Mazama
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Mazama is a genus of small to medium-sized New World deer commonly known as brocket deer, found in forested habitats across Central and South America.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mazama canonical | 2 |
| Mazama gouazoubira | 1 |
| Mazama nana | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1782774 — 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: Mazama Context triple: [Mazama americana, genus, Mazama]
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A.
Mount Veeder
Mount Veeder is a mountain in the Mayacamas range of Northern California, known for its steep, rugged terrain and as the namesake of a prominent Napa Valley winegrowing region.
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B.
Mount Garibaldi
Mount Garibaldi is a glaciated stratovolcano in southwestern British Columbia, Canada, known for its prominent peak overlooking the Sea-to-Sky region near Squamish.
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C.
South Sister
South Sister is the highest and youngest of Oregon’s Three Sisters volcanoes, known for its prominent glaciated peak and popular hiking routes.
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D.
Mount Hunter
Mount Hunter is a prominent, heavily glaciated peak in Alaska known for its steep faces and challenging alpine climbing routes.
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E.
Cima Dome
Cima Dome is a broad, gently rounded granitic landform in California’s Mojave Desert, noted as one of the most symmetrical and classic examples of a geological dome.
- 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: Mazama Target entity description: Mazama is a genus of small to medium-sized New World deer commonly known as brocket deer, found in forested habitats across Central and South America.
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A.
Mount Veeder
Mount Veeder is a mountain in the Mayacamas range of Northern California, known for its steep, rugged terrain and as the namesake of a prominent Napa Valley winegrowing region.
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B.
Mount Garibaldi
Mount Garibaldi is a glaciated stratovolcano in southwestern British Columbia, Canada, known for its prominent peak overlooking the Sea-to-Sky region near Squamish.
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C.
South Sister
South Sister is the highest and youngest of Oregon’s Three Sisters volcanoes, known for its prominent glaciated peak and popular hiking routes.
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D.
Mount Hunter
Mount Hunter is a prominent, heavily glaciated peak in Alaska known for its steep faces and challenging alpine climbing routes.
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E.
Cima Dome
Cima Dome is a broad, gently rounded granitic landform in California’s Mojave Desert, noted as one of the most symmetrical and classic examples of a geological dome.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
genus
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| belongsToSubfamily | Capreolinae ⓘ |
| class | Mammalia ⓘ |
| commonName |
brocket deer
ⓘ
brockets ⓘ |
| diet | herbivorous ⓘ |
| distribution |
Central America
ⓘ
South America ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole | seed disperser ⓘ |
| family | Cervidae ⓘ |
| firstDescribedBy | Constantine Samuel Rafinesque ⓘ |
| foundInBiome |
cloud forest
ⓘ
dry forest ⓘ montane forest ⓘ tropical rainforest ⓘ |
| geographicRealm | Neotropical realm ⓘ |
| habitat |
dense understory vegetation
ⓘ
forests ⓘ subtropical forests ⓘ tropical forests ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
cryptic coloration
ⓘ
short antlers in males ⓘ solitary behavior ⓘ |
| includesTaxon |
Mazama americana
ⓘ
Mazama bororo ⓘ Mazama bricenii ⓘ Mazama chunyi ⓘ Mazama self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Mazama gouazoubira
Mazama self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Mazama nana
Mazama pandora ⓘ Mazama rufina ⓘ Mazama temama ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| locomotion | terrestrial ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Neotropical realm
ⓘ
surface form:
Neotropics
|
| order | Artiodactyla ⓘ |
| parentTaxon | Cervidae ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproductiveStrategy | viviparous ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| trophicGuild | browser ⓘ |
| typeSpecies | Mazama americana ⓘ |
| typicalBodySize | small to medium-sized ⓘ |
| usesHabitat |
forest edges
ⓘ
secondary growth forests ⓘ thickets ⓘ |
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: Mazama Description of subject: Mazama is a genus of small to medium-sized New World deer commonly known as brocket deer, found in forested habitats across Central and South America.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mazama gouazoubira
this entity surface form:
Mazama nana