Vulpes
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Vulpes is a genus of small to medium-sized true foxes in the dog family Canidae, which includes species such as the red fox and the Arctic fox.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vulpes canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10423815 — 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: Vulpes Context triple: [Arctic fox, genus, Vulpes]
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A.
Dolichonyx
Dolichonyx is a small genus of New World migratory songbirds best known for the bobolink, a grassland species with distinctive plumage and long-distance migration.
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B.
Oreamnos
Oreamnos is a genus of North American mountain goats known for their thick white coats and exceptional climbing ability on steep, rocky terrain.
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C.
Ictonyx
Ictonyx is a genus of African striped polecats and related small carnivorous mammals in the weasel family.
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D.
Vulpes macrotis
Vulpes macrotis is a small North American fox species, commonly known as the kit fox, adapted to arid and semi-arid desert and grassland habitats.
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E.
Ratiaria
Ratiaria was a prominent Roman city and military center on the Danube frontier in the province of Moesia (later Dacia Ripensis), known for its strategic and administrative importance.
- 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: Vulpes Target entity description: Vulpes is a genus of small to medium-sized true foxes in the dog family Canidae, which includes species such as the red fox and the Arctic fox.
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A.
Dolichonyx
Dolichonyx is a small genus of New World migratory songbirds best known for the bobolink, a grassland species with distinctive plumage and long-distance migration.
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B.
Oreamnos
Oreamnos is a genus of North American mountain goats known for their thick white coats and exceptional climbing ability on steep, rocky terrain.
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C.
Ictonyx
Ictonyx is a genus of African striped polecats and related small carnivorous mammals in the weasel family.
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D.
Vulpes macrotis
Vulpes macrotis is a small North American fox species, commonly known as the kit fox, adapted to arid and semi-arid desert and grassland habitats.
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E.
Ratiaria
Ratiaria was a prominent Roman city and military center on the Danube frontier in the province of Moesia (later Dacia Ripensis), known for its strategic and administrative importance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
genus
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| belongsToClade | Caniformia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsToSubfamily | Caninae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characteristic |
bushy tail
ⓘ
elongated muzzle ⓘ small to medium-sized canids ⓘ |
| class | Mammalia ⓘ |
| commonName | true foxes ⓘ |
| describedAs | genus of small to medium-sized true foxes ⓘ |
| diet | omnivorous ⓘ |
| etymology | Latin for fox ⓘ |
| family | Canidae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| habitat |
Africa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eurasia NERFINISHED ⓘ North America NERFINISHED ⓘ Northern Hemisphere NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includesCommonName |
Arctic fox
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bengal fox NERFINISHED ⓘ Blanford's fox NERFINISHED ⓘ Tibetan fox NERFINISHED ⓘ cape fox ⓘ corsac fox NERFINISHED ⓘ fennec fox NERFINISHED ⓘ kit fox ⓘ pale fox ⓘ red fox ⓘ swift fox ⓘ |
| includesSpecies |
Vulpes bengalensis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vulpes cana NERFINISHED ⓘ Vulpes chama NERFINISHED ⓘ Vulpes corsac NERFINISHED ⓘ Vulpes ferrilata NERFINISHED ⓘ Vulpes lagopus ⓘ Vulpes macrotis NERFINISHED ⓘ Vulpes pallida ⓘ Vulpes rueppellii NERFINISHED ⓘ Vulpes velox NERFINISHED ⓘ Vulpes vulpes NERFINISHED ⓘ Vulpes vulpes griffithi NERFINISHED ⓘ Vulpes zerda ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| order | Carnivora ⓘ |
| parentTaxon | Canidae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| scientificName | Vulpes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| typeSpecies | Vulpes vulpes ⓘ |
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: Vulpes Description of subject: Vulpes is a genus of small to medium-sized true foxes in the dog family Canidae, which includes species such as the red fox and the Arctic fox.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.