Aplodontiidae
E202448
Aplodontiidae is a family of primitive rodents best known for the mountain beaver, a burrowing species native to the Pacific Northwest of North America.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Aplodontiidae canonical | 5 |
| Aplodontia | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1809873 — 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: Aplodontiidae Context triple: [Sciuromorpha, includes, Aplodontiidae]
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A.
Antilocapridae
Antilocapridae is a family of North American hoofed mammals best known for the pronghorn, a swift, antelope-like species with distinctive forked horns.
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B.
Lagomorpha
Lagomorpha is an order of mammals that includes rabbits, hares, and pikas, characterized by continuously growing incisors and powerful hind legs adapted for jumping.
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C.
Tremarctinae
Tremarctinae is a subfamily of bears that includes the living spectacled bear and several extinct short-faced bears of the Americas.
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D.
Eupleridae
Eupleridae is a family of carnivorous mammals endemic to Madagascar, including animals such as the fossa and Malagasy mongooses, that evolved from a common ancestor related to other carnivorans.
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E.
Sciurillinae
Sciurillinae is a small subfamily of squirrels that includes some of the tiniest and most primitive tree-dwelling squirrel species found in South America.
- 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: Aplodontiidae Target entity description: Aplodontiidae is a family of primitive rodents best known for the mountain beaver, a burrowing species native to the Pacific Northwest of North America.
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A.
Antilocapridae
Antilocapridae is a family of North American hoofed mammals best known for the pronghorn, a swift, antelope-like species with distinctive forked horns.
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B.
Lagomorpha
Lagomorpha is an order of mammals that includes rabbits, hares, and pikas, characterized by continuously growing incisors and powerful hind legs adapted for jumping.
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C.
Tremarctinae
Tremarctinae is a subfamily of bears that includes the living spectacled bear and several extinct short-faced bears of the Americas.
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D.
Eupleridae
Eupleridae is a family of carnivorous mammals endemic to Madagascar, including animals such as the fossa and Malagasy mongooses, that evolved from a common ancestor related to other carnivorans.
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E.
Sciurillinae
Sciurillinae is a small subfamily of squirrels that includes some of the tiniest and most primitive tree-dwelling squirrel species found in South America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | rodent family ⓘ |
| bestKnownFor | mountain beaver ⓘ |
| characteristic |
fossorial lifestyle
ⓘ
primitive cranial morphology among rodents ⓘ robust body ⓘ short tail ⓘ simple cheek teeth ⓘ |
| class | Mammalia ⓘ |
| commonName | mountain beaver family ⓘ |
| conservationConcern | habitat loss in parts of range ⓘ |
| containsTaxon |
Aplodontia rufa
ⓘ
surface form:
Aplodontia
Aplodontia rufa ⓘ |
| describedAs | primitive rodents ⓘ |
| diet | herbivorous ⓘ |
| fossilRecord | extends to at least the Oligocene ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution | western North America ⓘ |
| habitat |
burrows
ⓘ
moist forested environments ⓘ |
| includesSpecies | mountain beaver ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| locomotion | digging and burrowing ⓘ |
| namedBy | John Edward Gray ⓘ |
| nativeRange |
Pacific Northwest
ⓘ
surface form:
Pacific Northwest of North America
|
| order | Rodentia ⓘ |
| phylogeneticPosition | basal within Rodentia ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Sciuridae ⓘ |
| reproduction | placental mammals ⓘ |
| suborder | Sciuromorpha ⓘ |
| superfamily | Aplodontoidea ⓘ |
| taxonRank | family ⓘ |
| typeGenus |
Aplodontiidae
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Aplodontia
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How these facts were elicited
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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: Aplodontiidae Description of subject: Aplodontiidae is a family of primitive rodents best known for the mountain beaver, a burrowing species native to the Pacific Northwest of North America.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Aplodontia