Attini
E391902
Attini is a tribe of New World ants best known for their advanced fungus-farming behavior and complex social organization.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3821243 — 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: Attini Context triple: [Atta cephalotes, tribe, Attini]
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A.
Ropalidia
Ropalidia is a genus of social paper wasps found primarily in the Old World tropics, known for their diverse nesting behaviors and complex colony organization.
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B.
Formiae
Formiae was an ancient coastal town in Latium, Italy, known as a Roman resort and historically noted as the place where Cicero was killed.
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C.
Apocrita
Apocrita is a large suborder of insects within the order Hymenoptera that includes wasps, bees, and ants, characterized by a narrow waist separating the thorax and abdomen.
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D.
Epipona
Epipona is a genus of social paper wasps within the subfamily Polistinae, known from the Neotropical region.
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E.
Apoica
Apoica is a genus of nocturnal paper wasps known for their pale coloration and distinctive nighttime activity in the Neotropics.
- 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: Attini Target entity description: Attini is a tribe of New World ants best known for their advanced fungus-farming behavior and complex social organization.
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A.
Ropalidia
Ropalidia is a genus of social paper wasps found primarily in the Old World tropics, known for their diverse nesting behaviors and complex colony organization.
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B.
Formiae
Formiae was an ancient coastal town in Latium, Italy, known as a Roman resort and historically noted as the place where Cicero was killed.
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C.
Apocrita
Apocrita is a large suborder of insects within the order Hymenoptera that includes wasps, bees, and ants, characterized by a narrow waist separating the thorax and abdomen.
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D.
Epipona
Epipona is a genus of social paper wasps within the subfamily Polistinae, known from the Neotropical region.
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E.
Apoica
Apoica is a genus of nocturnal paper wasps known for their pale coloration and distinctive nighttime activity in the Neotropics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ant tribe
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| agricultureType | insect agriculture ⓘ |
| behavior |
colony-level agriculture
ⓘ
division of labor ⓘ leaf and plant material harvesting ⓘ obligate fungus cultivation ⓘ |
| class | Insecta ⓘ |
| commonName | attine ants ⓘ |
| diet |
cultivated fungal mycelium
ⓘ
plant material used as fungal substrate ⓘ |
| distribution | New World ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole |
ecosystem engineer
ⓘ
fungus cultivator ⓘ herbivore ⓘ |
| family | Formicidae ⓘ |
| firstDescribedBy | Gustav Mayr ⓘ |
| firstDescriptionYear | 1865 ⓘ |
| includes |
Acromyrmex
ⓘ
Apterostigma ⓘ Atta ⓘ Cyphomyrmex ⓘ Mycetophylax ⓘ Mycocepurus ⓘ Sericomyrmex ⓘ
linked to:
Trachymyrmex
Trachymyrmex ⓘ leafcutter ants ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advanced agriculture
ⓘ
complex social organization ⓘ fungus farming ⓘ mutualism with fungi ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Central America
ⓘ
Neotropics ⓘ
linked to:
Neotropical realm
South America ⓘ southern North America ⓘ |
| nestType |
soil mounds
ⓘ
underground nests ⓘ wood or cavity nests ⓘ |
| notableGroupWithin | fungus-growing ants ⓘ |
| order | Hymenoptera ⓘ |
| phylum | Arthropoda ⓘ |
| reproductiveCastes |
males
ⓘ
queens ⓘ |
| subfamily | Myrmicinae ⓘ |
| symbiosisType | mutualism ⓘ |
| symbiosisWith | cultivated basidiomycete fungi ⓘ |
| taxonRank | tribe ⓘ |
| workerCastes |
major workers
ⓘ
minor workers ⓘ soldiers ⓘ |
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: Attini Description of subject: Attini is a tribe of New World ants best known for their advanced fungus-farming behavior and complex social organization.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.