Dactylonax
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Dactylonax is a genus of marsupials in the family Petauridae, which includes gliding possums and related arboreal species found in Australasia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dactylonax canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5632740 — 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: Dactylonax Context triple: [Petauridae, contains, Dactylonax]
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A.
Hesperethusa
Hesperethusa is a genus of flowering plants in the citrus family Rutaceae, known for species such as Hesperethusa crenulata (also called Limonia crenulata) that are native to South and Southeast Asia.
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B.
Oreortyx
Oreortyx is a small genus of New World quails best known for the mountain quail, a ground-dwelling game bird native to western North America.
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C.
Hypsignathus
Hypsignathus is a genus of African megabats best known for the hammer-headed bat, a large fruit bat notable for the male’s distinctive, elongated head and loud vocalizations.
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D.
Alphitonia
Alphitonia is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs, commonly known as ash or soap trees, native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Pacific and Asia.
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E.
Oxydracae
The Oxydracae were an ancient Indian people known from Greek accounts as one of the tribes encountered and resisted by Alexander the Great during his campaign in the Indian subcontinent.
- 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: Dactylonax Target entity description: Dactylonax is a genus of marsupials in the family Petauridae, which includes gliding possums and related arboreal species found in Australasia.
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A.
Hesperethusa
Hesperethusa is a genus of flowering plants in the citrus family Rutaceae, known for species such as Hesperethusa crenulata (also called Limonia crenulata) that are native to South and Southeast Asia.
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B.
Oreortyx
Oreortyx is a small genus of New World quails best known for the mountain quail, a ground-dwelling game bird native to western North America.
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C.
Hypsignathus
Hypsignathus is a genus of African megabats best known for the hammer-headed bat, a large fruit bat notable for the male’s distinctive, elongated head and loud vocalizations.
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D.
Alphitonia
Alphitonia is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs, commonly known as ash or soap trees, native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Pacific and Asia.
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E.
Oxydracae
The Oxydracae were an ancient Indian people known from Greek accounts as one of the tribes encountered and resisted by Alexander the Great during his campaign in the Indian subcontinent.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
genus
ⓘ
marsupial genus ⓘ |
| class | Mammalia ⓘ |
| distributionRegion |
Australasia
ⓘ
linked to:
Oceania
|
| family | Petauridae ⓘ |
| habitat |
arboreal habitat
ⓘ
forest ⓘ |
| hasCommonName | Dactylonax genus ⓘ |
| infraclass | Marsupialia ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| lifeForm |
mammal
ⓘ
marsupial ⓘ vertebrate ⓘ |
| memberOf | Petauridae ⓘ |
| namedBy | Oldfield Thomas ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Australasia
ⓘ
linked to:
Oceania
New Guinea ⓘ |
| order | Diprotodontia ⓘ |
| parentTaxon | Petauridae ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| relatedTo | gliding possums ⓘ |
| suborder | Phalangeriformes ⓘ |
| superfamily | Petauroidea ⓘ |
| taxonNameAuthorship | Oldfield Thomas ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
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: Dactylonax Description of subject: Dactylonax is a genus of marsupials in the family Petauridae, which includes gliding possums and related arboreal species found in Australasia.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.