Labidus
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Labidus is a genus of New World army ants known for their highly organized nomadic colonies and aggressive group foraging behavior.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Labidus canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4138375 — 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: Labidus Context triple: [Dorylinae, includesGenus, Labidus]
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A.
Triplaris
Triplaris is a genus of flowering plants known for its fast-growing, often hollow-stemmed trees native to tropical regions of the Americas.
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B.
Cresco
Cresco is a small city in northeastern Iowa known for its agricultural community and historic architecture.
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C.
Cryptandra
Cryptandra is a genus of small, often spiny flowering shrubs native mainly to Australia, belonging to the buckthorn family.
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D.
Stephania
Stephania is a genus of twining or climbing flowering plants known for their distinctive peltate leaves and occurrence in tropical and subtropical regions.
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E.
Adlumia
Adlumia is a small genus of delicate climbing flowering plants native to North America and East Asia, commonly known for species like Adlumia fungosa, the climbing fumitory.
- 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: Labidus Target entity description: Labidus is a genus of New World army ants known for their highly organized nomadic colonies and aggressive group foraging behavior.
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A.
Triplaris
Triplaris is a genus of flowering plants known for its fast-growing, often hollow-stemmed trees native to tropical regions of the Americas.
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B.
Cresco
Cresco is a small city in northeastern Iowa known for its agricultural community and historic architecture.
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C.
Cryptandra
Cryptandra is a genus of small, often spiny flowering shrubs native mainly to Australia, belonging to the buckthorn family.
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D.
Stephania
Stephania is a genus of twining or climbing flowering plants known for their distinctive peltate leaves and occurrence in tropical and subtropical regions.
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E.
Adlumia
Adlumia is a small genus of delicate climbing flowering plants native to North America and East Asia, commonly known for species like Adlumia fungosa, the climbing fumitory.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
genus of insects
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| behavior |
aggressive group foraging
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nomadic colonies ⓘ raiding columns ⓘ |
| class | Insecta ⓘ |
| colonySize | very large colonies ⓘ |
| colonyType | nomadic phase and statary phase ⓘ |
| commonName | New World army ants ⓘ |
| describedBy | Julius Roger ⓘ |
| diet |
arthropods
ⓘ
other small invertebrates ⓘ predatory ⓘ |
| distribution |
Central America
ⓘ
Neotropics ⓘ
linked to:
Neotropical realm
South America ⓘ southern North America ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole |
invertebrate community regulators
ⓘ
top invertebrate predators ⓘ |
| family | Formicidae ⓘ |
| foragingStrategy |
group raiding
ⓘ
surface and subterranean foraging ⓘ |
| foragingTime | often nocturnal or crepuscular ⓘ |
| habitat |
leaf litter
ⓘ
soil ⓘ subtropical forests ⓘ tropical forests ⓘ |
| interactionWithHumans | can impact invertebrate pests ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| lifestyle | eusocial ⓘ |
| morphology |
elongate mandibles
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strongly developed soldier caste ⓘ |
| movementPattern | mass raids ⓘ |
| nests | temporary bivouacs formed by workers ⓘ |
| notableSpecies |
Labidus coecus
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Labidus mars ⓘ Labidus praedator ⓘ Labidus spininodis ⓘ |
| order | Hymenoptera ⓘ |
| parentTaxon |
Dorylinae
ⓘ
Ecitoninae ⓘ
linked to:
Eciton
|
| phylum | Arthropoda ⓘ |
| reproduction | wingless queens ⓘ |
| socialStructure | highly organized colonies ⓘ |
| subfamilyCommonName | army ants ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| vision | workers often reduced or absent eyes ⓘ |
| workerPolymorphism | present ⓘ |
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: Labidus Description of subject: Labidus is a genus of New World army ants known for their highly organized nomadic colonies and aggressive group foraging behavior.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.