Tubulidentata
E193066
Tubulidentata is an order of African mammals best known for the aardvark, characterized by specialized tubular teeth and adaptations for feeding on ants and termites.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tubulidentata canonical | 2 |
| Orycteropodidae | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1742323 — 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: Tubulidentata Context triple: [Eutheria, includes, Tubulidentata]
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A.
Peramelemorphia
Peramelemorphia is an order of Australasian marsupials that includes bandicoots and bilbies, characterized by their pointed snouts, omnivorous diet, and burrowing habits.
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B.
Perissodactyla
Perissodactyla is an order of odd-toed hoofed mammals that includes horses, rhinoceroses, and tapirs, characterized by weight-bearing on one or three toes and a hindgut-fermenting digestive system.
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C.
Vombatiformes
Vombatiformes is a suborder of marsupials that includes wombats and the koala, characterized by stout bodies and herbivorous diets.
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D.
Tylopoda
Tylopoda is a suborder of even-toed ungulates that includes camels and their close relatives, characterized by distinctive foot structures adapted for walking on soft or sandy terrain.
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E.
Cryptodira
Cryptodira is a major suborder of turtles characterized by their ability to retract the head straight back into the shell by bending the neck in a vertical S-shaped curve.
- 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: Tubulidentata Target entity description: Tubulidentata is an order of African mammals best known for the aardvark, characterized by specialized tubular teeth and adaptations for feeding on ants and termites.
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A.
Peramelemorphia
Peramelemorphia is an order of Australasian marsupials that includes bandicoots and bilbies, characterized by their pointed snouts, omnivorous diet, and burrowing habits.
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B.
Perissodactyla
Perissodactyla is an order of odd-toed hoofed mammals that includes horses, rhinoceroses, and tapirs, characterized by weight-bearing on one or three toes and a hindgut-fermenting digestive system.
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C.
Vombatiformes
Vombatiformes is a suborder of marsupials that includes wombats and the koala, characterized by stout bodies and herbivorous diets.
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D.
Tylopoda
Tylopoda is a suborder of even-toed ungulates that includes camels and their close relatives, characterized by distinctive foot structures adapted for walking on soft or sandy terrain.
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E.
Cryptodira
Cryptodira is a major suborder of turtles characterized by their ability to retract the head straight back into the shell by bending the neck in a vertical S-shaped curve.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | mammal order ⓘ |
| activityPattern | nocturnal ⓘ |
| belongsToClade |
Eutheria
ⓘ
surface form:
Placentalia
|
| bestKnownSpecies | aardvark ⓘ |
| characterizedBy |
adaptations for myrmecophagy
ⓘ
teeth lacking enamel ⓘ tubular teeth ⓘ |
| class | Mammalia ⓘ |
| commonName | tubulidentates ⓘ |
| containsTaxon | Orycteropus afer ⓘ |
| describedAs | order of African mammals ⓘ |
| diet |
ants
ⓘ
termites ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole | insectivore ⓘ |
| feedingBehavior |
nocturnal foraging
ⓘ
specialized ant and termite feeding ⓘ |
| foragingSubstrate | ground-dwelling social insects ⓘ |
| hasDentalStructure |
ever-growing teeth
ⓘ
teeth composed of many hexagonal prisms ⓘ |
| hasLivingRepresentative | Orycteropus afer ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
elongated snout
ⓘ
long protrusible tongue ⓘ powerful forelimbs ⓘ strong digging claws ⓘ |
| hasSensoryAdaptation |
reduced vision
ⓘ
strong sense of smell ⓘ |
| hasSkinCovering | sparse hair ⓘ |
| hasVertebralColumn | true ⓘ |
| infraclass | Eutheria ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| locomotion | terrestrial ⓘ |
| namedAfter | tubular teeth ⓘ |
| nativeRange | Africa ⓘ |
| orderIncludes |
Tubulidentata
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Orycteropodidae
|
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproduction | viviparous ⓘ |
| shelterBehavior | burrow dwelling ⓘ |
| superorder | Afrotheria ⓘ |
| taxonRank | order ⓘ |
| typeGenus |
Orycteropus afer
ⓘ
surface form:
Orycteropus
|
| warmBlooded | true ⓘ |
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: Tubulidentata Description of subject: Tubulidentata is an order of African mammals best known for the aardvark, characterized by specialized tubular teeth and adaptations for feeding on ants and termites.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Orycteropodidae