Tasmanian devil
E66653
The Tasmanian devil is a carnivorous marsupial native to Tasmania, known for its powerful jaws, loud screeches, and status as the world’s largest surviving marsupial carnivore.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tasmanian devil canonical | 13 |
| Tasmanian Devil | 7 |
| Sarcophilus harrisii | 5 |
| Sarcophilus | 2 |
| Tasmanian devils | 2 |
| The Tasmanian Devil | 2 |
| Tasmanian Devil cartoons | 1 |
| Tassie devil | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T533702 — 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: Tasmanian devil Context triple: [Tasmania, knownFor, Tasmanian devil]
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A.
Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat
The Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat is a burrowing marsupial native to arid regions of southern Australia, known for its compact build, silky fur, and distinctive hairy snout.
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B.
red kangaroo
The red kangaroo is the largest marsupial in the world, a powerful, long-legged herbivore native to Australia’s arid and semi-arid regions.
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C.
Hydropotes inermis
Hydropotes inermis, commonly known as the water deer, is a small East Asian deer species notable for its lack of antlers and prominent tusk-like canine teeth.
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D.
Gila monster
The Gila monster is a large, slow-moving venomous lizard native to the arid regions of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.
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E.
Komodo
Komodo is an Indonesian island best known as the natural habitat of the Komodo dragon and a key part of Komodo National Park.
- 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: Tasmanian devil Target entity description: The Tasmanian devil is a carnivorous marsupial native to Tasmania, known for its powerful jaws, loud screeches, and status as the world’s largest surviving marsupial carnivore.
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A.
Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat
The Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat is a burrowing marsupial native to arid regions of southern Australia, known for its compact build, silky fur, and distinctive hairy snout.
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B.
red kangaroo
The red kangaroo is the largest marsupial in the world, a powerful, long-legged herbivore native to Australia’s arid and semi-arid regions.
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C.
Hydropotes inermis
Hydropotes inermis, commonly known as the water deer, is a small East Asian deer species notable for its lack of antlers and prominent tusk-like canine teeth.
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D.
Gila monster
The Gila monster is a large, slow-moving venomous lizard native to the arid regions of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.
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E.
Komodo
Komodo is an Indonesian island best known as the natural habitat of the Komodo dragon and a key part of Komodo National Park.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (59)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
carnivore
ⓘ
marsupial ⓘ species ⓘ |
| activityPattern |
crepuscular
ⓘ
nocturnal ⓘ |
| averageLifespanInWild | about 5 to 6 years ⓘ |
| averageLitterSize | 2 to 3 young ⓘ |
| averageWeightFemale | about 6 kg ⓘ |
| averageWeightMale | about 8 kg ⓘ |
| bodyLength | about 52 to 80 cm ⓘ |
| class | Mammalia ⓘ |
| commonName | Tasmanian devil ⓘ |
| conservationStatus | Endangered ⓘ |
| conservationStatusSystem |
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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surface form:
IUCN Red List
|
| currentWildRange | island of Tasmania ⓘ |
| describedInYear | 1807 ⓘ |
| diet |
carnivorous
ⓘ
scavenger ⓘ |
| distinctiveMarking |
white chest patch
ⓘ
white rump patches ⓘ |
| endemicTo | Tasmania ⓘ |
| family |
Dasyuromorphia
ⓘ
surface form:
Dasyuridae
|
| featuredIn | Looney Tunes character "Taz" is based on it ⓘ |
| furColor | black ⓘ |
| genus |
Tasmanian devil
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Sarcophilus
|
| gestationPeriod | about 21 days ⓘ |
| habitat |
coastal scrub
ⓘ
forests ⓘ woodlands ⓘ |
| hasBinomialAuthority | George Harris ⓘ |
| hasPouch | true ⓘ |
| historicalRange | mainland Australia ⓘ |
| infraclass | Marsupialia ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| largestSurvivingMarsupialCarnivore | true ⓘ |
| locomotion | quadrupedal ⓘ |
| maximumLitterSize | up to 4 young ⓘ |
| nativeTo | Tasmania ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
loud screeches
ⓘ
powerful jaws ⓘ strong bite force relative to body size ⓘ |
| order | Dasyuromorphia ⓘ |
| parentTaxon |
Tasmanian devil
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Sarcophilus
|
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| primarySense | smell ⓘ |
| reproduction | marsupial ⓘ |
| sexualMaturityAge | about 2 years ⓘ |
| socialBehavior |
feeds communally on carcasses
ⓘ
mostly solitary ⓘ |
| tailLength | about 23 to 30 cm ⓘ |
| taxonName |
Tasmanian devil
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Sarcophilus harrisii
|
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| threat |
devil facial tumour disease
ⓘ
habitat loss ⓘ roadkill ⓘ |
| vocalization |
growls
ⓘ
screeches ⓘ snarls ⓘ |
| weaningAge | about 5 to 6 months ⓘ |
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: Tasmanian devil Description of subject: The Tasmanian devil is a carnivorous marsupial native to Tasmania, known for its powerful jaws, loud screeches, and status as the world’s largest surviving marsupial carnivore.
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tasmanian Devil
this entity surface form:
Tasmanian Devil
this entity surface form:
Sarcophilus
this entity surface form:
Sarcophilus harrisii
this entity surface form:
Sarcophilus
this entity surface form:
Tasmanian devils
this entity surface form:
Sarcophilus harrisii
this entity surface form:
Tasmanian Devil
this entity surface form:
Tasmanian Devil
this entity surface form:
The Tasmanian Devil
this entity surface form:
The Tasmanian Devil
this entity surface form:
Tasmanian Devil
this entity surface form:
Tasmanian Devil
this entity surface form:
Tasmanian Devil cartoons
this entity surface form:
Tasmanian devils
this entity surface form:
Tasmanian Devil
this entity surface form:
Sarcophilus harrisii
subject surface form:
Tasmanian devil
this entity surface form:
Sarcophilus harrisii
subject surface form:
Sarcophilus harrisii
subject surface form:
Tasmanian devil
this entity surface form:
Sarcophilus harrisii
subject surface form:
Tasmanian devil
this entity surface form:
Tassie devil