Didelphimorphia
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Didelphimorphia is the order of marsupial mammals that includes opossums, primarily native to the Americas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Didelphimorphia canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5568758 — 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: Didelphimorphia Context triple: [Mammalia, includesOrder, Didelphimorphia]
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A.
Myomorpha
Myomorpha is a major suborder of rodents that includes mice, rats, gerbils, hamsters, and related small, typically omnivorous mammals characterized by specialized jaw and tooth structures.
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B.
Peramelemorphia
Peramelemorphia is an order of Australasian marsupials that includes bandicoots and bilbies, characterized by their pointed snouts, omnivorous diet, and burrowing habits.
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C.
Eulipotyphla
Eulipotyphla is an order of small insectivorous mammals that includes shrews, moles, hedgehogs, and related species.
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D.
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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E.
Marsupialia
Marsupialia is a group of mammals characterized by giving birth to relatively undeveloped young that typically continue developing in a pouch.
- 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: Didelphimorphia Target entity description: Didelphimorphia is the order of marsupial mammals that includes opossums, primarily native to the Americas.
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A.
Myomorpha
Myomorpha is a major suborder of rodents that includes mice, rats, gerbils, hamsters, and related small, typically omnivorous mammals characterized by specialized jaw and tooth structures.
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B.
Peramelemorphia
Peramelemorphia is an order of Australasian marsupials that includes bandicoots and bilbies, characterized by their pointed snouts, omnivorous diet, and burrowing habits.
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C.
Eulipotyphla
Eulipotyphla is an order of small insectivorous mammals that includes shrews, moles, hedgehogs, and related species.
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D.
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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E.
Marsupialia
Marsupialia is a group of mammals characterized by giving birth to relatively undeveloped young that typically continue developing in a pouch.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
order of mammals
ⓘ
taxonomic order ⓘ |
| activityPattern | nocturnal ⓘ |
| class | Mammalia ⓘ |
| commonName | opossums ⓘ |
| conservationStatus | many species of least concern ⓘ |
| diet | omnivorous ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary (approximate)
ⓘ
Paleocene NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundIn |
Nearctic region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Neotropics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLivingSpecies | true ⓘ |
| hasPouch | true ⓘ |
| includesCommonName | opossums ⓘ |
| includesFamily | Didelphidae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includesGenus |
Caluromys
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Caluromysiops NERFINISHED ⓘ Chacodelphys NERFINISHED ⓘ Chironectes NERFINISHED ⓘ Cryptonanus NERFINISHED ⓘ Didelphis ⓘ Glironia NERFINISHED ⓘ Gracilinanus NERFINISHED ⓘ Hyladelphys NERFINISHED ⓘ Lestodelphys NERFINISHED ⓘ Lutreolina NERFINISHED ⓘ Marmosa NERFINISHED ⓘ Marmosops NERFINISHED ⓘ Metachirus NERFINISHED ⓘ Micoureus NERFINISHED ⓘ Monodelphis NERFINISHED ⓘ Philander ⓘ Thylamys NERFINISHED ⓘ Tlacuatzin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| infraclass | Marsupialia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| locomotion |
arboreal
ⓘ
terrestrial ⓘ |
| namedBy | John Edward Gray NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Americas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Central America ⓘ North America ⓘ South America ⓘ |
| notableSpecies |
Virginia opossum
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
water opossum ⓘ |
| numberOfFamilies | 1 ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproduction | marsupial ⓘ |
| subclass | Theria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| superorder | Ameridelphia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tailType | prehensile in many species ⓘ |
| taxonRank | order ⓘ |
| typeGenus | Didelphis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearDescribed | 1821 ⓘ |
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: Didelphimorphia Description of subject: Didelphimorphia is the order of marsupial mammals that includes opossums, primarily native to the Americas.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.