Ammobates
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Ammobates is a genus of cleptoparasitic bees within the subfamily Nomadinae, known for laying their eggs in the nests of other bee species.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ammobates canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4052402 — 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: Ammobates Context triple: [Nomadinae, contains, Ammobates]
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A.
Maurus
Maurus is a masculine given name of Latin origin, historically associated with early Christian saints and used as a variant of names like Maurice.
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B.
Eupator
Eupator is an epithet meaning "of a noble father," famously borne by Mithridates VI, the powerful king of Pontus and adversary of Rome.
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C.
Ariomardus
Ariomardus was a lesser-known Achaemenid Persian prince, one of the sons of King Darius I.
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D.
Scillus
Scillus was an ancient town in Elis, Greece, notable as the place where the Athenian historian and soldier Xenophon lived in exile and wrote some of his works.
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E.
Tisamenus
Tisamenus is a figure in Greek mythology, traditionally known as a descendant of the royal house of Thebes and associated with the lineage of heroes involved in the wars of the Epigoni.
- 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: Ammobates Target entity description: Ammobates is a genus of cleptoparasitic bees within the subfamily Nomadinae, known for laying their eggs in the nests of other bee species.
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A.
Maurus
Maurus is a masculine given name of Latin origin, historically associated with early Christian saints and used as a variant of names like Maurice.
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B.
Eupator
Eupator is an epithet meaning "of a noble father," famously borne by Mithridates VI, the powerful king of Pontus and adversary of Rome.
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C.
Ariomardus
Ariomardus was a lesser-known Achaemenid Persian prince, one of the sons of King Darius I.
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D.
Scillus
Scillus was an ancient town in Elis, Greece, notable as the place where the Athenian historian and soldier Xenophon lived in exile and wrote some of his works.
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E.
Tisamenus
Tisamenus is a figure in Greek mythology, traditionally known as a descendant of the royal house of Thebes and associated with the lineage of heroes involved in the wars of the Epigoni.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bee genus
ⓘ
genus ⓘ taxon ⓘ |
| behavior | cleptoparasitic ⓘ |
| belongsToSubfamily | Nomadinae ⓘ |
| class | Insecta ⓘ |
| describedAs | genus of cuckoo bees in the family Apidae ⓘ |
| distribution |
Palearctic region
ⓘ
linked to:
Palearctic realm
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| ecologicalRole | parasite of solitary bees ⓘ |
| eggLayingSite | nests of other bees ⓘ |
| family | Apidae ⓘ |
| foundIn |
Europe
ⓘ
North Africa ⓘ Western Asia ⓘ |
| hasCommonName | cuckoo bees ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalTrait |
often robust body form typical of cuckoo bees
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reduced scopal hairs compared to non-parasitic bees ⓘ |
| hostNestType | ground-nesting bees ⓘ |
| includedIn | cleptoparasitic Nomadinae ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| lacks | pollen-collecting structures for provisioning brood ⓘ |
| lifeCycleTrait | larvae develop on provisions of host bees ⓘ |
| order | Hymenoptera ⓘ |
| parasitizes | other bee species ⓘ |
| phylum | Arthropoda ⓘ |
| pollinationRole | indirect, via adult foraging ⓘ |
| reproductiveStrategy | brood parasitism ⓘ |
| subfamily | Nomadinae ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| typeOf | cleptoparasitic bee ⓘ |
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: Ammobates Description of subject: Ammobates is a genus of cleptoparasitic bees within the subfamily Nomadinae, known for laying their eggs in the nests of other bee species.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.