Canidae
E162089
Canidae is the biological family of carnivorous and omnivorous mammals that includes dogs, wolves, foxes, jackals, and related canids.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Canidae canonical | 72 |
| North American canids | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1412786 — 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: Canidae Context triple: [African wild dog, family, Canidae]
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A.
Ursidae
Ursidae is the biological family of mammals that includes bears, such as brown bears, polar bears, and black bears, characterized by large bodies, strong limbs, and omnivorous diets.
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B.
Carnivora
Carnivora is a diverse order of primarily meat-eating mammals that includes families such as bears, cats, dogs, weasels, and seals.
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C.
Tayassuidae
Tayassuidae is a family of pig-like hoofed mammals known as peccaries, native to the Americas and adapted to a variety of habitats from deserts to tropical forests.
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D.
Felidae
Felidae is the biological family of cats, encompassing all modern and extinct species of wild and domestic felines such as lions, tigers, leopards, and house cats.
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E.
Antilocapridae
Antilocapridae is a family of North American hoofed mammals best known for the pronghorn, a swift, antelope-like species with distinctive forked horns.
- 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: Canidae Target entity description: Canidae is the biological family of carnivorous and omnivorous mammals that includes dogs, wolves, foxes, jackals, and related canids.
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A.
Ursidae
Ursidae is the biological family of mammals that includes bears, such as brown bears, polar bears, and black bears, characterized by large bodies, strong limbs, and omnivorous diets.
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B.
Carnivora
Carnivora is a diverse order of primarily meat-eating mammals that includes families such as bears, cats, dogs, weasels, and seals.
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C.
Tayassuidae
Tayassuidae is a family of pig-like hoofed mammals known as peccaries, native to the Americas and adapted to a variety of habitats from deserts to tropical forests.
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D.
Felidae
Felidae is the biological family of cats, encompassing all modern and extinct species of wild and domestic felines such as lions, tigers, leopards, and house cats.
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E.
Antilocapridae
Antilocapridae is a family of North American hoofed mammals best known for the pronghorn, a swift, antelope-like species with distinctive forked horns.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biological family
ⓘ
family of mammals ⓘ taxon ⓘ |
| class | Mammalia ⓘ |
| commonName | canids ⓘ |
| containsSubfamily |
Borophaginae
ⓘ
Caninae ⓘ Hesperocyoninae ⓘ |
| diet |
carnivorous
ⓘ
omnivorous ⓘ |
| extantSubfamily | Caninae ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Eocene
ⓘ
about 40 million years ago ⓘ |
| foundOn | all continents except Antarctica ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
digitigrade locomotion
ⓘ
non‑retractile claws ⓘ often form packs ⓘ social behavior common ⓘ well‑developed sense of smell ⓘ |
| hasEcologicalRole |
predators
ⓘ
scavengers ⓘ seed dispersers in some species ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
bushy tail
ⓘ
relatively long legs ⓘ typically long muzzle ⓘ |
| includes |
coyotes
ⓘ
dingoes ⓘ dogs ⓘ domestic dog ⓘ foxes ⓘ gray wolf ⓘ jackals ⓘ red fox ⓘ wolves ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| nativeRange |
Africa
ⓘ
Asia ⓘ Australia ⓘ Europe ⓘ North America ⓘ South America ⓘ |
| order | Carnivora ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproduction | viviparous ⓘ |
| suborder | Caniformia ⓘ |
| taxonRank | family ⓘ |
| typeGenus | Canis ⓘ |
| usedByHumansFor |
companionship
ⓘ
herding ⓘ hunting ⓘ security ⓘ |
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: Canidae Description of subject: Canidae is the biological family of carnivorous and omnivorous mammals that includes dogs, wolves, foxes, jackals, and related canids.
Referenced by (73)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.