Aplodontoidea
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Aplodontoidea is a superfamily of rodents that includes the mountain beaver and its extinct relatives, representing one of the most primitive living rodent lineages.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Aplodontoidea canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8551241 — 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: Aplodontoidea Context triple: [Aplodontiidae, superfamily, Aplodontoidea]
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A.
Otarioidea
Otarioidea is a superfamily of marine mammals that includes the eared seals, such as sea lions and fur seals.
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B.
Pantodontidae
Pantodontidae is a small family of freshwater ray-finned fishes best known for the African butterflyfish, characterized by its wing-like pectoral fins and surface-dwelling lifestyle in African rivers and swamps.
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C.
Zoarcoidei
Zoarcoidei is a suborder of mostly marine ray-finned fishes, commonly known as eelpouts and their relatives, characterized by elongated bodies and a benthic, cold-water lifestyle.
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D.
Pilosa
Pilosa is an order of placental mammals that includes sloths and anteaters, characterized by specialized limbs and diets adapted for arboreal living and insectivory.
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E.
Pontoporiidae
Pontoporiidae is a family of river dolphins best known for the La Plata dolphin (or franciscana), a small, coastal and estuarine cetacean found in South American waters.
- 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: Aplodontoidea Target entity description: Aplodontoidea is a superfamily of rodents that includes the mountain beaver and its extinct relatives, representing one of the most primitive living rodent lineages.
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A.
Otarioidea
Otarioidea is a superfamily of marine mammals that includes the eared seals, such as sea lions and fur seals.
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B.
Pantodontidae
Pantodontidae is a small family of freshwater ray-finned fishes best known for the African butterflyfish, characterized by its wing-like pectoral fins and surface-dwelling lifestyle in African rivers and swamps.
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C.
Zoarcoidei
Zoarcoidei is a suborder of mostly marine ray-finned fishes, commonly known as eelpouts and their relatives, characterized by elongated bodies and a benthic, cold-water lifestyle.
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D.
Pilosa
Pilosa is an order of placental mammals that includes sloths and anteaters, characterized by specialized limbs and diets adapted for arboreal living and insectivory.
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E.
Pontoporiidae
Pontoporiidae is a family of river dolphins best known for the La Plata dolphin (or franciscana), a small, coastal and estuarine cetacean found in South American waters.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mammal superfamily
ⓘ
rodent superfamily ⓘ |
| characterizedAs | one of the most primitive living rodent lineages ⓘ |
| class | Mammalia ⓘ |
| commonName | aplodontoid rodents ⓘ |
| contains |
extant species Aplodontia rufa
ⓘ
multiple extinct genera ⓘ |
| diet | herbivorous ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole | burrowing herbivores ⓘ |
| fossilRecord | extends back to the Paleogene ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution | primarily North America ⓘ |
| hasLivingRepresentative | mountain beaver ⓘ |
| higherClassification |
Eutheria
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Glires NERFINISHED ⓘ Theria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includes |
Aplodontia rufa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Aplodontiidae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includesCommonName | mountain beaver and relatives ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| morphologicalTraits | primitive cranial and dental features among rodents ⓘ |
| notableFor | retention of ancestral rodent characteristics ⓘ |
| order | Rodentia ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Sciuroidea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| suborder | Sciuromorpha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| taxonRank | superfamily ⓘ |
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: Aplodontoidea Description of subject: Aplodontoidea is a superfamily of rodents that includes the mountain beaver and its extinct relatives, representing one of the most primitive living rodent lineages.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.