Neosauropoda
E936803
Neosauropoda is a major clade of advanced sauropod dinosaurs that includes many of the largest land animals in history, such as diplodocids and brachiosaurids.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Neosauropoda canonical | 7 |
| Titanosauriformes | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11516863 — 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: Neosauropoda Context triple: [Apatosaurus, belongsToClade, Neosauropoda]
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A.
Sauropoda
Sauropoda is a major group of long-necked, large-bodied, herbivorous dinosaurs that includes some of the largest land animals in Earth’s history.
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B.
Sauropodomorpha
Sauropodomorpha is a major group of long-necked, mostly herbivorous dinosaurs that includes the giant sauropods and their early relatives.
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C.
Brachiosauridae
Brachiosauridae is a family of large, long-necked sauropod dinosaurs characterized by their forelimbs being longer than their hindlimbs, giving them a distinctive, giraffe-like stance.
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D.
Titanosauria
Titanosauria is a diverse clade of large, long-necked sauropod dinosaurs that includes some of the heaviest and most massive land animals known from the fossil record.
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E.
Diplodocidae
Diplodocidae is a family of long-necked, whip-tailed sauropod dinosaurs that includes some of the largest land animals to have ever lived.
- 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: Neosauropoda Target entity description: Neosauropoda is a major clade of advanced sauropod dinosaurs that includes many of the largest land animals in history, such as diplodocids and brachiosaurids.
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A.
Sauropoda
Sauropoda is a major group of long-necked, large-bodied, herbivorous dinosaurs that includes some of the largest land animals in Earth’s history.
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B.
Sauropodomorpha
Sauropodomorpha is a major group of long-necked, mostly herbivorous dinosaurs that includes the giant sauropods and their early relatives.
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C.
Brachiosauridae
Brachiosauridae is a family of large, long-necked sauropod dinosaurs characterized by their forelimbs being longer than their hindlimbs, giving them a distinctive, giraffe-like stance.
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D.
Titanosauria
Titanosauria is a diverse clade of large, long-necked sauropod dinosaurs that includes some of the heaviest and most massive land animals known from the fossil record.
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E.
Diplodocidae
Diplodocidae is a family of long-necked, whip-tailed sauropod dinosaurs that includes some of the largest land animals to have ever lived.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dinosaur clade
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sauropod clade ⓘ taxon ⓘ |
| containsSomeOfLargest | terrestrial animals in Earth history ⓘ |
| definingFeature |
advanced limb bone adaptations for supporting large body size
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complex vertebral pneumaticity ⓘ enlarged narial openings ⓘ reduced number of teeth in the lower jaw ⓘ |
| diet | herbivorous ⓘ |
| etymology | Greek for "new sauropods" ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Middle Jurassic ⓘ |
| fossilRecord |
Africa
NERFINISHED
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Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ North America NERFINISHED ⓘ South America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution | global ⓘ |
| includesTaxon |
Apatosaurus
NERFINISHED
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Argentinosaurus NERFINISHED ⓘ Brachiosauridae NERFINISHED ⓘ Brachiosaurus NERFINISHED ⓘ Camarasauridae NERFINISHED ⓘ Camarasaurus NERFINISHED ⓘ Dicraeosauridae NERFINISHED ⓘ Diplodocidae NERFINISHED ⓘ Diplodocoidea NERFINISHED ⓘ Diplodocus NERFINISHED ⓘ Dreadnoughtus NERFINISHED ⓘ Macronaria NERFINISHED ⓘ Patagotitan NERFINISHED ⓘ Rebbachisauridae NERFINISHED ⓘ Supersaurus NERFINISHED ⓘ Titanosauria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lastAppearance | Late Cretaceous NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locomotion | quadrupedal ⓘ |
| namedBy | José Fernando Bonaparte NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parentTaxon | Sauropoda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Archosauria
NERFINISHED
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Dinosauria NERFINISHED ⓘ Ornithoscelida NERFINISHED ⓘ Reptilia NERFINISHED ⓘ Saurischia NERFINISHED ⓘ Sauropoda NERFINISHED ⓘ Tetrapoda NERFINISHED ⓘ Vertebrata ⓘ |
| taxonRank | clade ⓘ |
| temporalRangeEnd | end of Cretaceous ⓘ |
| temporalRangeStart | Middle Jurassic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearNamed | 1986 ⓘ |
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: Neosauropoda Description of subject: Neosauropoda is a major clade of advanced sauropod dinosaurs that includes many of the largest land animals in history, such as diplodocids and brachiosaurids.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Titanosauriformes
this entity surface form:
Titanosauriformes