Protoceratidae
E223421
Protoceratidae is an extinct family of North American herbivorous artiodactyl mammals that resembled horned deer but were more closely related to camel-like tylopods.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Protoceras | 1 |
| Protoceratidae canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1998003 — 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: Protoceratidae Context triple: [Tylopoda, includesTaxon, Protoceratidae]
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A.
Conirostrum
Conirostrum is a genus of small Neotropical songbirds known as cone-billed tanagers, characterized by their slender, pointed bills and association with the tanager family.
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B.
Pachycephalidae
Pachycephalidae is a family of passerine birds, commonly known as whistlers and their allies, found mainly in Australasia and noted for their strong, melodious vocalizations.
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C.
Protoxerini
Protoxerini is a tribe of ground-dwelling squirrels within the squirrel subfamily Xerinae, comprising several African genera.
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D.
Lasiorhinus latifrons
Lasiorhinus latifrons is the southern hairy-nosed wombat, a burrowing herbivorous marsupial native to arid regions of southern Australia.
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E.
Aepycerotinae
Aepycerotinae is a subfamily of African antelopes best known for including the impala, a medium-sized, agile grazer and browser of savanna and woodland habitats.
- 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: Protoceratidae Target entity description: Protoceratidae is an extinct family of North American herbivorous artiodactyl mammals that resembled horned deer but were more closely related to camel-like tylopods.
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A.
Conirostrum
Conirostrum is a genus of small Neotropical songbirds known as cone-billed tanagers, characterized by their slender, pointed bills and association with the tanager family.
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B.
Pachycephalidae
Pachycephalidae is a family of passerine birds, commonly known as whistlers and their allies, found mainly in Australasia and noted for their strong, melodious vocalizations.
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C.
Protoxerini
Protoxerini is a tribe of ground-dwelling squirrels within the squirrel subfamily Xerinae, comprising several African genera.
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D.
Lasiorhinus latifrons
Lasiorhinus latifrons is the southern hairy-nosed wombat, a burrowing herbivorous marsupial native to arid regions of southern Australia.
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E.
Aepycerotinae
Aepycerotinae is a subfamily of African antelopes best known for including the impala, a medium-sized, agile grazer and browser of savanna and woodland habitats.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
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: Protoceratidae Description of subject: Protoceratidae is an extinct family of North American herbivorous artiodactyl mammals that resembled horned deer but were more closely related to camel-like tylopods.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Protoceras