Nodosauridae
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Nodosauridae is a family of heavily armored, herbivorous ankylosaurian dinosaurs characterized by bony plates and spikes but lacking tail clubs, known from the Late Jurassic to Late Cretaceous.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ankylosauria | 6 |
| Nodosauridae canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3502410 — 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: Nodosauridae Context triple: [Hell Creek Formation, containsFossil, Nodosauridae]
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A.
Dryosaurus
Dryosaurus was a small, fast, plant-eating ornithopod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic period, known for its long legs and lightweight build.
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B.
Titanosauria
Titanosauria is a diverse clade of large, long-necked sauropod dinosaurs that includes some of the heaviest and most massive land animals known from the fossil record.
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C.
Pachycephalidae
Pachycephalidae is a family of passerine birds, commonly known as whistlers and their allies, found mainly in Australasia and noted for their strong, melodious vocalizations.
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D.
Allosauridae
Allosauridae is a family of large, carnivorous theropod dinosaurs that includes the well-known predator Allosaurus and its close relatives from the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous periods.
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E.
Othnielosaurus
Othnielosaurus is a small, bipedal ornithischian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of North America, known for its lightly built body and herbivorous diet.
- 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: Nodosauridae Target entity description: Nodosauridae is a family of heavily armored, herbivorous ankylosaurian dinosaurs characterized by bony plates and spikes but lacking tail clubs, known from the Late Jurassic to Late Cretaceous.
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A.
Dryosaurus
Dryosaurus was a small, fast, plant-eating ornithopod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic period, known for its long legs and lightweight build.
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B.
Titanosauria
Titanosauria is a diverse clade of large, long-necked sauropod dinosaurs that includes some of the heaviest and most massive land animals known from the fossil record.
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C.
Pachycephalidae
Pachycephalidae is a family of passerine birds, commonly known as whistlers and their allies, found mainly in Australasia and noted for their strong, melodious vocalizations.
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D.
Allosauridae
Allosauridae is a family of large, carnivorous theropod dinosaurs that includes the well-known predator Allosaurus and its close relatives from the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous periods.
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E.
Othnielosaurus
Othnielosaurus is a small, bipedal ornithischian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of North America, known for its lightly built body and herbivorous diet.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ankylosaurian
ⓘ
dinosaur family ⓘ taxonomic family ⓘ |
| armorDistribution |
dorsal armor
ⓘ
flank armor ⓘ |
| bodyArmor | heavily armored ⓘ |
| clade | Dinosauria ⓘ |
| class | Reptilia ⓘ |
| defensiveAdaptation |
body armor
ⓘ
lateral spikes ⓘ |
| diet | herbivorous ⓘ |
| feedingAdaptation | leaf-shaped teeth ⓘ |
| fossilType |
body fossils
ⓘ
skin impressions ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution |
Asia
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Europe ⓘ North America ⓘ South America ⓘ |
| habitat | continental environments ⓘ |
| hasAnatomicalFeature |
bony plates
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osteoderms ⓘ spikes ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| lacksAnatomicalFeature | tail club ⓘ |
| lifestyle | terrestrial ⓘ |
| locomotion | quadrupedal ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Nodosaurus ⓘ |
| notableMember |
Borealopelta
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Edmontonia ⓘ Europelta ⓘ Nodosaurus ⓘ Panoplosaurus ⓘ Sauropelta ⓘ Struthiosaurus ⓘ |
| parentTaxon |
Nodosauridae
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Ankylosauria
Ornithischia ⓘ Ornithischia ⓘ
surface form:
Thyreophora
|
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| regionOfStudy | vertebrate paleontology ⓘ |
| suborder |
Nodosauridae
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Ankylosauria
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| tailMorphology | long tail without club ⓘ |
| taxonAuthor | Othniel Charles Marsh ⓘ |
| taxonRank | family ⓘ |
| taxonStatus | extinct ⓘ |
| temporalRangeEnd | Late Cretaceous ⓘ |
| temporalRangeStart | Late Jurassic ⓘ |
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: Nodosauridae Description of subject: Nodosauridae is a family of heavily armored, herbivorous ankylosaurian dinosaurs characterized by bony plates and spikes but lacking tail clubs, known from the Late Jurassic to Late Cretaceous.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ankylosauria
this entity surface form:
Ankylosauria
this entity surface form:
Ankylosauria
this entity surface form:
Ankylosauria
this entity surface form:
Ankylosauria
this entity surface form:
Ankylosauria