Caprinae
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Caprinae is a subfamily of hoofed mammals that includes goats, sheep, and related species adapted to rugged, often mountainous environments.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Caprinae canonical | 25 |
| Caprinae (subfamily) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7661477 — 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: Caprinae Context triple: [Nilgiri tahr, subfamily, Caprinae]
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A.
Antilocapridae
Antilocapridae is a family of North American hoofed mammals best known for the pronghorn, a swift, antelope-like species with distinctive forked horns.
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B.
Antilopinae
Antilopinae is a subfamily of bovids that includes many of the world’s small to medium-sized, fast-running antelopes adapted to open and arid habitats.
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C.
Tragulidae
Tragulidae is a family of small, primitive, deer-like mammals known as chevrotains or mouse deer, found in parts of Africa and Asia.
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D.
Cervidae
Cervidae is the biological family of hoofed ruminant mammals commonly known as deer, which includes species such as elk, moose, reindeer, and mule deer.
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E.
Capricornis
Capricornis is a genus of goat-antelopes known as serows, medium-sized, shaggy-coated bovids native to mountainous forests of Asia.
- 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: Caprinae Target entity description: Caprinae is a subfamily of hoofed mammals that includes goats, sheep, and related species adapted to rugged, often mountainous environments.
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A.
Antilocapridae
Antilocapridae is a family of North American hoofed mammals best known for the pronghorn, a swift, antelope-like species with distinctive forked horns.
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B.
Antilopinae
Antilopinae is a subfamily of bovids that includes many of the world’s small to medium-sized, fast-running antelopes adapted to open and arid habitats.
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C.
Tragulidae
Tragulidae is a family of small, primitive, deer-like mammals known as chevrotains or mouse deer, found in parts of Africa and Asia.
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D.
Cervidae
Cervidae is the biological family of hoofed ruminant mammals commonly known as deer, which includes species such as elk, moose, reindeer, and mule deer.
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E.
Capricornis
Capricornis is a genus of goat-antelopes known as serows, medium-sized, shaggy-coated bovids native to mountainous forests of Asia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (71)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
subfamily
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Bovidae ⓘ |
| class | Mammalia ⓘ |
| commonName | goat-antelopes ⓘ |
| describedBy | John Edward Gray ⓘ |
| diet |
forbs
ⓘ
grasses ⓘ leaves ⓘ shrubs ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
adapted to rugged terrain
ⓘ
cloven hooves ⓘ complex stomach for foregut fermentation ⓘ even-toed ungulate ⓘ herbivorous diet ⓘ horns often permanently present ⓘ often adapted to mountainous environments ⓘ ruminant ⓘ usually horned in both sexes ⓘ |
| hasEnglishName | Caprines ⓘ |
| hasUse |
domesticated for hair
ⓘ
domesticated for meat ⓘ domesticated for milk ⓘ domesticated for wool ⓘ used as pack animals ⓘ |
| includesTaxon |
Ammotragus
ⓘ
Ammotragus lervia ⓘ
linked to:
Ammotragus
Arabitragus ⓘ Budorcas ⓘ Budorcas taxicolor ⓘ
linked to:
Budorcas
Capra ⓘ Capra aegagrus ⓘ Capra aegagrus hircus ⓘ Capra ibex ⓘ
linked to:
Alpine ibex
Capra pyrenaica ⓘ Capricornis ⓘ Capricornis sumatraensis ⓘ Hemitragus ⓘ Hemitragus jemlahicus ⓘ
linked to:
Hemitragus
Myotragus ⓘ Naemorhedus ⓘ Naemorhedus goral ⓘ
linked to:
Himalayan goral
Nemorhaedus ⓘ
linked to:
Naemorhedus
Oreamnos ⓘ Oreamnos americanus ⓘ
linked to:
Oreamnos
Ovibos ⓘ Ovibos moschatus ⓘ
linked to:
Ovibos
Ovis ⓘ Ovis aries ⓘ
linked to:
Ovis
Ovis orientalis ⓘ Pantholops ⓘ
linked to:
Tibetan antelope
Pantholops hodgsonii ⓘ
linked to:
Tibetan antelope
Pseudois ⓘ Pseudois nayaur ⓘ
linked to:
Pseudois
Rupicapra ⓘ Rupicapra pyrenaica ⓘ
linked to:
Rupicapra
Rupicapra rupicapra ⓘ
linked to:
Rupicapra
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| infraorder | Pecora ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| notableDomesticatedMember |
domestic goat
ⓘ
domestic sheep ⓘ |
| order | Artiodactyla ⓘ |
| parentTaxon | Bovidae ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproductiveStrategy | viviparous ⓘ |
| suborder | Ruminantia ⓘ |
| taxonRank | subfamily ⓘ |
| typicalHabitat |
alpine meadows
ⓘ
mountainous regions ⓘ rocky cliffs ⓘ steep grasslands ⓘ |
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: Caprinae Description of subject: Caprinae is a subfamily of hoofed mammals that includes goats, sheep, and related species adapted to rugged, often mountainous environments.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Caprinae