greater kudu
E31842
The greater kudu is a large African antelope species known for its impressive spiral horns and striking white body stripes, commonly found in woodland and savanna habitats.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| greater kudu canonical | 2 |
| kudu | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T248270 — 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: greater kudu Context triple: [Mana Pools National Park, habitatFor, greater kudu]
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A.
Bison
Bison is the official mascot of Howard University, symbolizing the institution’s strength, resilience, and historic legacy.
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B.
Pando
Pando is a sparsely populated, rainforest-covered department in northern Bolivia known for its Amazonian biodiversity and rubber-extraction history.
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C.
Lek
The Lek is a major distributary branch of the Rhine River in the Netherlands, playing an important role in the country’s inland waterway network and flood management system.
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D.
Tebu
Tebu is a Saharan ethnic group and language community primarily inhabiting parts of southern Libya, Chad, and Niger.
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E.
Kawki
Kawki is an indigenous Andean language closely related to Aymara and spoken by a small number of people in Peru.
- 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: greater kudu Target entity description: The greater kudu is a large African antelope species known for its impressive spiral horns and striking white body stripes, commonly found in woodland and savanna habitats.
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A.
Bison
Bison is the official mascot of Howard University, symbolizing the institution’s strength, resilience, and historic legacy.
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B.
Pando
Pando is a sparsely populated, rainforest-covered department in northern Bolivia known for its Amazonian biodiversity and rubber-extraction history.
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C.
Lek
The Lek is a major distributary branch of the Rhine River in the Netherlands, playing an important role in the country’s inland waterway network and flood management system.
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D.
Tebu
Tebu is a Saharan ethnic group and language community primarily inhabiting parts of southern Libya, Chad, and Niger.
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E.
Kawki
Kawki is an indigenous Andean language closely related to Aymara and spoken by a small number of people in Peru.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
antelope
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bovid ⓘ herbivore ⓘ mammal ⓘ |
| activityPattern | mainly crepuscular ⓘ |
| antiPredatorStrategy |
freezing and camouflage in vegetation
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rapid bounding escape ⓘ |
| averageFemaleShoulderHeight | about 1.1 meters ⓘ |
| averageFemaleWeight | 120–210 kilograms ⓘ |
| averageMaleShoulderHeight | about 1.3 meters ⓘ |
| averageMaleWeight | 190–270 kilograms ⓘ |
| binomialName |
Tragelaphus
ⓘ
surface form:
Tragelaphus strepsiceros
|
| class | Mammalia ⓘ |
| coatColor |
brownish gray
ⓘ
reddish brown ⓘ |
| commonName | greater kudu ⓘ |
| diet | browser ⓘ |
| eats |
fruits
ⓘ
grass ⓘ leaves ⓘ shoots ⓘ |
| family | Bovidae ⓘ |
| genus | Tragelaphus ⓘ |
| gestationPeriod | about 8 months ⓘ |
| habitat |
savanna
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thicket ⓘ woodland ⓘ |
| hasDistinctiveFeature |
long spiral horns in males
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vertical white body stripes ⓘ white chevron between the eyes ⓘ |
| hornLength | up to about 1.8 meters along the curve ⓘ |
| IUCNStatus | Least Concern ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| maleBehavior | adult males often solitary or in bachelor groups ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
central Africa
ⓘ
eastern Africa ⓘ Southern Africa ⓘ
surface form:
southern Africa
|
| offspringPerBirth | usually one calf ⓘ |
| order | Artiodactyla ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| predators |
leopards
ⓘ
lions ⓘ spotted hyenas ⓘ |
| sexualDimorphism | males have horns and are larger than females ⓘ |
| socialStructure |
loose groups of females and young
ⓘ
small herds ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| threats |
habitat loss
ⓘ
hunting for meat and trophies ⓘ |
| usedFor |
bushmeat
ⓘ
trophy hunting ⓘ |
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: greater kudu Description of subject: The greater kudu is a large African antelope species known for its impressive spiral horns and striking white body stripes, commonly found in woodland and savanna habitats.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
kudu