Corythosaurus
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Corythosaurus is a genus of crested, duck-billed herbivorous dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous known for its distinctive hollow cranial crest likely used for vocalization and display.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Corythosaurus canonical | 3 |
| Lambeosaurus | 2 |
| Corythosaurus casuarius | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10019060 — 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: Corythosaurus Context triple: [Jurassic Park III, featuresCreature, Corythosaurus]
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A.
Dryosaurus
Dryosaurus was a small, fast, plant-eating ornithopod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic period, known for its long legs and lightweight build.
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B.
Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis
Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis is a Late Cretaceous dome-skulled herbivorous dinosaur known for its extremely thick, bony skull roof, thought to have been used in head-butting or display behaviors.
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C.
Hylaeosaurus
Hylaeosaurus is an early armored dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of England, notable as one of the first dinosaurs ever described scientifically and recognized for its heavy body armor and spines.
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D.
Ornithomimus
Ornithomimus was a fast, ostrich-like theropod dinosaur known for its long legs, toothless beak, and likely omnivorous diet during the Late Cretaceous period.
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E.
Daspletosaurus
Daspletosaurus was a large, carnivorous tyrannosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of North America, known as a powerful apex predator with a massive skull and robust teeth.
- 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: Corythosaurus Target entity description: Corythosaurus is a genus of crested, duck-billed herbivorous dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous known for its distinctive hollow cranial crest likely used for vocalization and display.
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A.
Dryosaurus
Dryosaurus was a small, fast, plant-eating ornithopod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic period, known for its long legs and lightweight build.
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B.
Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis
Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis is a Late Cretaceous dome-skulled herbivorous dinosaur known for its extremely thick, bony skull roof, thought to have been used in head-butting or display behaviors.
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C.
Hylaeosaurus
Hylaeosaurus is an early armored dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of England, notable as one of the first dinosaurs ever described scientifically and recognized for its heavy body armor and spines.
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D.
Ornithomimus
Ornithomimus was a fast, ostrich-like theropod dinosaur known for its long legs, toothless beak, and likely omnivorous diet during the Late Cretaceous period.
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E.
Daspletosaurus
Daspletosaurus was a large, carnivorous tyrannosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of North America, known as a powerful apex predator with a massive skull and robust teeth.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
genus
ⓘ
hadrosaurid dinosaur ⓘ lambeosaurine hadrosaurid ⓘ |
| belongsToClade |
Hadrosauridae
ⓘ
Lambeosaurinae ⓘ |
| class | Reptilia ⓘ |
| crestFunction |
sexual selection
ⓘ
species recognition ⓘ visual display ⓘ vocalization ⓘ |
| crestType | hollow cranial crest ⓘ |
| describedBy | Barnum Brown ⓘ |
| diet | herbivorous ⓘ |
| family | Hadrosauridae ⓘ |
| feedingHabits |
browser
ⓘ
ground-level and mid-height herbivore ⓘ |
| fossilType |
body fossils
ⓘ
postcranial skeletons ⓘ skull fossils ⓘ |
| hadBeakType | duck-billed ⓘ |
| hasCranialCrest | yes ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| knownFrom |
Dinosaur Park Formation
ⓘ
Oldman Formation ⓘ |
| livedIn |
Alberta
ⓘ
Canada ⓘ North America ⓘ western North America ⓘ |
| locomotion |
bipedal
ⓘ
facultatively quadrupedal ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | helmet lizard ⓘ |
| nicknamed | helmet lizard ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
elongated tail
ⓘ
large hollow nasal passages in crest ⓘ stiffened tail with ossified tendons ⓘ |
| order | Ornithischia ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Hypacrosaurus
ⓘ
Lambeosaurus ⓘ
linked to:
Corythosaurus
Parasaurolophus ⓘ |
| reproduction | oviparous ⓘ |
| subfamily | Lambeosaurinae ⓘ |
| suborder | Ornithopoda ⓘ |
| superorder | Dinosauria ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| temporalRange |
Campanian
ⓘ
Late Cretaceous ⓘ |
| typeSpecies |
Corythosaurus casuarius
ⓘ
linked to:
Corythosaurus
|
| yearDescribed | 1914 ⓘ |
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: Corythosaurus Description of subject: Corythosaurus is a genus of crested, duck-billed herbivorous dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous known for its distinctive hollow cranial crest likely used for vocalization and display.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Corythosaurus
linked to: Corythosaurus
linked to: Corythosaurus
subject linked to:
dinosaurs on Isla Sorna