Tapirus terrestris
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Tapirus terrestris, commonly known as the South American tapir, is a large, herbivorous mammal with a short prehensile snout that inhabits forests and wetlands across much of South America.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tapirus terrestris canonical | 3 |
| Brazilian tapir | 1 |
| tapir (Tapirus terrestris) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2380685 — 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: Tapirus terrestris Context triple: [Perissodactyla, exampleSpecies, Tapirus terrestris]
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A.
Chacoan peccary
The Chacoan peccary is a rare, pig-like mammal native to the Gran Chaco region of South America, notable for having been known from fossils before its living populations were discovered in the 20th century.
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B.
Hippocamelus bisulcus
Hippocamelus bisulcus, commonly known as the South Andean deer or huemul, is an endangered deer species native to the mountainous regions of southern Chile and Argentina.
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C.
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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D.
Okapia johnstoni
Okapia johnstoni, commonly known as the okapi, is a forest-dwelling mammal from central Africa that resembles a cross between a giraffe and a zebra and is the only living relative of the giraffe.
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E.
white-lipped peccary
The white-lipped peccary is a social, pig-like hoofed mammal native to Central and South American forests, known for its large herds and important ecological role as a seed predator and ecosystem engineer.
- 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: Tapirus terrestris Target entity description: Tapirus terrestris, commonly known as the South American tapir, is a large, herbivorous mammal with a short prehensile snout that inhabits forests and wetlands across much of South America.
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A.
Chacoan peccary
The Chacoan peccary is a rare, pig-like mammal native to the Gran Chaco region of South America, notable for having been known from fossils before its living populations were discovered in the 20th century.
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B.
Hippocamelus bisulcus
Hippocamelus bisulcus, commonly known as the South Andean deer or huemul, is an endangered deer species native to the mountainous regions of southern Chile and Argentina.
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C.
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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D.
Okapia johnstoni
Okapia johnstoni, commonly known as the okapi, is a forest-dwelling mammal from central Africa that resembles a cross between a giraffe and a zebra and is the only living relative of the giraffe.
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E.
white-lipped peccary
The white-lipped peccary is a social, pig-like hoofed mammal native to Central and South American forests, known for its large herds and important ecological role as a seed predator and ecosystem engineer.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
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: Tapirus terrestris Description of subject: Tapirus terrestris, commonly known as the South American tapir, is a large, herbivorous mammal with a short prehensile snout that inhabits forests and wetlands across much of South America.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
tapir (Tapirus terrestris)
this entity surface form:
Brazilian tapir