Kobus
E400415
Kobus is a genus of medium-sized African antelopes that includes species such as waterbucks and lechwes, typically associated with wetland and riverside habitats.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kobus canonical | 6 |
| Kobus leche | 4 |
| Kobus kob | 3 |
| Kobus vardonii | 2 |
| Kobus anselli | 1 |
| Kobus kob thomasi | 1 |
| Kobus leche leche | 1 |
| Ugandan kob | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3925827 — 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: Kobus Context triple: [Reduncinae, includesGenus, Kobus]
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A.
Dawakin Kudu
Dawakin Kudu is a prominent town and local government area in northern Nigeria known for its role in agriculture and education within Kano State.
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B.
Kenzi
Kenzi is a Nubian language spoken in southern Egypt, closely related to Nobiin and part of the broader Nubian language family along the Nile.
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C.
Wamba
Wamba is a town and administrative local government area in Nasarawa State, central Nigeria, known for its diverse ethnic communities and agricultural activities.
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D.
Wamba
Wamba was a 7th-century king of the Visigoths in Hispania, known for his military campaigns and efforts to strengthen royal authority.
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E.
Dongo
Dongo is a small town on the northwestern shore of Lake Como in Lombardy, Italy, known for its role in the capture of Benito Mussolini at the end of World War II.
- 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: Kobus Target entity description: Kobus is a genus of medium-sized African antelopes that includes species such as waterbucks and lechwes, typically associated with wetland and riverside habitats.
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A.
Dawakin Kudu
Dawakin Kudu is a prominent town and local government area in northern Nigeria known for its role in agriculture and education within Kano State.
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B.
Kenzi
Kenzi is a Nubian language spoken in southern Egypt, closely related to Nobiin and part of the broader Nubian language family along the Nile.
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C.
Wamba
Wamba is a town and administrative local government area in Nasarawa State, central Nigeria, known for its diverse ethnic communities and agricultural activities.
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D.
Wamba
Wamba was a 7th-century king of the Visigoths in Hispania, known for his military campaigns and efforts to strengthen royal authority.
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E.
Dongo
Dongo is a small town on the northwestern shore of Lake Como in Lombardy, Italy, known for its role in the capture of Benito Mussolini at the end of World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
genus
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| adaptation | well adapted to wet and swampy ground ⓘ |
| belongsToClade | Ruminantia ⓘ |
| bodySize | medium-sized antelopes ⓘ |
| characteristic |
males typically have ringed horns
ⓘ
sexually dimorphic with larger males ⓘ |
| class | Mammalia ⓘ |
| commonName |
Nile lechwe
ⓘ
Upemba lechwe ⓘ kob ⓘ kobus ⓘ puku ⓘ Lechwe antelope ⓘ
surface form:
southern lechwe
waterbuck ⓘ |
| conservationConcern | some species are threatened by habitat loss ⓘ |
| describedAs | genus of medium-sized African antelopes ⓘ |
| diet | herbivorous ⓘ |
| family | Bovidae ⓘ |
| foundInBiome |
flooded grassland
ⓘ
riverine woodland ⓘ savanna ⓘ |
| hasTypeOf |
lechwes
ⓘ
waterbucks ⓘ |
| includesTaxon |
Kobus
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Kobus anselli
Kobus ellipsiprymnus ⓘ Kobus self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Kobus kob
Kobus self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Kobus leche
Kobus megaceros ⓘ Kobus self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Kobus vardonii
|
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| locomotion | cursorial ⓘ |
| nativeTo | Africa ⓘ |
| order | Artiodactyla ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproduction |
polygynous mating system
ⓘ
viviparous ⓘ |
| socialStructure | forms herds ⓘ |
| subfamily | Reduncinae ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| trophicGuild | grazer ⓘ |
| typicalHabitat |
floodplains
ⓘ
marshes ⓘ riverside habitats ⓘ wetlands ⓘ |
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: Kobus Description of subject: Kobus is a genus of medium-sized African antelopes that includes species such as waterbucks and lechwes, typically associated with wetland and riverside habitats.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Kobus kob
this entity surface form:
Kobus leche
this entity surface form:
Kobus vardonii
this entity surface form:
Kobus kob
this entity surface form:
Kobus kob thomasi
this entity surface form:
Ugandan kob
this entity surface form:
Kobus leche
this entity surface form:
Kobus leche
this entity surface form:
Kobus leche leche
this entity surface form:
Kobus leche
this entity surface form:
Kobus kob
this entity surface form:
Kobus vardonii
this entity surface form:
Kobus anselli