Laurasiatheria
E43859
Laurasiatheria is a major clade of placental mammals that includes diverse groups such as hoofed mammals, carnivores, bats, and shrews, thought to have originated on the ancient supercontinent Laurasia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Laurasiatheria canonical | 15 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T343239 — 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: Laurasiatheria Context triple: [Artiodactyla, superorder, Laurasiatheria]
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A.
Eutheria
Eutheria is a major clade of mammals that includes all placental mammals and their extinct relatives, characterized by prolonged gestation and complex placental development.
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B.
Artiodactyla
Artiodactyla is a large order of even-toed hoofed mammals that includes animals such as deer, cattle, pigs, and camels.
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C.
Sciuromorpha
Sciuromorpha is a rodent suborder that primarily includes squirrels and their close relatives, characterized by specialized jaw and skull adaptations for gnawing.
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D.
Diprotodontia
Diprotodontia is a large order of marsupial mammals, including kangaroos, wallabies, koalas, and wombats, primarily native to Australia and nearby regions.
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E.
Carnivora
Carnivora is a diverse order of primarily meat-eating mammals that includes families such as bears, cats, dogs, weasels, and seals.
- 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: Laurasiatheria Target entity description: Laurasiatheria is a major clade of placental mammals that includes diverse groups such as hoofed mammals, carnivores, bats, and shrews, thought to have originated on the ancient supercontinent Laurasia.
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A.
Eutheria
Eutheria is a major clade of mammals that includes all placental mammals and their extinct relatives, characterized by prolonged gestation and complex placental development.
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B.
Artiodactyla
Artiodactyla is a large order of even-toed hoofed mammals that includes animals such as deer, cattle, pigs, and camels.
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C.
Sciuromorpha
Sciuromorpha is a rodent suborder that primarily includes squirrels and their close relatives, characterized by specialized jaw and skull adaptations for gnawing.
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D.
Diprotodontia
Diprotodontia is a large order of marsupial mammals, including kangaroos, wallabies, koalas, and wombats, primarily native to Australia and nearby regions.
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E.
Carnivora
Carnivora is a diverse order of primarily meat-eating mammals that includes families such as bears, cats, dogs, weasels, and seals.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
clade
ⓘ
mammal clade ⓘ placental mammal clade ⓘ |
| belongsToGroup | placental mammals ⓘ |
| class | Mammalia ⓘ |
| contains |
aerial mammals
ⓘ
aquatic mammals ⓘ terrestrial mammals ⓘ |
| distinguishedBy | molecular phylogenetic evidence ⓘ |
| etymology | named after the ancient supercontinent Laurasia ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
diverse ecological niches
ⓘ
wide range of body sizes ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Carnivora
ⓘ
Cetacea ⓘ Artiodactyla ⓘ
surface form:
Cetartiodactyla
Chiroptera ⓘ Eulipotyphla ⓘ Perissodactyla ⓘ Pholidota ⓘ |
| hypothesizedOrigin |
Eurasia
ⓘ
surface form:
Laurasia
|
| includesTaxon |
Artiodactyla
ⓘ
Carnivora ⓘ Cetacea ⓘ Artiodactyla ⓘ
surface form:
Cetartiodactyla
Chiroptera ⓘ Eulipotyphla ⓘ Perissodactyla ⓘ Pholidota ⓘ bats ⓘ bears ⓘ cats ⓘ cattle ⓘ deer ⓘ dogs ⓘ dolphins ⓘ hedgehogs ⓘ hippopotamuses ⓘ hoofed mammals ⓘ horses ⓘ moles ⓘ pangolins ⓘ pigs ⓘ porpoises ⓘ rhinoceroses ⓘ seals ⓘ shrews ⓘ whales ⓘ |
| infraclass | Eutheria ⓘ |
| isSubsetOf |
Boreoeutheria
ⓘ
Eutheria ⓘ Eutheria ⓘ
surface form:
Placentalia
|
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| partOf | Boreoeutheria ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproductiveMode | viviparous ⓘ |
| subclass | Theria ⓘ |
| taxonRank | superorder ⓘ |
| unrankedClade | Boreoeutheria ⓘ |
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: Laurasiatheria Description of subject: Laurasiatheria is a major clade of placental mammals that includes diverse groups such as hoofed mammals, carnivores, bats, and shrews, thought to have originated on the ancient supercontinent Laurasia.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.