Bombycidae
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Bombycidae is a family of moths best known for including the domesticated silkworm moth, whose larvae produce commercial silk.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bombycidae canonical | 2 |
| Bombycinae | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4802569 — 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: Bombycidae Context triple: [Bombyx mori, family, Bombycidae]
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A.
Cecropidae
Cecropidae is the legendary Athenian royal family or clan descended from the mythic king Cecrops in ancient Greek mythology.
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B.
Bombycilloidea
Bombycilloidea is a superfamily of passerine birds that includes waxwings and several related, primarily frugivorous and insectivorous songbird families found across the Northern Hemisphere.
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C.
Bombyx mori
Bombyx mori is the domesticated silkworm species widely used in sericulture for producing commercial silk.
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D.
Symphyta
Symphyta is a suborder of sawflies and related insects characterized by their broad waist and plant-feeding larvae that often resemble caterpillars.
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E.
Monarchidae
Monarchidae is a family of small to medium-sized passerine birds, commonly known as monarch flycatchers, found mainly in Australasia, Asia, and Africa.
- 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: Bombycidae Target entity description: Bombycidae is a family of moths best known for including the domesticated silkworm moth, whose larvae produce commercial silk.
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A.
Cecropidae
Cecropidae is the legendary Athenian royal family or clan descended from the mythic king Cecrops in ancient Greek mythology.
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B.
Bombycilloidea
Bombycilloidea is a superfamily of passerine birds that includes waxwings and several related, primarily frugivorous and insectivorous songbird families found across the Northern Hemisphere.
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C.
Bombyx mori
Bombyx mori is the domesticated silkworm species widely used in sericulture for producing commercial silk.
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D.
Symphyta
Symphyta is a suborder of sawflies and related insects characterized by their broad waist and plant-feeding larvae that often resemble caterpillars.
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E.
Monarchidae
Monarchidae is a family of small to medium-sized passerine birds, commonly known as monarch flycatchers, found mainly in Australasia, Asia, and Africa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: Bombycidae Description of subject: Bombycidae is a family of moths best known for including the domesticated silkworm moth, whose larvae produce commercial silk.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Bombycidae