Nesophontidae
E721115
Nesophontidae is an extinct family of small, shrew-like insectivorous mammals once endemic to the Caribbean islands.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nesophontes | 1 |
| Nesophontes edithae | 1 |
| Nesophontes micrus | 1 |
| Nesophontidae canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8255676 — 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: Nesophontidae Context triple: [Eulipotyphla, includesFamily, Nesophontidae]
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A.
Chaeropodidae
Chaeropodidae is an extinct family of small Australian marsupials, commonly known as pig-footed bandicoots, characterized by their unusually slender limbs and reduced toes.
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B.
Psophiidae
Psophiidae is a small family of tropical South American birds known as trumpeters, recognized for their loud calls and ground-dwelling habits in rainforest habitats.
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C.
Momotidae
Momotidae is a family of colorful, medium-sized Neotropical birds known as motmots, characterized by their long, often racket-tipped tails and insectivorous habits.
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D.
Nesospiza
Nesospiza is a small genus of seed-eating tanagers endemic to the Tristan da Cunha archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean.
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E.
Nyctibiiformes
Nyctibiiformes is an order of nocturnal, insect-eating birds known as potoos, characterized by their excellent camouflage and wide, gaping mouths.
- 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: Nesophontidae Target entity description: Nesophontidae is an extinct family of small, shrew-like insectivorous mammals once endemic to the Caribbean islands.
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A.
Chaeropodidae
Chaeropodidae is an extinct family of small Australian marsupials, commonly known as pig-footed bandicoots, characterized by their unusually slender limbs and reduced toes.
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B.
Psophiidae
Psophiidae is a small family of tropical South American birds known as trumpeters, recognized for their loud calls and ground-dwelling habits in rainforest habitats.
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C.
Momotidae
Momotidae is a family of colorful, medium-sized Neotropical birds known as motmots, characterized by their long, often racket-tipped tails and insectivorous habits.
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D.
Nesospiza
Nesospiza is a small genus of seed-eating tanagers endemic to the Tristan da Cunha archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean.
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E.
Nyctibiiformes
Nyctibiiformes is an order of nocturnal, insect-eating birds known as potoos, characterized by their excellent camouflage and wide, gaping mouths.
- 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: Nesophontidae Description of subject: Nesophontidae is an extinct family of small, shrew-like insectivorous mammals once endemic to the Caribbean islands.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Nesophontidae
linked to: Nesophontidae
linked to: Nesophontidae