Halichoerus

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genus species taxon

Halichoerus is a genus of large earless seals best known for the gray seal, a prominent marine mammal of the North Atlantic.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Halichoerus canonical	3

Statements (41)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	genus ⓘ species ⓘ taxon ⓘ
breathing	air-breathing mammal ⓘ
class	Mammalia ⓘ Mammalia ⓘ
commonName	gray seal ⓘ gray seal genus ⓘ grey seal ⓘ
containsTaxon	Halichoerus grypus NERFINISHED ⓘ
describedBy	Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber NERFINISHED ⓘ
diet	carnivorous ⓘ
distribution	North Atlantic Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ
domain	Eukarya ⓘ surface form: Eukaryota
ecologicalRole	marine predator ⓘ
family	Phocidae NERFINISHED ⓘ Phocidae NERFINISHED ⓘ
firstDescriptionYear	1792 ⓘ
habitat	North Atlantic Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ coastal waters ⓘ marine ⓘ
hasCharacteristic	lack of external ear flaps ⓘ large body size ⓘ streamlined body for swimming ⓘ
kingdom	Animalia ⓘ
locomotion	swimming with hind flippers ⓘ
memberOf	earless seals ⓘ true seals ⓘ
namedAfter	Greek words for "sea pig" ⓘ
order	Carnivora ⓘ Carnivora ⓘ
parentTaxon	Halichoerus NERFINISHED ⓘ Phocidae NERFINISHED ⓘ
phylum	Chordata ⓘ
reproduction	gives birth on land or ice ⓘ nurses pups with rich milk ⓘ
sensoryAdaptation	vibrissae for detecting prey ⓘ
subfamily	Phocinae NERFINISHED ⓘ
taxonRank	genus ⓘ
typicalPrey	cephalopods ⓘ fish ⓘ

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: Halichoerus
Description of subject: Halichoerus is a genus of large earless seals best known for the gray seal, a prominent marine mammal of the North Atlantic.

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Phocidae → containsTaxon → Halichoerus ⓘ

Atlantic grey seal → parentTaxon → Halichoerus ⓘ

subject surface form: Halichoerus grypus

Atlantic grey seal → genus → Halichoerus ⓘ