
Echinodermata is a phylum of marine invertebrates that includes starfish, sea urchins, sand dollars, and sea cucumbers, characterized by radial symmetry and a water vascular system.
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C.
Animalia
Animalia is the biological kingdom comprising all multicellular animals, characterized by eukaryotic, heterotrophic organisms that typically have specialized tissues and the ability to move.
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D.
Actinopterygii
Actinopterygii is the diverse class of ray-finned fishes that comprises the vast majority of modern fish species found in marine and freshwater environments.
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E.
Artiodactyla
Artiodactyla is a large order of even-toed hoofed mammals that includes animals such as deer, cattle, pigs, and camels.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
subphylum
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| coelomType | coelomate ⓘ |
| fertilizationType |
external fertilization
ⓘ
internal fertilization ⓘ |
| habitat |
freshwater environments
ⓘ
marine environments ⓘ terrestrial environments ⓘ |
| hasBodyPlan | triploblastic ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
bilateral symmetry
ⓘ
brain protected by cranium ⓘ closed circulatory system ⓘ complex nervous system ⓘ dorsal hollow nerve cord ⓘ endoskeleton ⓘ internal skeleton of bone or cartilage ⓘ muscular pharynx ⓘ paired sense organs ⓘ pharyngeal slits at some life stage ⓘ post-anal tail at some life stage ⓘ presence of spinal cord ⓘ presence of vertebral column ⓘ red blood cells with hemoglobin ⓘ segmented vertebral column ⓘ ventral heart ⓘ well-developed head ⓘ |
| hasFossilRecordSince |
Cambrian Period
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surface form:
Cambrian period
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| hasImportance | dominant large animals in most ecosystems ⓘ |
| hasMetabolism | aerobic respiration ⓘ |
| hasSubdivision |
jawed vertebrates
ⓘ
jawless vertebrates ⓘ |
| hasSynonym |
Vertebrata
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Craniata
|
| includesTaxon |
Agnatha
ⓘ
Amphibia ⓘ Aves ⓘ Chondrichthyes ⓘ Gnathostomata ⓘ Mammalia ⓘ Osteichthyes ⓘ Reptilia ⓘ amphibians ⓘ birds ⓘ fishes ⓘ mammals ⓘ reptiles ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| locomotion |
flying
ⓘ
swimming ⓘ walking ⓘ |
| parentTaxon | Chordata ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproduction | sexual reproduction ⓘ |
| taxonRank | subphylum ⓘ |
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: Vertebrata Description of subject: Vertebrata is a major subphylum of chordates comprising animals with backbones or spinal columns, including fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.
Referenced by (45)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Craniata
this entity surface form:
Tetrapoda
this entity surface form:
Craniata
this entity surface form:
Tetrapoda
this entity surface form:
Tetrapoda