Cricetidae
E743089
Cricetidae is a large family of rodents that includes hamsters, voles, lemmings, and many New World rats and mice.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cricetidae canonical | 9 |
| Arvicolinae | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8467142 — 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: Cricetidae Context triple: [Sciurognathi, includesTaxon, Cricetidae]
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A.
Muridae
Muridae is the largest family of rodents, encompassing mice, rats, and many related small mammals found worldwide.
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B.
Sciuridae
Sciuridae is a large family of rodents that includes squirrels, chipmunks, marmots, and prairie dogs, characterized by their strong hind legs, bushy tails, and gnawing incisors.
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C.
Sciurinae
Sciurinae is a subfamily of squirrels that includes tree squirrels and flying squirrels found across much of the world.
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D.
Erethizontidae
Erethizontidae is the family of New World porcupines, medium-sized arboreal or terrestrial rodents characterized by coats of sharp quills used for defense.
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E.
Hystricidae
Hystricidae is a family of large, spiny rodents commonly known as Old World porcupines, native to parts of Europe, Africa, and 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: Cricetidae Target entity description: Cricetidae is a large family of rodents that includes hamsters, voles, lemmings, and many New World rats and mice.
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A.
Muridae
Muridae is the largest family of rodents, encompassing mice, rats, and many related small mammals found worldwide.
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B.
Sciuridae
Sciuridae is a large family of rodents that includes squirrels, chipmunks, marmots, and prairie dogs, characterized by their strong hind legs, bushy tails, and gnawing incisors.
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C.
Sciurinae
Sciurinae is a subfamily of squirrels that includes tree squirrels and flying squirrels found across much of the world.
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D.
Erethizontidae
Erethizontidae is the family of New World porcupines, medium-sized arboreal or terrestrial rodents characterized by coats of sharp quills used for defense.
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E.
Hystricidae
Hystricidae is a family of large, spiny rodents commonly known as Old World porcupines, native to parts of Europe, Africa, and Asia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
rodent family
ⓘ
taxonomic family ⓘ |
| class | Mammalia ⓘ |
| describedAs | family including hamsters voles lemmings and many New World rats and mice ⓘ |
| diet |
herbivorous
ⓘ
omnivorous ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
ever-growing incisors
ⓘ
fur-covered body ⓘ gnawing dentition ⓘ small body size ⓘ |
| includes |
New World mouse
ⓘ
New World rat ⓘ hamster ⓘ lemming ⓘ vole ⓘ |
| includesGenus |
Akodon
ⓘ
Clethrionomys ⓘ Cricetus ⓘ Dicrostonyx ⓘ Lemmus ⓘ Mesocricetus ⓘ Microtus ⓘ Myodes ⓘ Neotoma ⓘ Onychomys ⓘ Oryzomys ⓘ Peromyscus ⓘ Phodopus ⓘ Reithrodontomys ⓘ Sigmodon ⓘ Synaptomys ⓘ |
| includesSubfamily |
Arvicolinae
ⓘ
linked to:
Cricetidae
Cricetinae ⓘ Neotominae ⓘ Neotomine–Peromyscine ⓘ
linked to:
Neotominae
Sigmodontinae ⓘ Tylomyinae ⓘ |
| isAmong | largest rodent families ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Arctic regions
ⓘ
linked to:
Arctic region
Eurasia ⓘ North America ⓘ South America ⓘ |
| order | Rodentia ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproduction | live birth ⓘ |
| superfamily | Muroidea ⓘ |
| taxonRank | family ⓘ |
| typeOf | rodent ⓘ |
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: Cricetidae Description of subject: Cricetidae is a large family of rodents that includes hamsters, voles, lemmings, and many New World rats and mice.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Cricetidae