Caviidae
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Caviidae is a family of rodents that includes guinea pigs, maras, and cavies, characterized by stout bodies, short tails, and herbivorous diets, primarily native to South America.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3884861 — 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: Caviidae Context triple: [Patagonian mara, family, Caviidae]
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Bagridae
Bagridae is a family of ray-finned catfishes commonly known as bagrid or naked catfishes, found primarily in freshwater habitats across Africa and Asia.
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Bovoidea
Bovoidea is a mammalian superfamily within the order Artiodactyla that includes cattle, bison, and their close relatives.
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Catostomidae
Catostomidae is a family of freshwater fishes commonly known as suckers, characterized by their bottom-feeding habits and specialized mouths adapted for scraping food from substrates.
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Mustelidae
Mustelidae is a diverse family of small to medium-sized carnivorous mammals that includes weasels, otters, badgers, ferrets, and wolverines, known for their elongated bodies and often fierce hunting behavior.
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Gobioidei
Gobioidei is a large suborder of mostly small, bottom-dwelling ray-finned fishes that includes gobies and their close relatives, many of which inhabit marine, brackish, and freshwater environments worldwide.
- 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: Caviidae Target entity description: Caviidae is a family of rodents that includes guinea pigs, maras, and cavies, characterized by stout bodies, short tails, and herbivorous diets, primarily native to South America.
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A.
Bagridae
Bagridae is a family of ray-finned catfishes commonly known as bagrid or naked catfishes, found primarily in freshwater habitats across Africa and Asia.
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B.
Bovoidea
Bovoidea is a mammalian superfamily within the order Artiodactyla that includes cattle, bison, and their close relatives.
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C.
Catostomidae
Catostomidae is a family of freshwater fishes commonly known as suckers, characterized by their bottom-feeding habits and specialized mouths adapted for scraping food from substrates.
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D.
Mustelidae
Mustelidae is a diverse family of small to medium-sized carnivorous mammals that includes weasels, otters, badgers, ferrets, and wolverines, known for their elongated bodies and often fierce hunting behavior.
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E.
Gobioidei
Gobioidei is a large suborder of mostly small, bottom-dwelling ray-finned fishes that includes gobies and their close relatives, many of which inhabit marine, brackish, and freshwater environments worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (62)
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: Caviidae Description of subject: Caviidae is a family of rodents that includes guinea pigs, maras, and cavies, characterized by stout bodies, short tails, and herbivorous diets, primarily native to South America.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Caviinae