Nandiniidae
E171094
Nandiniidae is a small family of African carnivorous mammals best known for the African palm civet, a solitary, arboreal species with a cat-like appearance.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nandiniidae canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1500306 — 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: Nandiniidae Context triple: [Carnivora, includesFamily, Nandiniidae]
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A.
Reduncinae
Reduncinae is a subfamily of African antelopes within the Bovidae family, including species such as reedbucks, kobs, and waterbucks that are typically associated with wetland and grassland habitats.
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B.
Oreocnide
Oreocnide is a genus of flowering plants in the nettle family Urticaceae, comprising species typically found in tropical and subtropical regions of Asia.
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C.
Mimidae
Mimidae is a family of passerine birds known for their vocal mimicry, including mockingbirds, thrashers, and catbirds.
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D.
Apinae
Apinae is a large subfamily of bees that includes honey bees, bumblebees, and many other important pollinating species.
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E.
Sagittariidae
Sagittariidae is a small bird family best known for the secretarybird, a distinctive long-legged raptor native to sub-Saharan Africa.
- 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: Nandiniidae Target entity description: Nandiniidae is a small family of African carnivorous mammals best known for the African palm civet, a solitary, arboreal species with a cat-like appearance.
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A.
Reduncinae
Reduncinae is a subfamily of African antelopes within the Bovidae family, including species such as reedbucks, kobs, and waterbucks that are typically associated with wetland and grassland habitats.
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B.
Oreocnide
Oreocnide is a genus of flowering plants in the nettle family Urticaceae, comprising species typically found in tropical and subtropical regions of Asia.
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C.
Mimidae
Mimidae is a family of passerine birds known for their vocal mimicry, including mockingbirds, thrashers, and catbirds.
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D.
Apinae
Apinae is a large subfamily of bees that includes honey bees, bumblebees, and many other important pollinating species.
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E.
Sagittariidae
Sagittariidae is a small bird family best known for the secretarybird, a distinctive long-legged raptor native to sub-Saharan Africa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mammal family
ⓘ
taxonomic family ⓘ |
| belongsToClade |
Eutheria
ⓘ
surface form:
Placentalia
|
| bestKnownFor | African palm civet ⓘ |
| class | Mammalia ⓘ |
| commonName | African palm civet family ⓘ |
| containsGenus | Nandinia ⓘ |
| containsTaxon | Nandinia binotata ⓘ |
| describedAs | small family of African carnivorous mammals ⓘ |
| diet | carnivorous ⓘ |
| distinguishedFrom |
Felidae
ⓘ
Viverridae ⓘ |
| ecologicalNiche | arboreal carnivore ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution |
Sub-Saharan Africa
ⓘ
surface form:
sub-Saharan Africa
|
| hasCharacteristic |
arboreal
ⓘ
cat-like appearance ⓘ solitary ⓘ |
| hasMember | African palm civet ⓘ |
| hasTypeSpecies | Nandinia binotata ⓘ |
| higherClassification |
Carnivora
ⓘ
Feliformia ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| nativeTo | Africa ⓘ |
| order | Carnivora ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| suborder | Feliformia ⓘ |
| taxonRank | family ⓘ |
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: Nandiniidae Description of subject: Nandiniidae is a small family of African carnivorous mammals best known for the African palm civet, a solitary, arboreal species with a cat-like appearance.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.