Viverridae
E178107
Viverridae is a family of small to medium-sized, often nocturnal mammals such as civets and genets, known for their elongated bodies, pointed faces, and primarily Old World distribution.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Viverridae canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1500301 — 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: Viverridae Context triple: [Carnivora, includesFamily, Viverridae]
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A.
Feliformia
Feliformia is a suborder of carnivorous mammals that includes cats, hyenas, mongooses, and related species characterized by specialized skull and dental features.
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B.
Herpestidae
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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: Viverridae Target entity description: Viverridae is a family of small to medium-sized, often nocturnal mammals such as civets and genets, known for their elongated bodies, pointed faces, and primarily Old World distribution.
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A.
Feliformia
Feliformia is a suborder of carnivorous mammals that includes cats, hyenas, mongooses, and related species characterized by specialized skull and dental features.
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B.
Herpestidae
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mammal family
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| activityPattern |
crepuscular
ⓘ
nocturnal ⓘ |
| bodySize | small to medium-sized ⓘ |
| class | Mammalia ⓘ |
| commonName | viverrids ⓘ |
| dentitionType | carnassial teeth present ⓘ |
| describedBy | John Edward Gray ⓘ |
| describedInYear | 1821 ⓘ |
| diet |
carnivorous
ⓘ
omnivorous ⓘ |
| economicUse |
bushmeat
ⓘ
source of civet musk ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution | Old World ⓘ |
| habitat |
rocky areas
ⓘ
savannas ⓘ tropical forests ⓘ woodlands ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
anal scent glands
ⓘ
elongated body ⓘ long tail ⓘ pointed face ⓘ short legs ⓘ |
| includesCommonGroups |
binturongs
ⓘ
civets ⓘ genets ⓘ linsangs ⓘ palm civets ⓘ |
| introducedTo |
Madagascar
ⓘ
various Indian Ocean islands ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| litterSizeRange | 1–4 young ⓘ |
| locomotion |
arboreal
ⓘ
terrestrial ⓘ |
| nativeToContinent |
Africa
ⓘ
Asia ⓘ |
| nativeToRegion | southern Europe ⓘ |
| order | Carnivora ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Eupleridae
ⓘ
Felidae ⓘ Herpestidae ⓘ |
| reproduction | placental ⓘ |
| socialStructure | mostly solitary ⓘ |
| suborder | Feliformia ⓘ |
| taxonRank | family ⓘ |
| threats |
habitat loss
ⓘ
hunting ⓘ |
| typeGenus | Viverra ⓘ |
| typicalFood |
berries
ⓘ
fruits ⓘ |
| typicalPrey |
invertebrates
ⓘ
small vertebrates ⓘ |
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: Viverridae Description of subject: Viverridae is a family of small to medium-sized, often nocturnal mammals such as civets and genets, known for their elongated bodies, pointed faces, and primarily Old World distribution.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.