Tiger
E492018
The tiger is a large, powerful carnivorous cat known for its distinctive orange coat with black stripes and its status as an apex predator in Asia.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tiger canonical | 11 |
| Shiva (tiger) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5092889 — 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: Tiger Context triple: [TSU Tigers, mascot, Tiger]
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A.
Tiger
Tiger is a legendary American professional golfer widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the sport.
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B.
Tigers
Tigers is the nickname and mascot used by numerous sports teams, most prominently Louisiana State University’s athletic programs, including the LSU Tigers women’s basketball team.
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C.
Tigers
Tigers is the nickname and mascot used for the athletic teams representing Olivet Nazarene University.
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D.
Tigers
The Tigers are the athletic teams representing the Rochester Institute of Technology in intercollegiate sports.
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E.
Tigers
The Tigers are the athletic teams representing the University of West Alabama in collegiate sports.
- 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: Tiger Target entity description: The tiger is a large, powerful carnivorous cat known for its distinctive orange coat with black stripes and its status as an apex predator in Asia.
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A.
Tiger
Tiger is a legendary American professional golfer widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the sport.
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B.
Tigers
The Tigers are the athletic teams representing the Rochester Institute of Technology in intercollegiate sports.
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C.
Tigers
The Tigers are the athletic teams representing the University of West Alabama in collegiate sports.
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D.
Tigers
The Tigers are the athletic teams of Princeton University, most famously represented by the Princeton Tigers men's basketball program known for its disciplined, strategic style of play.
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E.
Tigers
Tigers is the nickname and mascot used by numerous sports teams, most prominently Louisiana State University’s athletic programs, including the LSU Tigers women’s basketball team.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (63)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
animal
ⓘ
big cat ⓘ mammal ⓘ |
| averageGestationPeriod | about 3.5 months ⓘ |
| averageLitterSize | 2 to 4 cubs ⓘ |
| canSwimWell | true ⓘ |
| class | Mammalia ⓘ |
| conservationStatus | Endangered ⓘ |
| conservationStatusSystem | IUCN Red List NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culturalSignificanceIn |
Chinese culture
ⓘ
Indian culture ⓘ Japanese culture ⓘ Korean culture ⓘ |
| diet | carnivorous ⓘ |
| family | Felidae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genus | Panthera NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCoatColor | orange ⓘ |
| hasPattern | black stripes ⓘ |
| hasSubspecies |
Bengal tiger
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Indochinese tiger NERFINISHED ⓘ Malayan tiger NERFINISHED ⓘ Siberian tiger ⓘ South China tiger NERFINISHED ⓘ Sumatran tiger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isNationalAnimalOf |
Bangladesh
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
India NERFINISHED ⓘ Malaysia NERFINISHED ⓘ South Korea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isNocturnal | primarily ⓘ |
| isSexuallyDimorphic | true ⓘ |
| isSolitary | true ⓘ |
| isTerritorial | true ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| lifespanInCaptivity | up to 20 years or more ⓘ |
| lifespanInWild | 10 to 15 years ⓘ |
| malesLargerThanFemales | true ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Asia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
China NERFINISHED ⓘ India NERFINISHED ⓘ Russian Far East NERFINISHED ⓘ Siberia NERFINISHED ⓘ Southeast Asia ⓘ Sumatra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| order | Carnivora ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| preysOn |
antelope
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buffalo ⓘ deer ⓘ gaur ⓘ wild boar ⓘ |
| scientificName | Panthera tigris ⓘ |
| symbolOf |
courage
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power ⓘ strength ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| threatenedBy |
habitat loss
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human–wildlife conflict ⓘ poaching ⓘ |
| topSpeed | about 49 to 65 km/h ⓘ |
| typicalHabitat |
grassland
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mangrove swamp ⓘ temperate forest ⓘ tropical forest ⓘ |
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: Tiger Description of subject: The tiger is a large, powerful carnivorous cat known for its distinctive orange coat with black stripes and its status as an apex predator in Asia.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Shiva (tiger)