Stegosauria
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Stegosauria is a group of herbivorous, plated dinosaurs characterized by rows of bony plates along their backs and spiked tails, best known from the Late Jurassic period.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stegosauria canonical | 2 |
| Stegosauria indet. | 1 |
| Stegosauridae | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11837012 — 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: Stegosauria Context triple: [Stegosaurus, infraorder, Stegosauria]
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A.
Titanosauria
Titanosauria is a diverse clade of large, long-necked sauropod dinosaurs that includes some of the heaviest and most massive land animals known from the fossil record.
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B.
Neosauropoda
Neosauropoda is a major clade of advanced sauropod dinosaurs that includes many of the largest land animals in history, such as diplodocids and brachiosaurids.
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C.
Sauropoda
Sauropoda is a major group of long-necked, large-bodied, herbivorous dinosaurs that includes some of the largest land animals in Earth’s history.
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D.
Saltasauridae
Saltasauridae is a family of small to medium-sized, heavily armored titanosaurs known from the Late Cretaceous and characterized by bony plates (osteoderms) embedded in their skin.
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E.
Sauropodomorpha
Sauropodomorpha is a major group of long-necked, mostly herbivorous dinosaurs that includes the giant sauropods and their early relatives.
- 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: Stegosauria Target entity description: Stegosauria is a group of herbivorous, plated dinosaurs characterized by rows of bony plates along their backs and spiked tails, best known from the Late Jurassic period.
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A.
Titanosauria
Titanosauria is a diverse clade of large, long-necked sauropod dinosaurs that includes some of the heaviest and most massive land animals known from the fossil record.
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B.
Neosauropoda
Neosauropoda is a major clade of advanced sauropod dinosaurs that includes many of the largest land animals in history, such as diplodocids and brachiosaurids.
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C.
Sauropoda
Sauropoda is a major group of long-necked, large-bodied, herbivorous dinosaurs that includes some of the largest land animals in Earth’s history.
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D.
Saltasauridae
Saltasauridae is a family of small to medium-sized, heavily armored titanosaurs known from the Late Cretaceous and characterized by bony plates (osteoderms) embedded in their skin.
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E.
Sauropodomorpha
Sauropodomorpha is a major group of long-necked, mostly herbivorous dinosaurs that includes the giant sauropods and their early relatives.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dinosaur clade
ⓘ
ornithischian dinosaur group ⓘ |
| belongsToClade |
Genasauria
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Thyreophora NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsFamousMember | Stegosaurus GENERATED ⓘ |
| containsMember |
Chungkingosaurus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dacentrurus NERFINISHED ⓘ Huayangosaurus NERFINISHED ⓘ Kentrosaurus NERFINISHED ⓘ Miragaia NERFINISHED ⓘ Tuojiangosaurus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsTaxon |
Huayangosauridae
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Stegosauridae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| defensiveAdaptation | tail spikes ⓘ |
| diet | herbivorous ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole | medium to large-bodied herbivore ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Middle Jurassic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
heavy body armor
ⓘ
leaf-shaped cheek teeth ⓘ narrow, pointed skull ⓘ rows of dorsal bony plates ⓘ short forelimbs compared to hindlimbs ⓘ small head relative to body size ⓘ spiked tail (thagomizer) ⓘ |
| knownFromFossilRecord |
Africa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ North America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lastAppearance | Early Cretaceous ⓘ |
| locomotion | quadrupedal ⓘ |
| namedBy | Othniel Charles Marsh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| possibleFunctionOfPlates |
display
ⓘ
species recognition ⓘ thermoregulation ⓘ |
| primaryFood | low-growing vegetation ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Archosauria
ⓘ
Avemetatarsalia NERFINISHED ⓘ Dinosauria NERFINISHED ⓘ Ornithischia NERFINISHED ⓘ Reptilia NERFINISHED ⓘ Tetrapoda NERFINISHED ⓘ Thyreophora NERFINISHED ⓘ Vertebrata NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| taxonRank |
clade
ⓘ
infraorder ⓘ |
| temporalRange |
Early Cretaceous
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Late Jurassic ⓘ Middle Jurassic ⓘ |
| typeOf | armored dinosaur ⓘ |
| yearNamed | 1877 ⓘ |
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: Stegosauria Description of subject: Stegosauria is a group of herbivorous, plated dinosaurs characterized by rows of bony plates along their backs and spiked tails, best known from the Late Jurassic period.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Stegosauridae
this entity surface form:
Stegosauria indet.