Tetraodontidae
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Tetraodontidae is a family of primarily marine and estuarine fishes known as pufferfish, famous for their ability to inflate their bodies and for containing the potent neurotoxin tetrodotoxin.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tetraodontidae canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2361357 — 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: Tetraodontidae Context triple: [Tetraodontiformes, notableFamily, Tetraodontidae]
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Tetraodontiformes
Tetraodontiformes is an order of highly specialized ray-finned fishes that includes pufferfish, triggerfish, boxfish, and their relatives, many of which are known for their unique body shapes and defensive adaptations.
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B.
Scorpaenidae
Scorpaenidae is a family of marine ray-finned fishes that includes scorpionfishes, lionfishes, and stonefishes, many of which are venomous and well-camouflaged.
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C.
Scorpaeniformes
Scorpaeniformes is an order of ray-finned fishes that includes scorpionfishes, lionfishes, rockfishes, and related often venomous, bottom-dwelling marine species.
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D.
Derichthyidae
Derichthyidae is a family of deep-sea eel-like fishes within the order Anguilliformes, commonly known as longneck eels.
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E.
Labroidei
Labroidei is a suborder of mostly marine perciform fishes that includes wrasses, parrotfishes, and cichlids, known for their diverse morphologies and complex behaviors.
- 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: Tetraodontidae Target entity description: Tetraodontidae is a family of primarily marine and estuarine fishes known as pufferfish, famous for their ability to inflate their bodies and for containing the potent neurotoxin tetrodotoxin.
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A.
Tetraodontiformes
Tetraodontiformes is an order of highly specialized ray-finned fishes that includes pufferfish, triggerfish, boxfish, and their relatives, many of which are known for their unique body shapes and defensive adaptations.
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B.
Scorpaenidae
Scorpaenidae is a family of marine ray-finned fishes that includes scorpionfishes, lionfishes, and stonefishes, many of which are venomous and well-camouflaged.
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C.
Scorpaeniformes
Scorpaeniformes is an order of ray-finned fishes that includes scorpionfishes, lionfishes, rockfishes, and related often venomous, bottom-dwelling marine species.
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D.
Derichthyidae
Derichthyidae is a family of deep-sea eel-like fishes within the order Anguilliformes, commonly known as longneck eels.
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E.
Labroidei
Labroidei is a suborder of mostly marine perciform fishes that includes wrasses, parrotfishes, and cichlids, known for their diverse morphologies and complex behaviors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fish family
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taxon ⓘ |
| associatedCuisine | fugu ⓘ |
| bodyShape | robust and somewhat spherical when inflated ⓘ |
| class | Actinopterygii ⓘ |
| commonName |
blowfish
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globefish ⓘ pufferfish ⓘ puffers ⓘ swellfish ⓘ |
| contains |
Arothron hispidus
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Lagocephalus sceleratus ⓘ Takifugu rubripes ⓘ Tetraodon nigroviridis ⓘ |
| defenseMechanism |
body inflation with water or air
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chemical defense via tetrodotoxin ⓘ |
| diet |
algae
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crustaceans ⓘ mollusks ⓘ other invertebrates ⓘ |
| distribution |
some temperate regions
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subtropical regions ⓘ tropical regions ⓘ |
| economicUse |
aquarium trade
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food fish in some cultures ⓘ |
| finMorphology |
no pelvic fins in many species
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small pectoral fins ⓘ |
| habitat |
brackish waters
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estuarine waters ⓘ marine waters ⓘ some freshwater environments ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
ability to inflate body
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beak-like fused teeth ⓘ contains tetrodotoxin in many species ⓘ often covered with spines or prickles ⓘ slow swimming ⓘ |
| hasSubgroup |
freshwater pufferfish
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marine pufferfish ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| namedBy | Charles Lucien Bonaparte ⓘ |
| notableFeature | among the most poisonous vertebrates ⓘ |
| order | Tetraodontiformes ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproduction | egg-laying ⓘ |
| risk | highly poisonous if improperly prepared ⓘ |
| taxonRank | family ⓘ |
| toxin | tetrodotoxin ⓘ |
| toxinLocation |
gonads
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intestines ⓘ liver ⓘ skin ⓘ |
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: Tetraodontidae Description of subject: Tetraodontidae is a family of primarily marine and estuarine fishes known as pufferfish, famous for their ability to inflate their bodies and for containing the potent neurotoxin tetrodotoxin.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.