Saltasauridae
E370005
Saltasauridae is a family of small to medium-sized, heavily armored titanosaurs known from the Late Cretaceous and characterized by bony plates (osteoderms) embedded in their skin.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Saltasauridae canonical | 3 |
| Saltasaurus | 1 |
| Titanosauridae | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3524154 — 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: Saltasauridae Context triple: [Titanosauria, includesSubgroup, Saltasauridae]
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A.
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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B.
Herrerasauria
Herrerasauria is a group of early, primitive predatory dinosaurs from the Late Triassic that are among the oldest known representatives of the theropod lineage.
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C.
Nodosauridae
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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D.
Camarasaurus
Camarasaurus was a large, long-necked herbivorous sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic period of North America.
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E.
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.
- 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: Saltasauridae Target entity description: Saltasauridae is a family of small to medium-sized, heavily armored titanosaurs known from the Late Cretaceous and characterized by bony plates (osteoderms) embedded in their skin.
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A.
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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B.
Herrerasauria
Herrerasauria is a group of early, primitive predatory dinosaurs from the Late Triassic that are among the oldest known representatives of the theropod lineage.
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C.
Nodosauridae
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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D.
Camarasaurus
Camarasaurus was a large, long-necked herbivorous sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic period of North America.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
clade
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dinosaur family ⓘ taxonomic family ⓘ |
| bodySize | small to medium-sized sauropods ⓘ |
| defensiveAdaptation | dermal armor against predators ⓘ |
| diet | herbivorous ⓘ |
| distinctiveFeature |
bony plates embedded in skin
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heavily armored body ⓘ osteoderms in dermis ⓘ relatively short necks for sauropods ⓘ robust limbs ⓘ |
| eggs | laid in nests ⓘ |
| extinction | end-Cretaceous mass extinction ⓘ |
| feedingStrategy | low to mid-height browsing ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Late Cretaceous ⓘ |
| fossilDistribution |
Africa
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Asia ⓘ Europe ⓘ North America ⓘ South America ⓘ |
| fossilType |
eggs and nests
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osteoderms ⓘ skeletal remains ⓘ |
| geologicalPeriod | Cretaceous ⓘ |
| includedIn | Titanosauriformes ⓘ |
| knownFrom |
Argentina
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France ⓘ Madagascar ⓘ Mongolia ⓘ Romania ⓘ Spain ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| lifestyle | terrestrial ⓘ |
| locomotion | quadrupedal ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Saltasaurus ⓘ |
| parentTaxon |
Dinosauria
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Ornithischia ⓘ Saurischia ⓘ Sauropoda ⓘ Titanosauria ⓘ |
| representativeGenus |
Alamosaurus
ⓘ
Bonatitan ⓘ Saltasaurus ⓘ
surface form:
Neuquensaurus
Opisthocoelicaudia ⓘ Rocasaurus ⓘ Saltasaurus ⓘ |
| reproduction | oviparous ⓘ |
| taxonRank | family ⓘ |
| temporalRange | Late Cretaceous ⓘ |
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: Saltasauridae Description of subject: Saltasauridae is a family of small to medium-sized, heavily armored titanosaurs known from the Late Cretaceous and characterized by bony plates (osteoderms) embedded in their skin.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Saltasaurus
this entity surface form:
Titanosauridae