Thylacinidae
E651489
Thylacinidae is an extinct family of carnivorous marsupials best known for the thylacine or Tasmanian tiger, once native to Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thylacinidae canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7260738 — 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: Thylacinidae Context triple: [Dasyuromorphia, containsFamily, Thylacinidae]
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A.
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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B.
Thylacoleonidae
Thylacoleonidae is an extinct family of Australian marsupial predators, commonly known as "marsupial lions," characterized by powerful jaws and specialized shearing teeth.
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C.
Diprotodontidae
Diprotodontidae is an extinct family of giant herbivorous Australian marsupials that included some of the largest known wombat-like mammals, such as Diprotodon.
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D.
Phascolarctidae
Phascolarctidae is a family of marsupials best known for including the koala, an arboreal herbivore native to Australia.
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E.
Vombatidae
Vombatidae is the biological family of burrowing, herbivorous marsupials commonly known as wombats, native to Australia.
- 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: Thylacinidae Target entity description: Thylacinidae is an extinct family of carnivorous marsupials best known for the thylacine or Tasmanian tiger, once native to Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea.
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A.
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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B.
Thylacoleonidae
Thylacoleonidae is an extinct family of Australian marsupial predators, commonly known as "marsupial lions," characterized by powerful jaws and specialized shearing teeth.
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C.
Diprotodontidae
Diprotodontidae is an extinct family of giant herbivorous Australian marsupials that included some of the largest known wombat-like mammals, such as Diprotodon.
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D.
Phascolarctidae
Phascolarctidae is a family of marsupials best known for including the koala, an arboreal herbivore native to Australia.
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E.
Vombatidae
Vombatidae is the biological family of burrowing, herbivorous marsupials commonly known as wombats, native to Australia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
extinct family of marsupials
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taxon ⓘ |
| bestKnownSpecies | Thylacinus cynocephalus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| class | Mammalia ⓘ |
| commonName | thylacine family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conservationStatus | extinct family ⓘ |
| diet | carnivorous ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole | apex predator in parts of its range ⓘ |
| extinctionCause |
habitat loss
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human activities ⓘ persecution as pest ⓘ |
| extinctionStatus | extinct ⓘ |
| fossilRecordRegion |
Australia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New Guinea NERFINISHED ⓘ Tasmania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
convergent evolution with canids
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dog-like body form ⓘ pouched young ⓘ striped lower back in some species ⓘ |
| hasMemberGenus | Thylacinus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMemberSpecies | Thylacinus cynocephalus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| higherClassification | Dasyuromorphia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| infraclass | Marsupialia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| lifestyle | predatory ⓘ |
| namedAfter | genus Thylacinus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Australia
ⓘ
New Guinea NERFINISHED ⓘ Tasmania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableMember |
Tasmanian tiger
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tasmanian wolf NERFINISHED ⓘ thylacine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| order | Dasyuromorphia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| recognizedBy |
modern mammalogy
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paleontology ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Dasyuridae
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Myrmecobiidae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reproduction | marsupial ⓘ |
| subclass | Theria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| superorder | Australidelphia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| taxonRank | family ⓘ |
| temporalRange |
Cenozoic
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Late Oligocene to Holocene ⓘ |
| typeGenus | Thylacinus 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: Thylacinidae Description of subject: Thylacinidae is an extinct family of carnivorous marsupials best known for the thylacine or Tasmanian tiger, once native to Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.