Myomorpha
E203707
Myomorpha is a major suborder of rodents that includes mice, rats, gerbils, hamsters, and related small, typically omnivorous mammals characterized by specialized jaw and tooth structures.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Myomorpha canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1772460 — 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: Myomorpha Context triple: [Rodentia, hasSuborder, Myomorpha]
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A.
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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B.
Hystricognathi
Hystricognathi is a major suborder of rodents that includes porcupines, guinea pigs, capybaras, and related species characterized by a distinctive jaw and skull structure.
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C.
Sciuromorpha
Sciuromorpha is a rodent suborder that primarily includes squirrels and their close relatives, characterized by specialized jaw and skull adaptations for gnawing.
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D.
Rodentia
Rodentia is the largest order of mammals, comprising rodents such as mice, rats, squirrels, and beavers, characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each jaw.
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E.
Laurasiatheria
Laurasiatheria is a major clade of placental mammals that includes diverse groups such as hoofed mammals, carnivores, bats, and shrews, thought to have originated on the ancient supercontinent Laurasia.
- 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: Myomorpha Target entity description: Myomorpha is a major suborder of rodents that includes mice, rats, gerbils, hamsters, and related small, typically omnivorous mammals characterized by specialized jaw and tooth structures.
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A.
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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B.
Hystricognathi
Hystricognathi is a major suborder of rodents that includes porcupines, guinea pigs, capybaras, and related species characterized by a distinctive jaw and skull structure.
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C.
Sciuromorpha
Sciuromorpha is a rodent suborder that primarily includes squirrels and their close relatives, characterized by specialized jaw and skull adaptations for gnawing.
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D.
Rodentia
Rodentia is the largest order of mammals, comprising rodents such as mice, rats, squirrels, and beavers, characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each jaw.
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E.
Laurasiatheria
Laurasiatheria is a major clade of placental mammals that includes diverse groups such as hoofed mammals, carnivores, bats, and shrews, thought to have originated on the ancient supercontinent Laurasia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
suborder of mammals
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suborder of rodents ⓘ taxon ⓘ |
| belongsToClade | Glires ⓘ |
| characterizedBy |
elongated incisors
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myomorphous zygomatic arch ⓘ specialized jaw musculature ⓘ specialized tooth structure ⓘ |
| class | Mammalia ⓘ |
| commonHabitat |
deserts
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forests ⓘ grasslands ⓘ terrestrial habitats ⓘ |
| containsFamily |
Calomyscidae
ⓘ
Cricetidae ⓘ Dipodidae ⓘ Muridae ⓘ Nesomyidae ⓘ Leithiinae ⓘ
surface form:
Platacanthomyidae
Spalacidae ⓘ |
| diet | omnivorous ⓘ |
| dominantActivityPattern | nocturnal ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole |
prey for many predators
ⓘ
seed dispersers ⓘ |
| hasSubclade |
Dipodoidea
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Muroidea ⓘ |
| includes |
New World rats and mice
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Old World rats and mice ⓘ deer mice ⓘ gerbils ⓘ hamsters ⓘ jerboas ⓘ lemmings ⓘ mice ⓘ rats ⓘ spiny mice ⓘ voles ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| locomotion | quadrupedal ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
ever-growing incisors
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high reproductive rate ⓘ |
| order | Rodentia ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproduction |
typically multiple litters per year
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viviparous ⓘ |
| sensoryAdaptation | well-developed vibrissae ⓘ |
| superorder | Euarchontoglires ⓘ |
| taxonRank | suborder ⓘ |
| typicalBodySize | small mammal ⓘ |
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: Myomorpha Description of subject: Myomorpha is a major suborder of rodents that includes mice, rats, gerbils, hamsters, and related small, typically omnivorous mammals characterized by specialized jaw and tooth structures.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.