Maxillopoda
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Maxillopoda is a diverse class of mostly small crustaceans that includes barnacles, copepods, and related groups found in marine and freshwater environments.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maxillopoda canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4266758 — 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: Maxillopoda Context triple: [Crustacea, hasSubgroup, Maxillopoda]
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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.
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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D.
Isopoda
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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E.
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.
- 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: Maxillopoda Target entity description: Maxillopoda is a diverse class of mostly small crustaceans that includes barnacles, copepods, and related groups found in marine and freshwater environments.
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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.
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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D.
Isopoda
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | class of crustaceans ⓘ |
| containsParasiticGroups |
Branchiura
ⓘ
Pentastomida ⓘ |
| containsPlanktonicGroups | copepods ⓘ |
| containsSessileFilterFeeders | barnacles ⓘ |
| describedBy | Siegfried Reimer ⓘ |
| distinguishedBy |
reduced or absent abdominal appendages
ⓘ
specialized thoracic appendages ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole |
primary consumer in aquatic food webs
ⓘ
secondary consumer in aquatic food webs ⓘ zooplankton component ⓘ |
| economicImportance |
barnacles cause biofouling on ships
ⓘ
important in fisheries as food for fish ⓘ some species are parasites of fish ⓘ |
| habitat |
freshwater environment
ⓘ
marine environment ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
five head segments
ⓘ
many parasitic forms ⓘ maxillipeds present ⓘ often planktonic ⓘ reduced abdomen ⓘ short trunk ⓘ |
| hasCommonName | maxillopods ⓘ |
| hasSubgroupWithFreeSwimmingAdults | copepods ⓘ |
| hasSubgroupWithParasiticAdults |
fish lice (Branchiura)
ⓘ
tongue worms (Pentastomida) ⓘ |
| hasSubgroupWithSessileAdults | barnacles ⓘ |
| includesOrganismType |
barnacle
ⓘ
copepod ⓘ |
| includesTaxon |
Branchiura
ⓘ
Cirripedia ⓘ Copepoda ⓘ Mystacocarida ⓘ Pentastomida ⓘ Thecostraca ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| larvalStage | nauplius ⓘ |
| phylum | Arthropoda ⓘ |
| recognizedInClassification | traditional crustacean systematics ⓘ |
| reproduction | sexual reproduction ⓘ |
| subphylum | Crustacea ⓘ |
| taxonomicStatus | subject to revision based on molecular data ⓘ |
| taxonRank | class ⓘ |
| typicalBodySize | small ⓘ |
| yearDescribed | 1953 ⓘ |
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: Maxillopoda Description of subject: Maxillopoda is a diverse class of mostly small crustaceans that includes barnacles, copepods, and related groups found in marine and freshwater environments.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.