Ornithorhynchidae
E721098
Ornithorhynchidae is a family of egg-laying mammals best known for the platypus, a semi-aquatic species with a duck-like bill native to eastern Australia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ornithorhynchidae canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8255474 — 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: Ornithorhynchidae Context triple: [Monotremata, includes, Ornithorhynchidae]
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A.
Ornithorhynchus anatinus
Ornithorhynchus anatinus, commonly known as the platypus, is a semi-aquatic egg-laying mammal native to eastern Australia, notable for its duck-like bill, webbed feet, and venomous spurs.
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B.
Monotremata
Monotremata is an order of egg-laying mammals, including the platypus and echidnas, that represent one of the most primitive living branches of the mammalian lineage.
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C.
Paradoxornithidae
Paradoxornithidae is a family of small, often long-tailed passerine birds known as parrotbills, primarily found in Asia and adapted to dense reedbeds and scrub habitats.
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D.
Casuariiformes
Casuariiformes is an order of large, flightless birds that includes cassowaries and emus, native primarily to Australia and New Guinea.
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E.
Araeoscelidia
Araeoscelidia is an extinct group of early, lizard-like diapsid reptiles known from the Late Carboniferous and Early Permian periods and considered among the earliest representatives of the diapsid lineage.
- 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: Ornithorhynchidae Target entity description: Ornithorhynchidae is a family of egg-laying mammals best known for the platypus, a semi-aquatic species with a duck-like bill native to eastern Australia.
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A.
Ornithorhynchus anatinus
Ornithorhynchus anatinus, commonly known as the platypus, is a semi-aquatic egg-laying mammal native to eastern Australia, notable for its duck-like bill, webbed feet, and venomous spurs.
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B.
Monotremata
Monotremata is an order of egg-laying mammals, including the platypus and echidnas, that represent one of the most primitive living branches of the mammalian lineage.
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C.
Paradoxornithidae
Paradoxornithidae is a family of small, often long-tailed passerine birds known as parrotbills, primarily found in Asia and adapted to dense reedbeds and scrub habitats.
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D.
Casuariiformes
Casuariiformes is an order of large, flightless birds that includes cassowaries and emus, native primarily to Australia and New Guinea.
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E.
Araeoscelidia
Araeoscelidia is an extinct group of early, lizard-like diapsid reptiles known from the Late Carboniferous and Early Permian periods and considered among the earliest representatives of the diapsid lineage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | mammal family ⓘ |
| activityPattern |
crepuscular
ⓘ
nocturnal ⓘ |
| belongsToClade | monotremes ⓘ |
| class | Mammalia ⓘ |
| commonName | platypus family ⓘ |
| containsTaxon | Ornithorhynchus anatinus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| diet |
carnivorous
ⓘ
insectivorous ⓘ |
| eggLaying | true ⓘ |
| endemicTo |
Australia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tasmania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| extantRepresentative | Ornithorhynchus anatinus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geologicalTimeOfOrigin | Cretaceous period ⓘ |
| habitat |
freshwater rivers and streams
ⓘ
lakes ⓘ semi-aquatic environments ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
dense waterproof fur
ⓘ
duck-like bill ⓘ electroreception in bill ⓘ venomous spur in males ⓘ webbed feet ⓘ |
| hasJawType |
keratinous grinding plates in adults
ⓘ
toothless adults ⓘ |
| hasReproductiveFeature |
lack of nipples
ⓘ
lays small leathery eggs ⓘ milk secreted through mammary gland openings on skin ⓘ |
| hasSensoryAdaptation |
electroreceptors in bill
ⓘ
mechanoreceptors in bill ⓘ |
| hasSkullType | synapsid ⓘ |
| hasVertebralColumn | true ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| locomotion |
burrowing
ⓘ
swimming ⓘ |
| nativeRange |
Tasmania
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
eastern Australia ⓘ |
| notableMember | platypus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| order | Monotremata NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproductionType | oviparous ⓘ |
| respiration | lungs ⓘ |
| subclass | Prototheria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| taxonRank | family ⓘ |
| typeGenus | Ornithorhynchus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| warmBlooded | true ⓘ |
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: Ornithorhynchidae Description of subject: Ornithorhynchidae is a family of egg-laying mammals best known for the platypus, a semi-aquatic species with a duck-like bill native to eastern Australia.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.