Isopoda
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Isopoda is an order of crustaceans that includes woodlice and related species, characterized by their flattened bodies and diverse habitats ranging from marine and freshwater environments to terrestrial ecosystems.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3946306 — 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: Isopoda Context triple: [Malacostraca, hasOrder, Isopoda]
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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.
Decapoda
Decapoda is a large order of crustaceans that includes crabs, lobsters, shrimp, and related species characterized by having ten legs.
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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.
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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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
- 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: Isopoda Target entity description: Isopoda is an order of crustaceans that includes woodlice and related species, characterized by their flattened bodies and diverse habitats ranging from marine and freshwater environments to terrestrial ecosystems.
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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.
Decapoda
Decapoda is a large order of crustaceans that includes crabs, lobsters, shrimp, and related species characterized by having ten legs.
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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.
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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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 (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | order of crustaceans ⓘ |
| class | Malacostraca ⓘ |
| defenseMechanism | conglobation in some terrestrial species ⓘ |
| describedBy | Pierre André Latreille ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole |
decomposers of organic matter
ⓘ
prey for fish and other animals ⓘ |
| feedingType |
carnivorous
ⓘ
detritivorous ⓘ herbivorous ⓘ parasitic ⓘ |
| habitat |
caves
ⓘ
deep-sea environments ⓘ freshwater environments ⓘ intertidal zones ⓘ marine environments ⓘ soil and leaf litter ⓘ terrestrial environments ⓘ |
| hasAbdominalSegments | six abdominal segments ⓘ |
| hasAntennae | two pairs of antennae ⓘ |
| hasBodyShape | dorsoventrally flattened ⓘ |
| hasBroodPouch | marsupium in females ⓘ |
| hasCommonName | isopods ⓘ |
| hasExoskeleton | chitinous exoskeleton ⓘ |
| hasEyes | usually compound eyes ⓘ |
| hasSuborder |
Asellota
ⓘ
Calabozoidea ⓘ Cymothoida ⓘ Microcerberidea ⓘ Oniscidea ⓘ
linked to:
Isopoda
Phreatoicidea ⓘ Sphaeromatidea ⓘ Valvifera ⓘ |
| hasThoracicSegments | seven pairs of thoracic segments with legs ⓘ |
| hasUropods | pair of uropods at posterior end ⓘ |
| includesCommonName |
pill bugs
ⓘ
sea slaters ⓘ sow bugs ⓘ woodlice ⓘ |
| includesParasiticTaxa |
Bopyridae
ⓘ
Cymothoidae ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| locomotion | walking with thoracic legs ⓘ |
| phylum | Arthropoda ⓘ |
| reproduction | direct development without free-swimming larval stage ⓘ |
| respiration |
gills in aquatic species
ⓘ
pseudotracheae in many terrestrial species ⓘ |
| subphylum | Crustacea ⓘ |
| superorder | Peracarida ⓘ |
| taxonRank | order ⓘ |
| yearDescribed | 1817 ⓘ |
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: Isopoda Description of subject: Isopoda is an order of crustaceans that includes woodlice and related species, characterized by their flattened bodies and diverse habitats ranging from marine and freshwater environments to terrestrial ecosystems.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Isopoda