Homininae
E179091
Homininae is a subfamily of great apes that includes humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas, characterized by advanced cognitive abilities and complex social behaviors.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1526147 — 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: Homininae Context triple: [Hominidae, includesTaxon, Homininae]
-
A.
Hominidae
Hominidae is the biological family of great apes that includes humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans.
-
B.
Homo
Homo is the biological genus that includes modern humans and their closest extinct relatives, characterized by advanced cognitive abilities and the use of complex tools.
-
C.
Hominoidea
Hominoidea is the biological superfamily of tailless primates that includes humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, gibbons, and their extinct relatives.
-
D.
Australopithecus africanus
Australopithecus africanus is an early hominin species from southern Africa, dating to about 3–2 million years ago, that exhibits a mix of ape-like and human-like traits and is important for understanding human evolution.
-
E.
Paranthropus robustus
Paranthropus robustus is an extinct robust australopithecine hominin species from southern Africa, characterized by a heavy jaw, large teeth, and adaptations for powerful chewing.
- 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: Homininae Target entity description: Homininae is a subfamily of great apes that includes humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas, characterized by advanced cognitive abilities and complex social behaviors.
-
A.
Hominidae
Hominidae is the biological family of great apes that includes humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans.
-
B.
Homo
Homo is the biological genus that includes modern humans and their closest extinct relatives, characterized by advanced cognitive abilities and the use of complex tools.
-
C.
Hominoidea
Hominoidea is the biological superfamily of tailless primates that includes humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, gibbons, and their extinct relatives.
-
D.
Australopithecus africanus
Australopithecus africanus is an early hominin species from southern Africa, dating to about 3–2 million years ago, that exhibits a mix of ape-like and human-like traits and is important for understanding human evolution.
-
E.
Paranthropus robustus
Paranthropus robustus is an extinct robust australopithecine hominin species from southern Africa, characterized by a heavy jaw, large teeth, and adaptations for powerful chewing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
subfamily
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| approximateTimeOfOrigin | about14To16MillionYearsAgo ⓘ |
| class | Mammalia ⓘ |
| commonName | hominines ⓘ |
| containsExtantGenera |
Gorilla
ⓘ
Homo ⓘ Pan ⓘ |
| containsExtinctGenera |
Ardipithecus
ⓘ
Australopithecus ⓘ Orrorin ⓘ Paranthropus ⓘ Sahelanthropus ⓘ |
| distinguishedBy |
advancedCognitiveAbilities
ⓘ
complexSocialBehaviors ⓘ extendedParentalCare ⓘ highDegreeOfSocialLearning ⓘ largeBrainRelativeToBodySize ⓘ useOfTools ⓘ |
| family | Hominidae ⓘ |
| geologicalTimeOfOrigin | Miocene ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
complexCommunicationSystems
ⓘ
flexibleSocialStructures ⓘ highDegreeOfEncephalization ⓘ lackOfTail ⓘ longLifespan ⓘ prolongedJuvenileDevelopment ⓘ |
| includesCommonName |
chimpanzees
ⓘ
gorillas ⓘ humans ⓘ |
| includesLineage |
AfricanApeLineages
ⓘ
humanLineage ⓘ |
| includesTaxon |
Gorilla
ⓘ
Homo ⓘ Pan ⓘ |
| infraorder | Simiiformes ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| memberOfClade | greatApes ⓘ |
| order | Primates ⓘ |
| parentTaxon | Hominidae ⓘ |
| parvorder | Catarrhini ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| sisterGroup | Ponginae ⓘ |
| suborder | Haplorhini ⓘ |
| superfamily | Hominoidea ⓘ |
| taxonRank | subfamily ⓘ |
| typeGenus | Homo ⓘ |
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: Homininae Description of subject: Homininae is a subfamily of great apes that includes humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas, characterized by advanced cognitive abilities and complex social behaviors.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Hominina