Camptosaurus
E686178
Camptosaurus is a genus of herbivorous, beaked ornithopod dinosaurs from the Late Jurassic of North America, known for its relatively robust build and ability to walk on both two and four legs.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Camptosaurus canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7748070 — 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: Camptosaurus Context triple: [Edward Drinker Cope, describedTaxa, Camptosaurus]
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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.
Daspletosaurus
Daspletosaurus was a large, carnivorous tyrannosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of North America, known as a powerful apex predator with a massive skull and robust teeth.
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C.
Camarasaurus
Camarasaurus was a large, long-necked herbivorous sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic period of North America.
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D.
Thescelosaurus neglectus
Thescelosaurus neglectus is a small, herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of North America, known for its robust limbs and association with some of the last dinosaur faunas before the mass extinction.
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E.
Alamosaurus
Alamosaurus is a large, long-necked sauropod dinosaur from Late Cretaceous North America, known as one of the last and largest dinosaurs to have lived there before the mass extinction.
- 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: Camptosaurus Target entity description: Camptosaurus is a genus of herbivorous, beaked ornithopod dinosaurs from the Late Jurassic of North America, known for its relatively robust build and ability to walk on both two and four legs.
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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.
Daspletosaurus
Daspletosaurus was a large, carnivorous tyrannosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of North America, known as a powerful apex predator with a massive skull and robust teeth.
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C.
Camarasaurus
Camarasaurus was a large, long-necked herbivorous sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic period of North America.
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D.
Thescelosaurus neglectus
Thescelosaurus neglectus is a small, herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of North America, known for its robust limbs and association with some of the last dinosaur faunas before the mass extinction.
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E.
Alamosaurus
Alamosaurus is a large, long-necked sauropod dinosaur from Late Cretaceous North America, known as one of the last and largest dinosaurs to have lived there before the mass extinction.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dinosaur genus
ⓘ
herbivorous dinosaur ⓘ ornithopod ⓘ |
| approximateLength |
5 meters
ⓘ
6 meters ⓘ |
| approximateMass |
1000 kilograms
ⓘ
500 kilograms ⓘ |
| bodyBuild | relatively robust ⓘ |
| clade |
Dinosauria
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ornithopoda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| diet | herbivorous ⓘ |
| ecologicalNiche | medium-sized herbivore ⓘ |
| family | Camptosauridae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| feedingAdaptation | beaked snout for cropping vegetation ⓘ |
| firstDescribedBy | Othniel Charles Marsh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| forelimbFunction | weight-bearing during quadrupedal locomotion ⓘ |
| fossilCountry | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fossilSite | Morrison Formation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fossilStateOrRegion |
Colorado
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
South Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ Utah NERFINISHED ⓘ Wyoming NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geologicalAge |
Kimmeridgian
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tithonian ⓘ |
| habitat | terrestrial ⓘ |
| hasAnatomicalFeature |
beak
ⓘ
leaf-shaped teeth ⓘ long tail ⓘ robust hind limbs ⓘ short forelimbs ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| livedIn | Jurassic North America ⓘ |
| locomotion |
facultative biped
ⓘ
quadrupedal ⓘ |
| namedBy | Othniel Charles Marsh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| order | Ornithischia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| posture | semi-bipedal ⓘ |
| reproduction | oviparous ⓘ |
| tailFunction | counterbalance during bipedal locomotion ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| temporalRange | Late Jurassic ⓘ |
| toothFunction | grinding plant material ⓘ |
| typeSpecies | Camptosaurus dispar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearDescribed | 1879 ⓘ |
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: Camptosaurus Description of subject: Camptosaurus is a genus of herbivorous, beaked ornithopod dinosaurs from the Late Jurassic of North America, known for its relatively robust build and ability to walk on both two and four legs.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.