Colodon
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Colodon is an extinct genus of prehistoric perissodactyl mammals closely related to modern tapirs.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Colodon canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11009983 — 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: Colodon Context triple: [Tapiridae, includesGenus, Colodon]
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A.
Lepus
Lepus is a small southern constellation located just below Orion, traditionally representing a hare.
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B.
Lepus
Lepus is a genus of fast-running mammals commonly known as hares and jackrabbits, found across much of the world in open and semi-open habitats.
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C.
Nattier
Nattier is a French surname most famously associated with Jean-Marc Nattier, an 18th-century painter known for his portraits of the ladies of Louis XV’s court.
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D.
Dubochet
Dubochet is a Swiss surname most notably borne by Jacques Dubochet, the Nobel Prize–winning biophysicist recognized for his pioneering work in cryo-electron microscopy.
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E.
Cercaphus
Cercaphus is a figure from Greek mythology known primarily as a descendant of the nymph Rhode and a member of the early mythic rulers associated with the island of Rhodes.
- 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: Colodon Target entity description: Colodon is an extinct genus of prehistoric perissodactyl mammals closely related to modern tapirs.
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A.
Lepus
Lepus is a small southern constellation located just below Orion, traditionally representing a hare.
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B.
Lepus
Lepus is a genus of fast-running mammals commonly known as hares and jackrabbits, found across much of the world in open and semi-open habitats.
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C.
Nattier
Nattier is a French surname most famously associated with Jean-Marc Nattier, an 18th-century painter known for his portraits of the ladies of Louis XV’s court.
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D.
Dubochet
Dubochet is a Swiss surname most notably borne by Jacques Dubochet, the Nobel Prize–winning biophysicist recognized for his pioneering work in cryo-electron microscopy.
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E.
Cercaphus
Cercaphus is a figure from Greek mythology known primarily as a descendant of the nymph Rhode and a member of the early mythic rulers associated with the island of Rhodes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
extinct genus
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perissodactyl ⓘ prehistoric mammal genus ⓘ |
| belongsToClade | Laurasiatheria ⓘ |
| class | Mammalia ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo | modern tapirs ⓘ |
| diet | herbivorous ⓘ |
| extinctionStatus | extinct ⓘ |
| hasCommonName | Colodon ⓘ |
| hasDigitConfiguration | odd-toed ⓘ |
| isPrehistoric | true ⓘ |
| isSynapsid | true ⓘ |
| isVertebrate | true ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| lifestyle | terrestrial ⓘ |
| order | Perissodactyla ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Tapirus ⓘ |
| reproductionType | viviparous ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
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: Colodon Description of subject: Colodon is an extinct genus of prehistoric perissodactyl mammals closely related to modern tapirs.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.