Cyprinodontidae
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Cyprinodontidae is a family of small, often brightly colored ray-finned fishes commonly known as pupfishes, many of which inhabit extreme or isolated freshwater and brackish environments.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cyprinodontidae canonical | 37 |
| Aplocheilidae | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2396282 — 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: Cyprinodontidae Context triple: [Cyprinodontiformes, hasMember, Cyprinodontidae]
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A.
Cyprinodontiformes
Cyprinodontiformes is an order of ray-finned fishes that includes killifishes, livebearers, and related small freshwater and brackish species found worldwide.
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B.
Poeciliidae
Poeciliidae is a family of small freshwater fishes, including guppies and mollies, known for their live-bearing reproduction and popularity in aquariums.
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C.
Cyprinidae
Cyprinidae is a large family of freshwater fishes that includes carps, minnows, and their relatives, widely distributed across Eurasia, Africa, and North America.
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D.
Atherinopsidae
Atherinopsidae is a family of small, silvery ray-finned fishes commonly known as New World silversides, found primarily in marine and freshwater coastal habitats of the Americas.
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E.
Atherinidae
Atherinidae is a family of small, silvery ray-finned fishes commonly known as silversides, found in marine, brackish, and freshwater environments worldwide.
- 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: Cyprinodontidae Target entity description: Cyprinodontidae is a family of small, often brightly colored ray-finned fishes commonly known as pupfishes, many of which inhabit extreme or isolated freshwater and brackish environments.
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A.
Cyprinodontiformes
Cyprinodontiformes is an order of ray-finned fishes that includes killifishes, livebearers, and related small freshwater and brackish species found worldwide.
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B.
Poeciliidae
Poeciliidae is a family of small freshwater fishes, including guppies and mollies, known for their live-bearing reproduction and popularity in aquariums.
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C.
Cyprinidae
Cyprinidae is a large family of freshwater fishes that includes carps, minnows, and their relatives, widely distributed across Eurasia, Africa, and North America.
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D.
Atherinopsidae
Atherinopsidae is a family of small, silvery ray-finned fishes commonly known as New World silversides, found primarily in marine and freshwater coastal habitats of the Americas.
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E.
Atherinidae
Atherinidae is a family of small, silvery ray-finned fishes commonly known as silversides, found in marine, brackish, and freshwater environments worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (76)
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: Cyprinodontidae Description of subject: Cyprinodontidae is a family of small, often brightly colored ray-finned fishes commonly known as pupfishes, many of which inhabit extreme or isolated freshwater and brackish environments.
Referenced by (38)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Cyprinodontidae
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Floridichthys
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Ataeniobius