Tetrapoda
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Tetrapoda is a major vertebrate clade comprising four-limbed animals and their descendants, including amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tetrapoda canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10105833 — 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: Tetrapoda Context triple: [Sarcopterygii, includes, Tetrapoda]
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A.
Amniota
Amniota is a clade of vertebrate animals characterized by having an amniotic egg, including reptiles, birds, and mammals.
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B.
Vertebrata
Vertebrata is a major subphylum of chordates comprising animals with backbones or spinal columns, including fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.
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C.
Tylopoda
Tylopoda is a suborder of even-toed ungulates that includes camels and their close relatives, characterized by distinctive foot structures adapted for walking on soft or sandy terrain.
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D.
Synapsida
Synapsida is a major clade of amniotes that includes mammals and their extinct, mammal-like ancestors distinguished by a single temporal opening in the skull behind each eye.
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E.
Avemetatarsalia
Avemetatarsalia is a major clade of archosaurs that includes dinosaurs (and thus birds) and their close relatives, representing the bird-line branch of archosaur evolution.
- 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: Tetrapoda Target entity description: Tetrapoda is a major vertebrate clade comprising four-limbed animals and their descendants, including amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.
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A.
Amniota
Amniota is a clade of vertebrate animals characterized by having an amniotic egg, including reptiles, birds, and mammals.
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B.
Vertebrata
Vertebrata is a major subphylum of chordates comprising animals with backbones or spinal columns, including fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.
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C.
Tylopoda
Tylopoda is a suborder of even-toed ungulates that includes camels and their close relatives, characterized by distinctive foot structures adapted for walking on soft or sandy terrain.
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D.
Synapsida
Synapsida is a major clade of amniotes that includes mammals and their extinct, mammal-like ancestors distinguished by a single temporal opening in the skull behind each eye.
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E.
Avemetatarsalia
Avemetatarsalia is a major clade of archosaurs that includes dinosaurs (and thus birds) and their close relatives, representing the bird-line branch of archosaur evolution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
clade
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ vertebrate clade ⓘ |
| containsGroup |
crown tetrapods
ⓘ
stem tetrapods ⓘ |
| crownGroupIncludes |
Amniota
ⓘ
Lissamphibia ⓘ |
| evolvedFrom |
Sarcopterygii
ⓘ
lobe-finned fishes ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Late Devonian
ⓘ
about 370 million years ago ⓘ |
| habitat |
freshwater environments
ⓘ
marine environments ⓘ terrestrial environments ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
bony endoskeleton
ⓘ
four limbs or descended from four-limbed ancestors ⓘ internal nostrils (choanae) in most lineages ⓘ lungs for air breathing ⓘ neck separating head from trunk ⓘ paired limbs with digits ⓘ pelvic girdle attached to vertebral column ⓘ weight-bearing limb girdles ⓘ |
| hasSynapomorphy |
limbs with digits instead of paired fins
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loss or reduction of internal gills in adults ⓘ stapes (ear bone) derived from hyomandibula ⓘ |
| higherClassification |
Gnathostomata
ⓘ
Osteichthyes ⓘ |
| includesExtant |
amphibians
ⓘ
birds ⓘ mammals ⓘ reptiles ⓘ |
| includesExtinct |
early stem tetrapods
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many Paleozoic amphibian-grade groups ⓘ |
| includesTaxon |
Amniota
ⓘ
Amphibia ⓘ Aves ⓘ Lissamphibia ⓘ Mammalia ⓘ Reptilia ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| partOf | Sarcopterygii ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproductionMode |
oviparous in many lineages
ⓘ
viviparous in some lineages ⓘ |
| subdivision |
Batrachomorpha
ⓘ
Reptiliomorpha ⓘ |
| subphylum | Vertebrata ⓘ |
| taxonRank | superclass ⓘ |
| typeSpeciesOrRepresentative |
Acanthostega
ⓘ
Ichthyostega ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Tetrapoda Description of subject: Tetrapoda is a major vertebrate clade comprising four-limbed animals and their descendants, including amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.