Decapoda
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Decapoda is a large order of crustaceans that includes crabs, lobsters, shrimp, and related species characterized by having ten legs.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3946304 — 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: Decapoda Context triple: [Malacostraca, hasOrder, Decapoda]
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Malacostraca
Malacostraca is the largest and most diverse class of crustaceans, including crabs, lobsters, shrimp, krill, and many other familiar marine and freshwater species.
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Crustacea
Crustacea is a large subphylum of mostly aquatic arthropods that includes crabs, lobsters, shrimp, barnacles, and related species characterized by hard exoskeletons and jointed limbs.
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Amphipoda
Amphipoda is an order of small, laterally compressed crustaceans that includes sand hoppers, beach fleas, and many freshwater and marine species important in aquatic ecosystems.
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Penaeaceae
Penaeaceae is a small family of flowering plants, primarily shrubs and small trees, native to southern Africa and known for their often leathery leaves and tubular flowers.
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Kinorhyncha
Kinorhyncha are a phylum of minute, segmented, marine invertebrates known as mud dragons, characterized by a spiny head and burrowing lifestyle in marine sediments.
- 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: Decapoda Target entity description: Decapoda is a large order of crustaceans that includes crabs, lobsters, shrimp, and related species characterized by having ten legs.
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A.
Malacostraca
Malacostraca is the largest and most diverse class of crustaceans, including crabs, lobsters, shrimp, krill, and many other familiar marine and freshwater species.
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B.
Crustacea
Crustacea is a large subphylum of mostly aquatic arthropods that includes crabs, lobsters, shrimp, barnacles, and related species characterized by hard exoskeletons and jointed limbs.
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C.
Amphipoda
Amphipoda is an order of small, laterally compressed crustaceans that includes sand hoppers, beach fleas, and many freshwater and marine species important in aquatic ecosystems.
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D.
Penaeaceae
Penaeaceae is a small family of flowering plants, primarily shrubs and small trees, native to southern Africa and known for their often leathery leaves and tubular flowers.
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E.
Kinorhyncha
Kinorhyncha are a phylum of minute, segmented, marine invertebrates known as mud dragons, characterized by a spiny head and burrowing lifestyle in marine sediments.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crustacean order
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taxonomic order ⓘ |
| bodyPlan | cephalothorax and abdomen ⓘ |
| characterizedBy | ten legs ⓘ |
| class | Malacostraca ⓘ |
| development | often includes larval stages ⓘ |
| diversity | one of the most species-rich crustacean orders ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole |
benthic scavengers
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herbivores ⓘ predators ⓘ |
| economicImportance |
important in aquaculture
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important in fisheries ⓘ major seafood resources ⓘ |
| feeding |
includes detritivorous species
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includes filter-feeding species ⓘ omnivorous in many taxa ⓘ |
| fossilRecord | extends back to at least the Devonian ⓘ |
| habitat |
freshwater environments
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marine environments ⓘ terrestrial environments in some groups ⓘ |
| hasAppendages |
five pairs of thoracic walking legs
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three pairs of maxillipeds ⓘ |
| hasCommonName | decapods ⓘ |
| hasEtymology |
Greek deka meaning ten
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Greek pous meaning foot ⓘ |
| hasExoskeleton | chitinous exoskeleton ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
compound eyes
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gills for aquatic respiration ⓘ often calcified exoskeleton ⓘ two pairs of antennae ⓘ |
| includes |
crabs
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crayfish ⓘ ghost shrimps ⓘ hermit crabs ⓘ lobsters ⓘ mantis shrimps ⓘ prawns ⓘ shrimps ⓘ squat lobsters ⓘ true crabs ⓘ true lobsters ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| locomotion |
swimming with pleopods in many species
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walking with pereiopods ⓘ |
| phylum | Arthropoda ⓘ |
| reproduction | usually separate sexes ⓘ |
| subphylum | Crustacea ⓘ |
| taxonRank | order ⓘ |
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: Decapoda Description of subject: Decapoda is a large order of crustaceans that includes crabs, lobsters, shrimp, and related species characterized by having ten legs.
Referenced by (21)
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