Steller sea lion
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The Steller sea lion is a large, cold-water marine mammal of the North Pacific known for its massive size, thick neck, and loud, roaring vocalizations.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Steller sea lion canonical | 24 |
| Steller sea lions | 7 |
| Steller's sea lion | 2 |
| northern sea lion | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T573642 — 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: Steller sea lion Context triple: [Bering Sea, inhabitedBy, Steller sea lion]
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A.
New Zealand fur seal
The New Zealand fur seal is a marine mammal native to New Zealand and southern Australia, known for its thick fur, agile swimming, and colonies along rugged coastal and subantarctic shores.
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B.
Weddell seal
The Weddell seal is a large, deep-diving Antarctic seal species known for living year-round on sea ice and for its remarkable ability to vocalize underwater.
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C.
Mediterranean monk seal
The Mediterranean monk seal is one of the world’s most endangered marine mammals, a rare earless seal native to the Mediterranean and adjacent seas.
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D.
leopard seal
The leopard seal is a large, powerful Antarctic marine predator known for its spotted coat and for preying on penguins and other seals.
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E.
Eubalaena australis
Eubalaena australis is the southern right whale, a large baleen whale species found in the Southern Hemisphere known for its robust body, callosities on its head, and slow, coastal migratory behavior.
- 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: Steller sea lion Target entity description: The Steller sea lion is a large, cold-water marine mammal of the North Pacific known for its massive size, thick neck, and loud, roaring vocalizations.
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A.
New Zealand fur seal
The New Zealand fur seal is a marine mammal native to New Zealand and southern Australia, known for its thick fur, agile swimming, and colonies along rugged coastal and subantarctic shores.
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B.
Weddell seal
The Weddell seal is a large, deep-diving Antarctic seal species known for living year-round on sea ice and for its remarkable ability to vocalize underwater.
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C.
Mediterranean monk seal
The Mediterranean monk seal is one of the world’s most endangered marine mammals, a rare earless seal native to the Mediterranean and adjacent seas.
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D.
leopard seal
The leopard seal is a large, powerful Antarctic marine predator known for its spotted coat and for preying on penguins and other seals.
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E.
Eubalaena australis
Eubalaena australis is the southern right whale, a large baleen whale species found in the Southern Hemisphere known for its robust body, callosities on its head, and slow, coastal migratory behavior.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
eared seal
ⓘ
pinniped ⓘ species of marine mammal ⓘ |
| binomialName |
Eumetopias
ⓘ
surface form:
Eumetopias jubatus
|
| breedingSeason | late spring to summer ⓘ |
| breedingSiteType | rookeries on remote islands ⓘ |
| CITESListing | Appendix III ⓘ |
| class | Mammalia ⓘ |
| commonName |
Steller sea lion
self-link
ⓘ
Steller sea lion self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
northern sea lion
|
| describedBy | Georg Wilhelm Steller ⓘ |
| describedInYear | 1741 ⓘ |
| diet |
cephalopods
ⓘ
crustaceans ⓘ fish ⓘ octopus ⓘ squid ⓘ |
| distinctPopulationSegment |
eastern distinct population segment
ⓘ
western distinct population segment ⓘ |
| family | Otariidae ⓘ |
| genus | Eumetopias ⓘ |
| habitat |
cold-temperate marine waters
ⓘ
offshore islands ⓘ rocky coasts ⓘ |
| IUCNStatus | Near Threatened ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| lactationPeriod | about 1 year ⓘ |
| matingSystem | polygynous ⓘ |
| maximumFemaleBodyLength | about 2.5 meters ⓘ |
| maximumFemaleBodyMass | about 300 kilograms ⓘ |
| maximumMaleBodyLength | about 3.3 meters ⓘ |
| maximumMaleBodyMass | about 1000 kilograms ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Georg Wilhelm Steller ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Aleutian Islands
ⓘ
Bering Sea ⓘ Gulf of Alaska ⓘ Northern Pacific Ocean ⓘ
surface form:
North Pacific Ocean
Sea of Okhotsk ⓘ coasts of Alaska ⓘ coasts of British Columbia ⓘ coasts of California ⓘ coasts of Japan ⓘ coasts of Oregon ⓘ coasts of Russia ⓘ coasts of Washington ⓘ |
| neckCharacteristic | thick muscular neck ⓘ |
| order | Carnivora ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| primaryThreat |
entanglement in fishing gear
ⓘ
environmental change ⓘ overfishing of prey species ⓘ |
| protectedBy |
U.S. Endangered Species Act
ⓘ
surface form:
Endangered Species Act (western distinct population segment, formerly listed)
Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act
|
| sexualDimorphism | males much larger than females ⓘ |
| socialStructure | colonial breeder ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| typicalLifespanWild | 20 to 30 years ⓘ |
| vocalization | loud roaring calls ⓘ |
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: Steller sea lion Description of subject: The Steller sea lion is a large, cold-water marine mammal of the North Pacific known for its massive size, thick neck, and loud, roaring vocalizations.
Referenced by (34)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Steller sea lions
this entity surface form:
Steller sea lions
this entity surface form:
Steller sea lions
this entity surface form:
northern sea lion
this entity surface form:
Steller sea lions
this entity surface form:
Steller sea lions
this entity surface form:
Steller sea lions
this entity surface form:
Steller's sea lion
this entity surface form:
Steller's sea lion
this entity surface form:
Steller sea lions