Mona ground iguana
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The Mona ground iguana is a large, critically endangered rock iguana species native only to Mona Island in the Caribbean, known for its rugged habitat and conservation importance.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cyclura carinata | 1 |
| Mona ground iguana canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T436333 — 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: Mona ground iguana Context triple: [Mona Island, hasEndemicSpecies, Mona ground iguana]
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A.
Gila monster
The Gila monster is a large, slow-moving venomous lizard native to the arid regions of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.
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B.
Psammobates
Psammobates is a genus of small, terrestrial tortoises native to arid and semi-arid regions of southern Africa.
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C.
Testudo graeca
Testudo graeca, commonly known as the Greek tortoise, is a small to medium-sized terrestrial tortoise native to parts of southern Europe, North Africa, and Southwest Asia, often kept as a pet and recognized for its domed shell and herbivorous diet.
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D.
Stigmochelys
Stigmochelys is a genus of tortoises best known for the leopard tortoise, a large, high-domed species native to the savannas of eastern and southern Africa.
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E.
Mojave Desert tortoise
The Mojave Desert tortoise is a long-lived, burrowing land turtle native to the arid regions of the southwestern United States, known for its domed shell, herbivorous diet, and threatened conservation status.
- 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: Mona ground iguana Target entity description: The Mona ground iguana is a large, critically endangered rock iguana species native only to Mona Island in the Caribbean, known for its rugged habitat and conservation importance.
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A.
Gila monster
The Gila monster is a large, slow-moving venomous lizard native to the arid regions of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.
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B.
Psammobates
Psammobates is a genus of small, terrestrial tortoises native to arid and semi-arid regions of southern Africa.
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C.
Testudo graeca
Testudo graeca, commonly known as the Greek tortoise, is a small to medium-sized terrestrial tortoise native to parts of southern Europe, North Africa, and Southwest Asia, often kept as a pet and recognized for its domed shell and herbivorous diet.
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D.
Stigmochelys
Stigmochelys is a genus of tortoises best known for the leopard tortoise, a large, high-domed species native to the savannas of eastern and southern Africa.
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E.
Mojave Desert tortoise
The Mojave Desert tortoise is a long-lived, burrowing land turtle native to the arid regions of the southwestern United States, known for its domed shell, herbivorous diet, and threatened conservation status.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
critically endangered species
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reptile ⓘ rock iguana ⓘ species of lizard ⓘ vertebrate ⓘ |
| bodySize | large ⓘ |
| class | Reptilia ⓘ |
| conservationAction |
control of invasive species
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habitat protection ⓘ population monitoring ⓘ |
| conservationStatus | Critically Endangered ⓘ |
| diet |
flowers
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fruits ⓘ herbivorous ⓘ leaves ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole | seed disperser ⓘ |
| endemicTo | Mona Island ⓘ |
| family | Iguanidae ⓘ |
| foundInCountry | Puerto Rico ⓘ |
| genus | Cyclura ⓘ |
| habitat |
coastal scrub
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dry forest ⓘ rocky terrain ⓘ |
| hasCommonName | Mona Island ground iguana ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| livesOn | island ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Caribbean Sea
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Mona Island ⓘ |
| notableFor |
conservation importance
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restricted range ⓘ |
| order | Squamata ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| rangeType | single-island endemic ⓘ |
| reproduction | oviparous ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| threat |
habitat degradation
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human disturbance ⓘ introduced predators ⓘ |
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: Mona ground iguana Description of subject: The Mona ground iguana is a large, critically endangered rock iguana species native only to Mona Island in the Caribbean, known for its rugged habitat and conservation importance.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Cyclura carinata