Pecari tajacu
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Pecari tajacu, commonly known as the collared peccary or javelina, is a medium-sized, pig-like hoofed mammal native to the Americas, inhabiting a range of environments from deserts to tropical forests.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pecari tajacu canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1997619 — 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: Pecari tajacu Context triple: [Tayassuidae, hasMember, Pecari tajacu]
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A.
Pischa
Pischa is a mountain area and ski region near Davos in the Swiss Alps, known for its freeride terrain and winter sports opportunities.
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B.
Tapirira
Tapirira is a genus of tropical trees in the cashew and sumac family, known for species that often dominate lowland Neotropical forests.
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C.
Ratufa
Ratufa is a genus of large, colorful Old World giant squirrels native to the forests of South and Southeast Asia.
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D.
Huajicori
Huajicori is a small municipality and town located in the northern part of the Mexican state of Nayarit.
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E.
Pekela
Pekela is a municipality in the province of Groningen in the northeastern Netherlands, known for its rural character and historical peat colonies.
- 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: Pecari tajacu Target entity description: Pecari tajacu, commonly known as the collared peccary or javelina, is a medium-sized, pig-like hoofed mammal native to the Americas, inhabiting a range of environments from deserts to tropical forests.
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A.
Pischa
Pischa is a mountain area and ski region near Davos in the Swiss Alps, known for its freeride terrain and winter sports opportunities.
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B.
Tapirira
Tapirira is a genus of tropical trees in the cashew and sumac family, known for species that often dominate lowland Neotropical forests.
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C.
Ratufa
Ratufa is a genus of large, colorful Old World giant squirrels native to the forests of South and Southeast Asia.
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D.
Huajicori
Huajicori is a small municipality and town located in the northern part of the Mexican state of Nayarit.
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E.
Pekela
Pekela is a municipality in the province of Groningen in the northeastern Netherlands, known for its rural character and historical peat colonies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
even-toed ungulate
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mammal ⓘ peccary ⓘ species ⓘ |
| activityPattern | diurnal ⓘ |
| binomialName | Pecari tajacu self-link ⓘ |
| class | Mammalia ⓘ |
| commonName |
Pecari
ⓘ
surface form:
collared peccary
javelina ⓘ musk hog ⓘ |
| conservationStatus | Least Concern ⓘ |
| diet | omnivorous ⓘ |
| eats |
cacti
ⓘ
fruits ⓘ invertebrates ⓘ roots ⓘ seeds ⓘ |
| family | Tayassuidae ⓘ |
| forms | herds ⓘ |
| foundIn |
deserts
ⓘ
dry forests ⓘ grasslands ⓘ scrublands ⓘ secondary forests ⓘ thorn forests ⓘ tropical forests ⓘ |
| genus | Pecari ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
coarse bristly coat
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collar-like band of lighter fur around neck ⓘ pig-like appearance ⓘ scent gland on rump ⓘ short legs ⓘ |
| introducedTo | southern United States ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| litterSize | usually 1 to 3 young ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Americas
ⓘ
Central America ⓘ North America ⓘ South America ⓘ |
| occursIn |
Arizona
ⓘ
Brazil ⓘ Colombia ⓘ Mexico ⓘ New Mexico ⓘ Peru ⓘ Texas ⓘ |
| order | Artiodactyla ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproduction | viviparous ⓘ |
| socialBehavior | gregarious ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
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: Pecari tajacu Description of subject: Pecari tajacu, commonly known as the collared peccary or javelina, is a medium-sized, pig-like hoofed mammal native to the Americas, inhabiting a range of environments from deserts to tropical forests.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
collared peccary