Mungotictis decemlineata
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Mungotictis decemlineata is a small, slender, mongoose-like carnivoran endemic to Madagascar, commonly known as the narrow-striped mongoose.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mungotictis decemlineata canonical | 3 |
| Galidia decemlineata | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7414480 — 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: Mungotictis decemlineata Context triple: [Eupleridae, containsTaxon, Mungotictis decemlineata]
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A.
Philortyx fasciatus
Philortyx fasciatus, commonly known as the banded quail, is a small ground-dwelling bird native to Mexico and the type species of the genus Philortyx.
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B.
Mischocyttarus
Mischocyttarus is a large genus of social paper wasps found primarily in the Neotropical region, known for their diverse nesting behaviors and relatively simple colony organization.
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C.
Oxydactylus
Oxydactylus is an extinct genus of early camelid-like mammals that lived in North America during the Oligocene epoch.
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D.
Eudocimus
Eudocimus is a genus of wading birds in the ibis family, best known for including the brightly colored scarlet ibis and related species.
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E.
Xenicus longipes
Xenicus longipes is an extinct New Zealand wren species once endemic to the South Island and known for its small size and ground-dwelling habits.
- 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: Mungotictis decemlineata Target entity description: Mungotictis decemlineata is a small, slender, mongoose-like carnivoran endemic to Madagascar, commonly known as the narrow-striped mongoose.
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A.
Philortyx fasciatus
Philortyx fasciatus, commonly known as the banded quail, is a small ground-dwelling bird native to Mexico and the type species of the genus Philortyx.
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B.
Mischocyttarus
Mischocyttarus is a large genus of social paper wasps found primarily in the Neotropical region, known for their diverse nesting behaviors and relatively simple colony organization.
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C.
Oxydactylus
Oxydactylus is an extinct genus of early camelid-like mammals that lived in North America during the Oligocene epoch.
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D.
Eudocimus
Eudocimus is a genus of wading birds in the ibis family, best known for including the brightly colored scarlet ibis and related species.
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E.
Xenicus longipes
Xenicus longipes is an extinct New Zealand wren species once endemic to the South Island and known for its small size and ground-dwelling habits.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Mungotictis decemlineata Description of subject: Mungotictis decemlineata is a small, slender, mongoose-like carnivoran endemic to Madagascar, commonly known as the narrow-striped mongoose.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mungotictis decemlineata