Lipotes
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Lipotes is a genus of freshwater river dolphins best known for the baiji, a critically endangered or possibly extinct species once native to China’s Yangtze River.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lipotes vexillifer | 7 |
| Lipotes canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1287467 — 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: Lipotes Context triple: [baiji, genus, Lipotes]
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A.
Hydropotes inermis
Hydropotes inermis, commonly known as the water deer, is a small East Asian deer species notable for its lack of antlers and prominent tusk-like canine teeth.
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B.
Otter
Otter is a friendly, good-natured river-dwelling animal character in Kenneth Grahame’s classic children’s novel "The Wind in the Willows," known for his devotion to his family and his easy camaraderie with the other riverbank creatures.
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C.
Hippocamelus bisulcus
Hippocamelus bisulcus, commonly known as the South Andean deer or huemul, is an endangered deer species native to the mountainous regions of southern Chile and Argentina.
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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.
Echidna
Echidna is a monstrous figure in Greek mythology, often called the "Mother of Monsters," who is typically depicted as half-woman and half-serpent.
- 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: Lipotes Target entity description: Lipotes is a genus of freshwater river dolphins best known for the baiji, a critically endangered or possibly extinct species once native to China’s Yangtze River.
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A.
Hydropotes inermis
Hydropotes inermis, commonly known as the water deer, is a small East Asian deer species notable for its lack of antlers and prominent tusk-like canine teeth.
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B.
Otter
Otter is a friendly, good-natured river-dwelling animal character in Kenneth Grahame’s classic children’s novel "The Wind in the Willows," known for his devotion to his family and his easy camaraderie with the other riverbank creatures.
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C.
Hippocamelus bisulcus
Hippocamelus bisulcus, commonly known as the South Andean deer or huemul, is an endangered deer species native to the mountainous regions of southern Chile and Argentina.
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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.
Echidna
Echidna is a monstrous figure in Greek mythology, often called the "Mother of Monsters," who is typically depicted as half-woman and half-serpent.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Lipotes Description of subject: Lipotes is a genus of freshwater river dolphins best known for the baiji, a critically endangered or possibly extinct species once native to China’s Yangtze River.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Lipotes vexillifer
subject surface form:
Yangtze river dolphin
this entity surface form:
Lipotes vexillifer
subject surface form:
Yangtze river dolphin
this entity surface form:
Lipotes vexillifer
this entity surface form:
Lipotes vexillifer
this entity surface form:
Lipotes vexillifer
this entity surface form:
Lipotes vexillifer