Erignathus

E660845

genus seal species taxon

Erignathus is a genus of large Arctic seals in the family Phocidae, best known for the bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus).

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Erignathus canonical	1

Statements (39)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	genus ⓘ seal ⓘ species ⓘ taxon ⓘ
belongsTo	marine fauna of the Arctic ⓘ
breathes	air ⓘ
class	Mammalia ⓘ
commonName	bearded seal ⓘ bearded seals ⓘ
diet	benthic invertebrates ⓘ carnivorous ⓘ fish ⓘ
distribution	circumpolar Arctic ⓘ
ecologicalRole	benthic feeder ⓘ predator ⓘ
family	Phocidae NERFINISHED ⓘ Phocidae NERFINISHED ⓘ
genus	Erignathus NERFINISHED ⓘ
habitat	Arctic Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ subarctic seas ⓘ
hasCharacteristic	large body size ⓘ marine mammal ⓘ true seal ⓘ
hasCommonNameForSpecies	bearded seal ⓘ
includesTaxon	Erignathus barbatus NERFINISHED ⓘ
infraorder	Pinnipedia NERFINISHED ⓘ Pinnipedia NERFINISHED ⓘ
kingdom	Animalia ⓘ
locomotion	aquatic ⓘ
memberOf	Phocidae NERFINISHED ⓘ
nativeTo	Arctic region ⓘ
notableFor	bearded seal ⓘ
order	Carnivora ⓘ Carnivora ⓘ
phylum	Chordata ⓘ
reproduction	viviparous ⓘ
suborder	Caniformia NERFINISHED ⓘ
taxonRank	genus ⓘ species ⓘ

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: Erignathus
Description of subject: Erignathus is a genus of large Arctic seals in the family Phocidae, best known for the bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus).

Referenced by (1)

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

Phocidae → containsTaxon → Erignathus ⓘ