Metazoa
E398091
Metazoa is the broad animal kingdom encompassing all multicellular, heterotrophic organisms with differentiated tissues and complex body plans.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Metazoa canonical | 17 |
| Animals (Metazoa) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3841536 — 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: Metazoa Context triple: [Lophotrochozoa, subdivisionOf, Metazoa]
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A.
Eumetazoa
Eumetazoa is a major animal clade that includes all multicellular animals with true tissues, organized body plans, and complex cell differentiation, excluding sponges.
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B.
Bilateria
Bilateria is a major animal clade characterized by bilateral symmetry and three germ layers, encompassing most familiar animal groups including both protostomes and deuterostomes.
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C.
Protostomia
Protostomia is a major clade of bilaterally symmetrical animals—including arthropods, mollusks, and annelids—characterized by a distinct embryonic development pattern in which the mouth typically forms before the anus.
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D.
Lophotrochozoa
Lophotrochozoa is a major clade of protostome animals that includes diverse groups such as annelid worms, mollusks, and brachiopods, united by shared developmental and molecular characteristics.
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E.
Ecdysozoa
Ecdysozoa is a major animal clade of molting invertebrates that includes arthropods, nematodes, and several related phyla.
- 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: Metazoa Target entity description: Metazoa is the broad animal kingdom encompassing all multicellular, heterotrophic organisms with differentiated tissues and complex body plans.
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A.
Eumetazoa
Eumetazoa is a major animal clade that includes all multicellular animals with true tissues, organized body plans, and complex cell differentiation, excluding sponges.
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B.
Bilateria
Bilateria is a major animal clade characterized by bilateral symmetry and three germ layers, encompassing most familiar animal groups including both protostomes and deuterostomes.
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C.
Protostomia
Protostomia is a major clade of bilaterally symmetrical animals—including arthropods, mollusks, and annelids—characterized by a distinct embryonic development pattern in which the mouth typically forms before the anus.
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D.
Lophotrochozoa
Lophotrochozoa is a major clade of protostome animals that includes diverse groups such as annelid worms, mollusks, and brachiopods, united by shared developmental and molecular characteristics.
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E.
Ecdysozoa
Ecdysozoa is a major animal clade of molting invertebrates that includes arthropods, nematodes, and several related phyla.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
animal group
ⓘ
clade ⓘ kingdom-level taxon ⓘ |
| cellularity | multicellular ⓘ |
| commonName | animals ⓘ |
| developmentalStage |
embryo
ⓘ
larva in many groups ⓘ |
| distinguishedFrom |
Fungi
ⓘ
Plantae ⓘ Protista ⓘ |
| domain |
Eukaryota
ⓘ
linked to:
Eukarya
|
| ecologicalRole |
consumers
ⓘ
detritivores ⓘ herbivores ⓘ parasites ⓘ predators ⓘ |
| evolvedFrom | unicellular eukaryotes ⓘ |
| genomeType |
mitochondrial DNA
ⓘ
nuclear DNA ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
cells without cell walls
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complex body plan ⓘ development from a blastula ⓘ differentiated tissues ⓘ motility at some life stage ⓘ sexual reproduction common ⓘ specialized sensory organs in many groups ⓘ |
| hasSubgroup |
invertebrates
ⓘ
vertebrates ⓘ |
| includes |
Annelida
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Arthropoda ⓘ Chordata ⓘ Cnidaria ⓘ Ctenophora ⓘ Echinodermata ⓘ Homo sapiens ⓘ Mollusca ⓘ Nematoda ⓘ Platyhelminthes ⓘ Porifera ⓘ |
| metabolismType | aerobic respiration dominant ⓘ |
| nutritionType | heterotrophic ⓘ |
| reproductionMode |
asexual reproduction in some lineages
ⓘ
sexual reproduction ⓘ |
| scientificName | Metazoa ⓘ |
| subsumes |
Bilateria
ⓘ
Radiata ⓘ |
| taxonRank | kingdom ⓘ |
| typicalHabitat |
freshwater environments
ⓘ
marine environments ⓘ terrestrial environments ⓘ |
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: Metazoa Description of subject: Metazoa is the broad animal kingdom encompassing all multicellular, heterotrophic organisms with differentiated tissues and complex body plans.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
gastraea theory
linked to: Metazoa
subject linked to:
Vendobionta (historical hypothesis)
subject linked to:
membrane‑spanning 4‑domains subfamily A (MS4A)