California tiger salamander
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The California tiger salamander is a large, secretive, black-and-yellow spotted amphibian native to California’s grasslands and vernal pool ecosystems, where it spends most of its life underground and is considered a threatened species.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| California tiger salamander canonical | 2 |
| Ambystoma californiense | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T845122 — 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: California tiger salamander Context triple: [Gabilan Range, habitatFor, California tiger salamander]
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A.
California red-legged frog
The California red-legged frog is a threatened amphibian native to California and the largest native frog in the western United States, known for its distinctive reddish hind legs and association with coastal and foothill habitats.
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B.
Sonoran Desert toad
The Sonoran Desert toad, also known as the Colorado River toad, is a large, nocturnal amphibian native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, noted for the potent psychoactive toxins in its skin secretions.
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C.
Panamanian golden frog
The Panamanian golden frog is a critically endangered, brightly colored toad species endemic to Panama, renowned for its cultural significance and distinctive toxin-laden skin.
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D.
Atelopus
Atelopus is a genus of brightly colored, often highly endangered neotropical toads commonly known as harlequin frogs.
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E.
Gila monster
The Gila monster is a large, slow-moving venomous lizard native to the arid regions of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.
- 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: California tiger salamander Target entity description: The California tiger salamander is a large, secretive, black-and-yellow spotted amphibian native to California’s grasslands and vernal pool ecosystems, where it spends most of its life underground and is considered a threatened species.
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A.
California red-legged frog
The California red-legged frog is a threatened amphibian native to California and the largest native frog in the western United States, known for its distinctive reddish hind legs and association with coastal and foothill habitats.
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B.
Sonoran Desert toad
The Sonoran Desert toad, also known as the Colorado River toad, is a large, nocturnal amphibian native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, noted for the potent psychoactive toxins in its skin secretions.
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C.
Panamanian golden frog
The Panamanian golden frog is a critically endangered, brightly colored toad species endemic to Panama, renowned for its cultural significance and distinctive toxin-laden skin.
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D.
Atelopus
Atelopus is a genus of brightly colored, often highly endangered neotropical toads commonly known as harlequin frogs.
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E.
Gila monster
The Gila monster is a large, slow-moving venomous lizard native to the arid regions of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
amphibian
ⓘ
mole salamander ⓘ vertebrate ⓘ |
| activityPattern | nocturnal ⓘ |
| behavior | fossorial ⓘ |
| binomialName |
California tiger salamander
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Ambystoma californiense
|
| breedingSeason |
early spring
ⓘ
winter ⓘ |
| class | Amphibia ⓘ |
| color | black ⓘ |
| commonName | California tiger salamander ⓘ |
| conservationStatus | Vulnerable ⓘ |
| conservationStatusSystem |
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
ⓘ
surface form:
IUCN Red List
|
| diet |
insects
ⓘ
invertebrates ⓘ small crustaceans ⓘ worms ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole |
predator of aquatic invertebrates
ⓘ
prey for larger vertebrates ⓘ |
| endemicTo |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| family | Ambystomatidae ⓘ |
| genus | Ambystoma ⓘ |
| habitat |
burrows of small mammals
ⓘ
grasslands ⓘ seasonal ponds ⓘ vernal pools ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| lifeStage |
aquatic larva
ⓘ
terrestrial adult ⓘ |
| listedAs | threatened species ⓘ |
| listedUnder | U.S. Endangered Species Act ⓘ |
| morphology |
large head
ⓘ
relatively short limbs ⓘ stout body ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| order | Urodela ⓘ |
| pattern | yellow spots ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| range |
Central Valley
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Valley of California
Coastal ranges of California ⓘ |
| reproduction | lays eggs in seasonal ponds ⓘ |
| spendsMostOfLife | underground ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| threat |
agricultural conversion
ⓘ
habitat fragmentation ⓘ habitat loss ⓘ introduced predators ⓘ road mortality ⓘ urban development ⓘ |
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: California tiger salamander Description of subject: The California tiger salamander is a large, secretive, black-and-yellow spotted amphibian native to California’s grasslands and vernal pool ecosystems, where it spends most of its life underground and is considered a threatened species.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ambystoma californiense