Steller's sea cow
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Steller's sea cow was a gigantic, slow-moving marine mammal related to manatees and dugongs that once inhabited the cold waters of the North Pacific before being hunted to extinction in the 18th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Steller's sea cow canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14337339 — 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: Steller's sea cow Context triple: [Georg Wilhelm Steller, discovered, Steller's sea cow]
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A.
Trichechus manatus
Trichechus manatus is a large, herbivorous marine mammal found in shallow coastal waters, rivers, and estuaries of the Caribbean and southeastern North America.
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B.
Phocarctos
Phocarctos is a genus of eared seals best known for including the New Zealand sea lion, one of the rarest and most threatened sea lion species.
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C.
Shima Kustanovich
Shima Kustanovich was the wife of prominent Orthodox rabbi and halachic authority Rabbi Moshe Feinstein.
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D.
Caspian seal
The Caspian seal is a small, endangered earless seal species found exclusively in the landlocked Caspian Sea region.
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E.
Eubalaena
Eubalaena is a genus of large baleen whales commonly known as right whales, found in temperate and subpolar oceans.
- 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: Steller's sea cow Target entity description: Steller's sea cow was a gigantic, slow-moving marine mammal related to manatees and dugongs that once inhabited the cold waters of the North Pacific before being hunted to extinction in the 18th century.
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A.
Trichechus manatus
Trichechus manatus is a large, herbivorous marine mammal found in shallow coastal waters, rivers, and estuaries of the Caribbean and southeastern North America.
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B.
Phocarctos
Phocarctos is a genus of eared seals best known for including the New Zealand sea lion, one of the rarest and most threatened sea lion species.
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C.
Shima Kustanovich
Shima Kustanovich was the wife of prominent Orthodox rabbi and halachic authority Rabbi Moshe Feinstein.
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D.
Caspian seal
The Caspian seal is a small, endangered earless seal species found exclusively in the landlocked Caspian Sea region.
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E.
Eubalaena
Eubalaena is a genus of large baleen whales commonly known as right whales, found in temperate and subpolar oceans.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.