Dasypodidae
E721106
Dasypodidae is the biological family comprising the living armadillos, small to medium-sized armored mammals native mainly to the Americas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dasypodidae canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8255593 — 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: Dasypodidae Context triple: [Xenarthra, hasLivingFamilies, Dasypodidae]
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A.
Apodidae
Apodidae is a family of highly aerial birds known as swifts, characterized by their slender bodies, long wings, and exceptional flying abilities.
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B.
Tubulidentata
Tubulidentata is an order of African mammals best known for the aardvark, characterized by specialized tubular teeth and adaptations for feeding on ants and termites.
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C.
Congiopodidae
Congiopodidae is a family of marine ray-finned fishes, commonly known as pigfishes or horsefishes, found mainly in temperate coastal waters of the Southern Hemisphere.
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D.
Mukupirnidae
Mukupirnidae is an extinct family of ancient Australian marsupials known from fossil remains and classified within the vombatiform lineage that includes wombats and their relatives.
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E.
Tarsipedidae
Tarsipedidae is a small marsupial family best known for the honey possum, a tiny nectar-feeding mammal native to southwestern Australia.
- 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: Dasypodidae Target entity description: Dasypodidae is the biological family comprising the living armadillos, small to medium-sized armored mammals native mainly to the Americas.
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A.
Apodidae
Apodidae is a family of highly aerial birds known as swifts, characterized by their slender bodies, long wings, and exceptional flying abilities.
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B.
Tubulidentata
Tubulidentata is an order of African mammals best known for the aardvark, characterized by specialized tubular teeth and adaptations for feeding on ants and termites.
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C.
Congiopodidae
Congiopodidae is a family of marine ray-finned fishes, commonly known as pigfishes or horsefishes, found mainly in temperate coastal waters of the Southern Hemisphere.
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D.
Mukupirnidae
Mukupirnidae is an extinct family of ancient Australian marsupials known from fossil remains and classified within the vombatiform lineage that includes wombats and their relatives.
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E.
Tarsipedidae
Tarsipedidae is a small marsupial family best known for the honey possum, a tiny nectar-feeding mammal native to southwestern Australia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | mammal family ⓘ |
| belongsToClade | Xenarthra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characteristic |
bony armor shell
ⓘ
elongated snout ⓘ powerful digging claws ⓘ small to medium body size ⓘ |
| class | Mammalia ⓘ |
| closestExtantRelatives |
anteaters
ⓘ
sloths ⓘ |
| commonName | armadillos ⓘ |
| conservationConcern | some species threatened by habitat loss ⓘ |
| diet |
insectivorous
ⓘ
omnivorous ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole |
insect predator
ⓘ
soil bioturbator ⓘ |
| firstScientificDescriptionBy | John Edward Gray NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstScientificDescriptionYear | 1821 ⓘ |
| habitat |
forests
ⓘ
grasslands ⓘ savannas ⓘ scrublands ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Calyptophractus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chaetophractus NERFINISHED ⓘ Chlamyphorus NERFINISHED ⓘ Dasypus NERFINISHED ⓘ Euphractus NERFINISHED ⓘ Priodontes NERFINISHED ⓘ Tolypeutes NERFINISHED ⓘ Zaedyus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableSpecies |
Dasypus novemcinctus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Priodontes maximus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| infraclass | Eutheria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| locomotion | quadrupedal ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Americas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Central America ⓘ North America ⓘ South America ⓘ |
| order | Cingulata NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproduction | placental ⓘ |
| sensoryAdaptation | well-developed sense of smell ⓘ |
| subclass | Theria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| taxonRank | family ⓘ |
| typeGenus | Dasypus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Dasypodidae Description of subject: Dasypodidae is the biological family comprising the living armadillos, small to medium-sized armored mammals native mainly to the Americas.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.