Lepidosauria
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Lepidosauria is a major reptile clade that includes lizards, snakes, and tuataras, characterized by overlapping scales and periodic skin shedding.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lepidosauria canonical | 10 |
| Lepidosauromorpha | 2 |
| Sauria | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5656845 — 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: Lepidosauria Context triple: [Squamata, isPartOf, Lepidosauria]
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A.
Squamata
Squamata is the large order of reptiles that includes all lizards, snakes, and amphisbaenians, characterized by their scaled skin and movable quadrate bones.
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B.
Reptilia
Reptilia is a major vertebrate class comprising reptiles such as turtles, lizards, snakes, and crocodiles, typically characterized by scaly skin and laying shelled eggs on land.
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C.
Rhynchocephalia
Rhynchocephalia is an ancient order of reptiles, now represented only by the tuatara, that diverged early from other reptilian lineages and retains many primitive characteristics.
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D.
Diapsida
Diapsida is a major clade of reptiles characterized by two temporal skull openings, encompassing groups such as lizards, snakes, crocodilians, and birds.
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E.
Crocodyliformes
Crocodyliformes is a diverse group of archosaurian reptiles that includes modern crocodiles, alligators, and their extinct relatives, known from the Mesozoic and Cenozoic fossil record.
- 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: Lepidosauria Target entity description: Lepidosauria is a major reptile clade that includes lizards, snakes, and tuataras, characterized by overlapping scales and periodic skin shedding.
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A.
Squamata
Squamata is the large order of reptiles that includes all lizards, snakes, and amphisbaenians, characterized by their scaled skin and movable quadrate bones.
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B.
Reptilia
Reptilia is a major vertebrate class comprising reptiles such as turtles, lizards, snakes, and crocodiles, typically characterized by scaly skin and laying shelled eggs on land.
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C.
Rhynchocephalia
Rhynchocephalia is an ancient order of reptiles, now represented only by the tuatara, that diverged early from other reptilian lineages and retains many primitive characteristics.
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D.
Diapsida
Diapsida is a major clade of reptiles characterized by two temporal skull openings, encompassing groups such as lizards, snakes, crocodilians, and birds.
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E.
Crocodylomorpha
Crocodylomorpha is a diverse clade of archosaurian reptiles that includes modern crocodiles and their extinct relatives, ranging from small terrestrial forms to large semi-aquatic predators.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
clade
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ vertebrate group ⓘ |
| bodyCovering | scales ⓘ |
| characterizedBy |
determinant growth of long bones
ⓘ
fracture planes in tail vertebrae ⓘ overlapping scales ⓘ periodic skin shedding ⓘ transverse cloacal slit ⓘ |
| class | Reptilia ⓘ |
| contains |
Gekkota
ⓘ
Iguania ⓘ Scincomorpha ⓘ Serpentes ⓘ Sphenodontia ⓘ
linked to:
Rhynchocephalia
|
| dominantSmallReptilesIn | many modern terrestrial ecosystems ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Late Permian ⓘ |
| foundOn | all continents except Antarctica (for many groups) ⓘ |
| hasExtantOrder |
Rhynchocephalia
ⓘ
Squamata ⓘ |
| hasLivingRepresentatives | yes ⓘ |
| hasScientificNameAuthorship |
Haeckel
ⓘ
linked to:
Ernst Haeckel
|
| higherTaxonOf |
amphisbaenian
ⓘ
lizard ⓘ snake ⓘ tuatara ⓘ |
| includes |
Rhynchocephalia
ⓘ
Squamata ⓘ |
| includesCommonNameGroup |
amphisbaenians
ⓘ
lizards ⓘ snakes ⓘ tuataras ⓘ |
| includesFossilGroups | numerous extinct squamate lineages ⓘ |
| jawType | diapsid skull ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| moreCommonFrom | Mesozoic ⓘ |
| partOf | Sauropsida ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproduction |
mostly oviparous
ⓘ
some viviparous lineages ⓘ |
| scaleType | keratinized epidermal scales ⓘ |
| sisterGroupOf | Archosauria ⓘ |
| skinSheddingMode | ecdysis ⓘ |
| subclass | Lepidosauromorpha ⓘ |
| subphylum | Vertebrata ⓘ |
| thermoregulation | ectothermic ⓘ |
| usedIn |
herpetology
ⓘ
vertebrate paleontology ⓘ |
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: Lepidosauria Description of subject: Lepidosauria is a major reptile clade that includes lizards, snakes, and tuataras, characterized by overlapping scales and periodic skin shedding.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Lepidosauria
linked to: Lepidosauria
linked to: Lepidosauria