Amphiliidae
E230183
Amphiliidae is a family of small, bottom-dwelling catfishes native primarily to fast-flowing freshwater streams and rivers in Africa.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Amphiliidae canonical | 30 |
| Amphiliinae | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2045460 — 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: Amphiliidae Context triple: [Siluriformes, contains, Amphiliidae]
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A.
Oceanitidae
Oceanitidae is a family of small seabirds known as southern storm petrels, typically found over open oceans in the Southern Hemisphere.
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B.
Nandiniidae
Nandiniidae is a small family of African carnivorous mammals best known for the African palm civet, a solitary, arboreal species with a cat-like appearance.
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C.
Sagittariidae
Sagittariidae is a small bird family best known for the secretarybird, a distinctive long-legged raptor native to sub-Saharan Africa.
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D.
Prunellidae
Prunellidae is a family of small, primarily Eurasian passerine birds known as accentors, which inhabit montane and temperate habitats.
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E.
Anhimidae
Anhimidae is a small family of South American birds known as screamers, characterized by their large size, loud calls, and partially webbed feet, and are closely related to ducks and geese.
- 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: Amphiliidae Target entity description: Amphiliidae is a family of small, bottom-dwelling catfishes native primarily to fast-flowing freshwater streams and rivers in Africa.
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A.
Balitoridae
Balitoridae is a family of small, bottom-dwelling freshwater loaches commonly found in fast-flowing streams of Asia and adapted to cling to rocks in strong currents.
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B.
Danionidae
Danionidae is a family of small freshwater ray-finned fishes, including popular aquarium species like danios and rasboras, found primarily in South and Southeast Asia.
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C.
Oceanitidae
Oceanitidae is a family of small seabirds known as southern storm petrels, typically found over open oceans in the Southern Hemisphere.
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D.
Nandiniidae
Nandiniidae is a small family of African carnivorous mammals best known for the African palm civet, a solitary, arboreal species with a cat-like appearance.
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E.
Sagittariidae
Sagittariidae is a small bird family best known for the secretarybird, a distinctive long-legged raptor native to sub-Saharan Africa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fish family
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| bodySize | small ⓘ |
| class | Actinopterygii ⓘ |
| commonName | loach catfishes ⓘ |
| containsGenus |
Amphilius
ⓘ
Andersonia ⓘ Belonoglanis ⓘ Congoglanis ⓘ Doumea ⓘ Leptoglanis ⓘ Paramphilius ⓘ
linked to:
Amphilius
Phractura ⓘ Psammphiletria ⓘ Tetracamphilius ⓘ Trachyglanis ⓘ Zaireichthys ⓘ |
| containsSubfamily |
Amphiliinae
ⓘ
linked to:
Amphiliidae
Doumeinae ⓘ Leptoglanidinae ⓘ |
| diet |
benthic invertebrates
ⓘ
insect larvae ⓘ small aquatic organisms ⓘ |
| distribution |
sub-Saharan Africa
ⓘ
linked to:
Sub-Saharan Africa
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| ecologicalNiche | bottom-dwelling catfish ⓘ |
| foundIn |
clear, well-oxygenated waters
ⓘ
mountain streams ⓘ |
| habitat |
fast-flowing streams
ⓘ
freshwater ⓘ riffles ⓘ rivers ⓘ streams ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
adaptations for fast-flowing water
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barbels around mouth ⓘ cryptic coloration ⓘ depressed head ⓘ elongate body ⓘ reduced swim bladder in many species ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| lifestyle | benthic ⓘ |
| nativeTo | Africa ⓘ |
| order | Siluriformes ⓘ |
| partOf | African freshwater fish fauna ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| recognizedBy | Ichthyologists ⓘ |
| reproduction | egg-laying ⓘ |
| taxonRank | family ⓘ |
| waterType | freshwater ⓘ |
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: Amphiliidae Description of subject: Amphiliidae is a family of small, bottom-dwelling catfishes native primarily to fast-flowing freshwater streams and rivers in Africa.
Referenced by (31)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Amphiliidae