Salanoia concolor
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Salanoia concolor is a small, mongoose-like carnivorous mammal endemic to Madagascar, belonging to the Malagasy carnivore family Eupleridae.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Salanoia concolor canonical | 1 |
| Salanoia durrelli | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7414481 — 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: Salanoia concolor Context triple: [Eupleridae, containsTaxon, Salanoia concolor]
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A.
Osphranter rufus
Osphranter rufus is the red kangaroo, the largest living marsupial native to Australia’s arid and semi-arid regions.
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B.
Colinus cristatus
Colinus cristatus, commonly known as the crested bobwhite, is a small ground-dwelling New World quail species native to Central and South America, recognized by its distinctive head crest and mottled plumage.
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C.
Leipoa ocellata
Leipoa ocellata, commonly known as the malleefowl, is a ground-dwelling Australian bird famous for incubating its eggs in large mounds of decomposing vegetation.
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D.
Pollachius virens
Pollachius virens is a commercially important North Atlantic fish species, commonly known as saithe or coalfish, valued for food and sport fishing.
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E.
Liasis olivaceus
Liasis olivaceus, commonly known as the olive python, is a large non-venomous constrictor native to northern 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: Salanoia concolor Target entity description: Salanoia concolor is a small, mongoose-like carnivorous mammal endemic to Madagascar, belonging to the Malagasy carnivore family Eupleridae.
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A.
Osphranter rufus
Osphranter rufus is the red kangaroo, the largest living marsupial native to Australia’s arid and semi-arid regions.
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B.
Colinus cristatus
Colinus cristatus, commonly known as the crested bobwhite, is a small ground-dwelling New World quail species native to Central and South America, recognized by its distinctive head crest and mottled plumage.
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C.
Leipoa ocellata
Leipoa ocellata, commonly known as the malleefowl, is a ground-dwelling Australian bird famous for incubating its eggs in large mounds of decomposing vegetation.
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D.
Pollachius virens
Pollachius virens is a commercially important North Atlantic fish species, commonly known as saithe or coalfish, valued for food and sport fishing.
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E.
Liasis olivaceus
Liasis olivaceus, commonly known as the olive python, is a large non-venomous constrictor native to northern Australia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Malagasy carnivore
ⓘ
carnivoran ⓘ species of mammal ⓘ |
| activityPattern | likely nocturnal or crepuscular ⓘ |
| belongsToFaunaOf | Madagascar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| binomialName | Salanoia concolor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bodyColor | brownish ⓘ |
| class | Mammalia ⓘ |
| commonName |
brown-tailed mongoose
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
brown-tailed vontsira ⓘ |
| conservationStatusSystem | IUCN Red List NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedBy | Henri Milne-Edwards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedIn | 19th century ⓘ |
| diet |
carnivorous
ⓘ
invertebrates ⓘ small vertebrates ⓘ |
| endemicTo | Madagascar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| family | Eupleridae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genus | Salanoia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geographicLocation | Madagascar lowlands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| habitat |
freshwater swamp forest
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marshes ⓘ wetlands ⓘ |
| hasFamilyMember | Salanoia durrelli NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isSympatricWith | other Malagasy carnivores ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| locomotion | terrestrial ⓘ |
| morphology |
mongoose-like appearance
ⓘ
small body size ⓘ |
| nativeRange | eastern Madagascar ⓘ |
| order | Carnivora ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproduction | viviparous ⓘ |
| tailColor | brown ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
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: Salanoia concolor Description of subject: Salanoia concolor is a small, mongoose-like carnivorous mammal endemic to Madagascar, belonging to the Malagasy carnivore family Eupleridae.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Salanoia durrelli