Tapirus
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Tapirus is a genus of large, herbivorous mammals known as tapirs, characterized by their short prehensile snouts and inhabiting forested regions of Central and South America and Southeast Asia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tapirus canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11010010 — 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: Tapirus Context triple: [Tapirus terrestris, genus, Tapirus]
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A.
Tapirus terrestris
Tapirus terrestris, commonly known as the South American tapir, is a large, herbivorous mammal with a short prehensile snout that inhabits forests and wetlands across much of South America.
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B.
Tapirus indicus
Tapirus indicus, commonly known as the Malayan tapir, is the largest of the tapir species and is easily recognized by its distinctive black-and-white coloration and native range in Southeast Asian rainforests.
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C.
Tapirira
Tapirira is a genus of tropical trees in the cashew and sumac family, known for species that often dominate lowland Neotropical forests.
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Tapirapé
Tapirapé is an indigenous people of central Brazil whose language belongs to the Tupi–Guaraní family and who maintain distinct cultural and social traditions.
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Andean tapir
The Andean tapir is a rare, thick-furred tapir species native to the high-altitude cloud forests and páramo ecosystems of the northern Andes in South America.
- 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: Tapirus Target entity description: Tapirus is a genus of large, herbivorous mammals known as tapirs, characterized by their short prehensile snouts and inhabiting forested regions of Central and South America and Southeast Asia.
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A.
Tapirus terrestris
Tapirus terrestris, commonly known as the South American tapir, is a large, herbivorous mammal with a short prehensile snout that inhabits forests and wetlands across much of South America.
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B.
Tapirus indicus
Tapirus indicus, commonly known as the Malayan tapir, is the largest of the tapir species and is easily recognized by its distinctive black-and-white coloration and native range in Southeast Asian rainforests.
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C.
Tapirira
Tapirira is a genus of tropical trees in the cashew and sumac family, known for species that often dominate lowland Neotropical forests.
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D.
Tapirapé
Tapirapé is an indigenous people of central Brazil whose language belongs to the Tupi–Guaraní family and who maintain distinct cultural and social traditions.
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E.
Andean tapir
The Andean tapir is a rare, thick-furred tapir species native to the high-altitude cloud forests and páramo ecosystems of the northern Andes in South America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Tapirus Description of subject: Tapirus is a genus of large, herbivorous mammals known as tapirs, characterized by their short prehensile snouts and inhabiting forested regions of Central and South America and Southeast Asia.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.