rāpoka
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Rāpoka is the Māori name for the New Zealand sea lion, a rare and protected pinniped species found mainly around New Zealand’s subantarctic islands and southern coasts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| rāpoka canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7152543 — 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: rāpoka Context triple: [New Zealand sea lion, nativeName, rāpoka]
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A.
Rampi’
Rampi’ is an Austronesian language spoken by the Rampi people in the mountainous regions of South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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B.
Ratapoil
Ratapoil is a satirical character created by French artist Honoré Daumier, embodying the cynical, manipulative political agent of mid-19th-century France.
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C.
Po:rag
Po:rag is a traditional festival of the Miri (Mising) community of Assam, India, celebrated with communal dancing, music, and rituals to honor agricultural cycles and social unity.
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D.
Raka
Raka is a renowned Afrikaans narrative poem by N. P. van Wyk Louw that explores themes of civilization, barbarism, and moral conflict through an allegorical tale.
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E.
Pamankada
Pamankada is a residential and commercial neighborhood within the city of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
- 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: rāpoka Target entity description: Rāpoka is the Māori name for the New Zealand sea lion, a rare and protected pinniped species found mainly around New Zealand’s subantarctic islands and southern coasts.
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A.
Rampi’
Rampi’ is an Austronesian language spoken by the Rampi people in the mountainous regions of South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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B.
Ratapoil
Ratapoil is a satirical character created by French artist Honoré Daumier, embodying the cynical, manipulative political agent of mid-19th-century France.
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C.
Po:rag
Po:rag is a traditional festival of the Miri (Mising) community of Assam, India, celebrated with communal dancing, music, and rituals to honor agricultural cycles and social unity.
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D.
Raka
Raka is a renowned Afrikaans narrative poem by N. P. van Wyk Louw that explores themes of civilization, barbarism, and moral conflict through an allegorical tale.
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E.
Pamankada
Pamankada is a residential and commercial neighborhood within the city of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
New Zealand sea lion
ⓘ
pinniped ⓘ |
| adultFemaleColoration | lighter grey-brown ⓘ |
| adultMaleColoration | dark brown to black ⓘ |
| breedsMainlyOn |
Auckland Islands
ⓘ
linked to:
AucklandIslands
|
| breedsOn |
Campbell Island
ⓘ
some mainland New Zealand beaches ⓘ |
| class | Mammalia ⓘ |
| conservationStatus |
nationally critical (New Zealand classification)
ⓘ
threatened ⓘ |
| dietIncludes |
benthic invertebrates
ⓘ
fish ⓘ octopus ⓘ squid ⓘ |
| family | Otariidae ⓘ |
| hasCommonName | New Zealand sea lion ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificanceFor | Māori people ⓘ |
| hasHabitat |
rocky shorelines
ⓘ
sandy beaches ⓘ subantarctic waters ⓘ |
| hasNameInLanguage | rāpoka (Māori) ⓘ |
| hasReproductiveStrategy | colonial breeder ⓘ |
| hasScientificName |
Phocarctos hookeri
ⓘ
linked to:
Phocarctos
|
| hasTaxonRank | species ⓘ |
| isConsidered | one of the rarest sea lions in the world ⓘ |
| isEndemicTo | New Zealand ⓘ |
| isFoundAlongCoastOf |
Otago coast
ⓘ
Southland coast ⓘ southern New Zealand ⓘ |
| isFoundIn |
Auckland Islands
ⓘ
linked to:
AucklandIslands
Campbell Island ⓘ New Zealand subantarctic islands ⓘ |
| isLegallyProtected | true ⓘ |
| isManagedBy |
New Zealand Department of Conservation
ⓘ
linked to:
Department of Conservation (New Zealand)
|
| isProtectedIn | New Zealand ⓘ |
| isSexuallyDimorphic | true ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| languageOfName |
Māori
ⓘ
linked to:
Te Reo Māori
|
| order | Carnivora ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| threatenedBy |
disease outbreaks
ⓘ
fisheries bycatch ⓘ habitat disturbance ⓘ human disturbance at breeding sites ⓘ |
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: rāpoka Description of subject: Rāpoka is the Māori name for the New Zealand sea lion, a rare and protected pinniped species found mainly around New Zealand’s subantarctic islands and southern coasts.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.