Australian sea lion
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The Australian sea lion is a rare and endangered pinniped species native to the southern and southwestern coasts of Australia, known for its limited range, strong site fidelity, and complex social behavior.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Australian sea lion canonical | 9 |
| Australian sea lions | 3 |
| Australian sea lion (Neophoca cinerea) | 1 |
| Australian sea-lions | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2638400 — 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: Australian sea lion Context triple: [Great Australian Bight, majorMarineSpecies, Australian sea lion]
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A.
New Zealand sea lion
The New Zealand sea lion is one of the world’s rarest and most threatened sea lion species, endemic to New Zealand’s subantarctic and southern coastal waters.
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B.
New Zealand fur seal
The New Zealand fur seal is a marine mammal native to New Zealand and southern Australia, known for its thick fur, agile swimming, and colonies along rugged coastal and subantarctic shores.
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C.
California sea lion
The California sea lion is a highly social and intelligent marine mammal native to the Pacific coast of North America, known for its agility, loud barking, and frequent presence on coastal beaches and docks.
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D.
Antarctic fur seal
The Antarctic fur seal is a marine mammal of the Southern Ocean known for its dense fur, large breeding colonies, and recovery from historic overhunting.
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E.
Steller sea lion
The Steller sea lion is a large, cold-water marine mammal of the North Pacific known for its massive size, thick neck, and loud, roaring vocalizations.
- 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: Australian sea lion Target entity description: The Australian sea lion is a rare and endangered pinniped species native to the southern and southwestern coasts of Australia, known for its limited range, strong site fidelity, and complex social behavior.
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A.
New Zealand sea lion
The New Zealand sea lion is one of the world’s rarest and most threatened sea lion species, endemic to New Zealand’s subantarctic and southern coastal waters.
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B.
New Zealand fur seal
The New Zealand fur seal is a marine mammal native to New Zealand and southern Australia, known for its thick fur, agile swimming, and colonies along rugged coastal and subantarctic shores.
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C.
California sea lion
The California sea lion is a highly social and intelligent marine mammal native to the Pacific coast of North America, known for its agility, loud barking, and frequent presence on coastal beaches and docks.
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D.
Antarctic fur seal
The Antarctic fur seal is a marine mammal of the Southern Ocean known for its dense fur, large breeding colonies, and recovery from historic overhunting.
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E.
Steller sea lion
The Steller sea lion is a large, cold-water marine mammal of the North Pacific known for its massive size, thick neck, and loud, roaring vocalizations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mammal
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marine mammal ⓘ pinniped ⓘ sea lion ⓘ |
| binomialName |
Neophoca
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surface form:
Neophoca cinerea
|
| breedingSiteType |
offshore islands
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remote coastal beaches ⓘ |
| class | Mammalia ⓘ |
| commonName | Australian sea lion self-link ⓘ |
| conservationStatus | Endangered ⓘ |
| conservationStatusSystem |
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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surface form:
IUCN Red List
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| diet |
cephalopods
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crustaceans ⓘ fish ⓘ |
| family | Otariidae ⓘ |
| femaleColoration | silver-grey ⓘ |
| foragingBehavior |
benthic foraging
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diving predator ⓘ |
| foundInMarineRegion |
Great Australian Bight
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South Australia ⓘ Western Australia ⓘ |
| genus | Neophoca ⓘ |
| hasHabitat |
nearshore reefs
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rocky islands ⓘ sandy beaches ⓘ temperate coastal waters ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| maleColoration | dark brown ⓘ |
| movementPattern | limited dispersal ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Australia
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southern coast of Australia ⓘ southwestern coast of Australia ⓘ |
| order | Carnivora ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| populationTrend | declining ⓘ |
| primaryThreat |
bycatch in fisheries
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entanglement in marine debris ⓘ habitat degradation ⓘ human disturbance at breeding sites ⓘ |
| protectedBy |
Australian national law
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state legislation in South Australia ⓘ state legislation in Western Australia ⓘ |
| rangeCharacteristic | limited geographic range ⓘ |
| reproductiveBehavior |
asynchronous breeding among colonies
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non-annual breeding cycle ⓘ |
| sexualDimorphism | present ⓘ |
| socialBehavior |
colonial breeder
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complex social structure ⓘ strong site fidelity ⓘ |
| suborder | Caniformia ⓘ |
| superfamily | Pinnipedia ⓘ |
| 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: Australian sea lion Description of subject: The Australian sea lion is a rare and endangered pinniped species native to the southern and southwestern coasts of Australia, known for its limited range, strong site fidelity, and complex social behavior.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Australian sea lions
Great Australian Bight Marine National Park (South Australia)
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protectsSpecies
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Australian sea lion
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this entity surface form:
Australian sea-lions
this entity surface form:
Australian sea lions
this entity surface form:
Australian sea lion (Neophoca cinerea)
this entity surface form:
Australian sea lions