Megachilidae
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Megachilidae is a family of solitary bees, including leafcutter and mason bees, known for their distinctive pollen-carrying structures on the underside of the abdomen and their use of plant material or mud to construct nests.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Megachilidae canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4235271 — 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: Megachilidae Context triple: [Apoidea, includes, Megachilidae]
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A.
Halictidae
Halictidae is a large and diverse family of bees, commonly known as sweat bees, many of which are attracted to human perspiration and exhibit a wide range of social behaviors.
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B.
Apidae
Apidae is a large and diverse family of bees that includes honey bees, bumblebees, stingless bees, and many other important pollinators found worldwide.
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C.
Apoidea
Apoidea is a large superfamily of bees and related wasps that includes many of the world’s primary pollinators.
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D.
Melittidae
Melittidae is a small family of solitary, often specialist bees known for their close associations with particular flowering plants.
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E.
Colletidae
Colletidae is a family of solitary, often ground-nesting bees known for lining their brood cells with a distinctive cellophane-like secretion.
- 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: Megachilidae Target entity description: Megachilidae is a family of solitary bees, including leafcutter and mason bees, known for their distinctive pollen-carrying structures on the underside of the abdomen and their use of plant material or mud to construct nests.
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A.
Halictidae
Halictidae is a large and diverse family of bees, commonly known as sweat bees, many of which are attracted to human perspiration and exhibit a wide range of social behaviors.
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B.
Apidae
Apidae is a large and diverse family of bees that includes honey bees, bumblebees, stingless bees, and many other important pollinators found worldwide.
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C.
Apoidea
Apoidea is a large superfamily of bees and related wasps that includes many of the world’s primary pollinators.
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D.
Melittidae
Melittidae is a small family of solitary, often specialist bees known for their close associations with particular flowering plants.
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E.
Colletidae
Colletidae is a family of solitary, often ground-nesting bees known for lining their brood cells with a distinctive cellophane-like secretion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bee family
ⓘ
taxonomic family ⓘ |
| adultDiet | nectar ⓘ |
| agriculturalImportance | used in managed pollination of crops ⓘ |
| class | Insecta ⓘ |
| commonName | leafcutter bees and allies ⓘ |
| containsParasiticTaxa | true ⓘ |
| cropPollinationExample |
alfalfa pollination by leafcutter bees
ⓘ
orchard pollination by mason bees ⓘ |
| describedBy | Pierre André Latreille ⓘ |
| distinguishingFeature |
pollen carried on underside of abdomen rather than on hind legs
ⓘ
use of plant material or mud to construct nests ⓘ |
| distribution | cosmopolitan ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole | important pollinators ⓘ |
| habitat | various terrestrial habitats including forests, grasslands, and urban areas ⓘ |
| includesCommonGroup |
carder bees
ⓘ
leafcutter bees ⓘ mason bees ⓘ resin bees ⓘ |
| includesGenus |
Anthidium
ⓘ
Coelioxys ⓘ Heriades ⓘ Lithurgus ⓘ Megachile ⓘ Osmia ⓘ |
| isSolitary | true ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| larvalDiet | pollen and nectar provisions ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Megachile ⓘ |
| nestingBehavior |
construct nests with leaf pieces
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construct nests with mud ⓘ construct nests with resin or plant fibers ⓘ nest in pre-existing cavities ⓘ |
| order | Hymenoptera ⓘ |
| parasiticGroupExample | cuckoo bees of genus Coelioxys ⓘ |
| phylum | Arthropoda ⓘ |
| pollenCarryingStructureLocation | ventral side of abdomen ⓘ |
| pollenCarryingStructureType | abdominal scopa ⓘ |
| pollinationType | buzz pollination in some species ⓘ |
| reproduction | females provision brood cells with pollen and nectar ⓘ |
| socialBehavior | mostly solitary bees ⓘ |
| stingCapability | females can sting ⓘ |
| superfamily | Apoidea ⓘ |
| taxonRank | family ⓘ |
| threats |
habitat loss
ⓘ
loss of nesting resources ⓘ pesticide exposure ⓘ |
| typeGenus | Megachile ⓘ |
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: Megachilidae Description of subject: Megachilidae is a family of solitary bees, including leafcutter and mason bees, known for their distinctive pollen-carrying structures on the underside of the abdomen and their use of plant material or mud to construct nests.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.