Dasyuridae
E651419
Dasyuridae is a family of carnivorous marsupials that includes quolls, dunnarts, and the Tasmanian devil, primarily native to Australia and New Guinea.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dasyuridae canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7260736 — 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: Dasyuridae Context triple: [Dasyuromorphia, containsFamily, Dasyuridae]
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A.
Dasyuromorphia
Dasyuromorphia is an order of carnivorous marsupials that includes quolls, dunnarts, and the Tasmanian devil, primarily native to Australia and New Guinea.
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B.
Potoroidae
Potoroidae is a family of small Australian marsupials, including potoroos, bettongs, and rat-kangaroos, known for their hopping locomotion and burrowing, nocturnal habits.
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C.
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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D.
Thylacomyidae
Thylacomyidae is a family of small, nocturnal marsupials known as bilbies, native to arid and semi-arid regions of Australia.
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E.
Potorous
Potorous is a genus of small, nocturnal marsupials known as potoroos, native to Australia and resembling miniature kangaroos that primarily feed on fungi and plant material.
- 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: Dasyuridae Target entity description: Dasyuridae is a family of carnivorous marsupials that includes quolls, dunnarts, and the Tasmanian devil, primarily native to Australia and New Guinea.
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A.
Dasyuromorphia
Dasyuromorphia is an order of carnivorous marsupials that includes quolls, dunnarts, and the Tasmanian devil, primarily native to Australia and New Guinea.
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B.
Potoroidae
Potoroidae is a family of small Australian marsupials, including potoroos, bettongs, and rat-kangaroos, known for their hopping locomotion and burrowing, nocturnal habits.
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C.
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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D.
Thylacomyidae
Thylacomyidae is a family of small, nocturnal marsupials known as bilbies, native to arid and semi-arid regions of Australia.
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E.
Potorous
Potorous is a genus of small, nocturnal marsupials known as potoroos, native to Australia and resembling miniature kangaroos that primarily feed on fungi and plant material.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
marsupial family
ⓘ
taxonomic family ⓘ |
| class | Mammalia ⓘ |
| commonName | dasyurids ⓘ |
| containsGenus |
Antechinus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dasycercus NERFINISHED ⓘ Dasykaluta NERFINISHED ⓘ Dasyuroides NERFINISHED ⓘ Dasyuroides byrnei (kowari) genus-level placement ⓘ Dasyurus NERFINISHED ⓘ Micromurexia NERFINISHED ⓘ Murexia NERFINISHED ⓘ Myoictis NERFINISHED ⓘ Neophascogale NERFINISHED ⓘ Ningaui NERFINISHED ⓘ Paramurexia NERFINISHED ⓘ Parantechinus NERFINISHED ⓘ Phascogale NERFINISHED ⓘ Phascolosorex NERFINISHED ⓘ Planigale NERFINISHED ⓘ Pseudantechinus NERFINISHED ⓘ Sarcophilus ⓘ Sminthopsis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedAs | family of carnivorous marsupials ⓘ |
| diet | carnivorous ⓘ |
| distributionRegion | Australasian realm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Cenozoic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
insectivorous and carnivorous diet
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pouch-bearing females ⓘ primarily nocturnal ⓘ small to medium body size ⓘ |
| higherClassification | Dasyuromorphia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includes |
Tasmanian devil
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
antechinus ⓘ dunnart ⓘ kaluta NERFINISHED ⓘ kowari ⓘ mulgaras ⓘ phascogale ⓘ planigale ⓘ quoll ⓘ |
| infraclass | Marsupialia ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| namedBy | John Edward Gray NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Australia
ⓘ
New Guinea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| order | Dasyuromorphia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproductiveMode | viviparous ⓘ |
| subclass | Theria ⓘ |
| superorder | Australidelphia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| taxonRank | family ⓘ |
| typeGenus | Dasyurus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Dasyuridae Description of subject: Dasyuridae is a family of carnivorous marsupials that includes quolls, dunnarts, and the Tasmanian devil, primarily native to Australia and New Guinea.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Tasmanian devil