Herpestidae
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Herpestidae is a family of small to medium-sized carnivorous mammals, including mongooses and their relatives, known for their agility and often social behavior.
All labels observed (1)
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| Herpestidae canonical | 24 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1500299 — 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: Herpestidae Context triple: [Carnivora, includesFamily, Herpestidae]
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Mephitidae
Mephitidae is a family of mammals best known for skunks and their close relatives, characterized by their ability to spray a strong-smelling defensive secretion.
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B.
Mustelidae
Mustelidae is a diverse family of small to medium-sized carnivorous mammals that includes weasels, otters, badgers, ferrets, and wolverines, known for their elongated bodies and often fierce hunting behavior.
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C.
Procyonidae
Procyonidae is a family of small to medium-sized omnivorous mammals that includes raccoons, coatis, and their close relatives, primarily native to the Americas.
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D.
Eupleridae
Eupleridae is a family of carnivorous mammals endemic to Madagascar, including animals such as the fossa and Malagasy mongooses, that evolved from a common ancestor related to other carnivorans.
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E.
Petauridae
Petauridae is a family of small, nocturnal Australasian marsupials that includes gliders and striped possums known for their ability to glide or leap between trees.
- 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: Herpestidae Target entity description: Herpestidae is a family of small to medium-sized carnivorous mammals, including mongooses and their relatives, known for their agility and often social behavior.
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A.
Mephitidae
Mephitidae is a family of mammals best known for skunks and their close relatives, characterized by their ability to spray a strong-smelling defensive secretion.
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B.
Mustelidae
Mustelidae is a diverse family of small to medium-sized carnivorous mammals that includes weasels, otters, badgers, ferrets, and wolverines, known for their elongated bodies and often fierce hunting behavior.
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C.
Procyonidae
Procyonidae is a family of small to medium-sized omnivorous mammals that includes raccoons, coatis, and their close relatives, primarily native to the Americas.
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D.
Eupleridae
Eupleridae is a family of carnivorous mammals endemic to Madagascar, including animals such as the fossa and Malagasy mongooses, that evolved from a common ancestor related to other carnivorans.
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E.
Petauridae
Petauridae is a family of small, nocturnal Australasian marsupials that includes gliders and striped possums known for their ability to glide or leap between trees.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (69)
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: Herpestidae Description of subject: Herpestidae is a family of small to medium-sized carnivorous mammals, including mongooses and their relatives, known for their agility and often social behavior.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.