Zygomaturus
E152726
Zygomaturus is an extinct genus of large, herbivorous Australian marsupials related to wombats and diprotodontids that lived during the Pleistocene.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Zygomaturus canonical | 1 |
| Zygomaturus trilobus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1297420 — 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: Zygomaturus Context triple: [Diprotodontia, includesExtinctTaxon, Zygomaturus]
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A.
Hesperethusa
Hesperethusa is a genus of flowering plants in the citrus family Rutaceae, known for species such as Hesperethusa crenulata (also called Limonia crenulata) that are native to South and Southeast Asia.
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B.
Oreortyx
Oreortyx is a small genus of New World quails best known for the mountain quail, a ground-dwelling game bird native to western North America.
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C.
Critobulus
Critobulus was an ancient Athenian known from Plato’s dialogues as the son of Crito and an associate of Socrates.
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D.
Alphitonia
Alphitonia is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs, commonly known as ash or soap trees, native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Pacific and Asia.
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E.
Clytoneus
Clytoneus is a minor figure in Greek mythology, known as one of the sons of King Alcinous of the Phaeacians in Homer’s Odyssey.
- 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: Zygomaturus Target entity description: Zygomaturus is an extinct genus of large, herbivorous Australian marsupials related to wombats and diprotodontids that lived during the Pleistocene.
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A.
Hesperethusa
Hesperethusa is a genus of flowering plants in the citrus family Rutaceae, known for species such as Hesperethusa crenulata (also called Limonia crenulata) that are native to South and Southeast Asia.
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B.
Oreortyx
Oreortyx is a small genus of New World quails best known for the mountain quail, a ground-dwelling game bird native to western North America.
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C.
Critobulus
Critobulus was an ancient Athenian known from Plato’s dialogues as the son of Crito and an associate of Socrates.
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D.
Alphitonia
Alphitonia is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs, commonly known as ash or soap trees, native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Pacific and Asia.
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E.
Clytoneus
Clytoneus is a minor figure in Greek mythology, known as one of the sons of King Alcinous of the Phaeacians in Homer’s Odyssey.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
extinct genus
ⓘ
marsupial genus ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Australian megafauna ⓘ |
| bodySize | large ⓘ |
| class | Mammalia ⓘ |
| diet | herbivorous ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole | large browser ⓘ |
| extinctionStatus | extinct ⓘ |
| family | Diprotodontidae ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Pleistocene ⓘ |
| fossilRecord | Pleistocene deposits of Australia ⓘ |
| geologicalEpoch |
Pleistocene epoch
ⓘ
surface form:
Pleistocene
|
| hasCharacteristic |
broad skull
ⓘ
diprotodont dentition ⓘ robust body ⓘ short limbs ⓘ |
| hasTypeSpecies |
Zygomaturus
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Zygomaturus trilobus
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| infraclass | Marsupialia ⓘ |
| isA | megafaunal marsupial ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| lastAppearance | Late Pleistocene ⓘ |
| lifestyle | terrestrial ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Australia ⓘ |
| nativeTo | Australia ⓘ |
| order | Diprotodontia ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
diprotodontids
ⓘ
wombats ⓘ |
| reproduction | marsupial reproduction ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| temporalRange |
Pleistocene epoch
ⓘ
surface form:
Pleistocene
|
| trophicLevel | primary consumer ⓘ |
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: Zygomaturus Description of subject: Zygomaturus is an extinct genus of large, herbivorous Australian marsupials related to wombats and diprotodontids that lived during the Pleistocene.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Zygomaturus trilobus