Tor putitora
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Tor putitora, commonly known as the golden mahseer, is a large, migratory freshwater fish native to South and Southeast Asian rivers and valued both as a game fish and a threatened species of conservation concern.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tor putitora canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7017522 — 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: Tor putitora Context triple: [mahseer, commonNameOf, Tor putitora]
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A.
Tor Tiv
Tor Tiv is the paramount traditional ruler and cultural leader of the Tiv people of central Nigeria.
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B.
Toritto
Toritto is a small town and comune in the Apulia region of southern Italy, known for its agricultural production, particularly almonds and olives.
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C.
Tur
Tur is a foundational 14th-century Jewish legal code by Rabbi Jacob ben Asher that systematically organized halakhic rulings and served as a primary basis for later works like the Shulchan Aruch.
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D.
Lo-Toga
Lo-Toga is an Oceanic language spoken on the Torres Islands in northern Vanuatu.
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E.
Tarskavaig
Tarskavaig is a small coastal crofting village on the Sleat peninsula of the Isle of Skye in Scotland, known for its scenic bay and traditional Gaelic heritage.
- 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: Tor putitora Target entity description: Tor putitora, commonly known as the golden mahseer, is a large, migratory freshwater fish native to South and Southeast Asian rivers and valued both as a game fish and a threatened species of conservation concern.
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A.
Tor Tiv
Tor Tiv is the paramount traditional ruler and cultural leader of the Tiv people of central Nigeria.
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B.
Toritto
Toritto is a small town and comune in the Apulia region of southern Italy, known for its agricultural production, particularly almonds and olives.
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C.
Tur
Tur is a foundational 14th-century Jewish legal code by Rabbi Jacob ben Asher that systematically organized halakhic rulings and served as a primary basis for later works like the Shulchan Aruch.
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D.
Lo-Toga
Lo-Toga is an Oceanic language spoken on the Torres Islands in northern Vanuatu.
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E.
Tarskavaig
Tarskavaig is a small coastal crofting village on the Sleat peninsula of the Isle of Skye in Scotland, known for its scenic bay and traditional Gaelic heritage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fish species
ⓘ
game fish ⓘ migratory fish ⓘ threatened species ⓘ |
| assessedBy |
IUCN Red List
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linked to:
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
|
| bodyColoration | golden ⓘ |
| bodyShape | elongated ⓘ |
| class | Actinopterygii ⓘ |
| commonName |
Himalayan mahseer
ⓘ
linked to:
mahseer
golden mahseer ⓘ
linked to:
mahseer
|
| conservationStatus | Endangered ⓘ |
| describedBy | Francis Hamilton ⓘ |
| diet |
algae
ⓘ
invertebrates ⓘ plant material ⓘ small fish ⓘ |
| family | Cyprinidae ⓘ |
| foundInCountry |
Bangladesh
ⓘ
Bhutan ⓘ India ⓘ Nepal ⓘ Pakistan ⓘ |
| genus | Tor ⓘ |
| habitat |
fast-flowing streams
ⓘ
foothill rivers ⓘ large rivers ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| maximumLength | approximately 2.7 metres ⓘ |
| maximumWeight | over 50 kilograms ⓘ |
| migratoryBehavior | long-distance upriver spawning migrations ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Brahmaputra River basin
ⓘ
linked to:
Brahmaputra Valley
Ganges River basin ⓘ
linked to:
Ganges Basin
Himalayan river systems ⓘ Indus River basin ⓘ South Asia ⓘ Southeast Asia ⓘ |
| order | Cypriniformes ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| subjectOf | mahseer conservation programs ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| threat |
habitat loss
ⓘ
introduction of exotic fish ⓘ overfishing ⓘ pollution ⓘ river damming ⓘ sand mining ⓘ |
| trophicLevel | omnivorous ⓘ |
| usedIn | restocking and ranching projects ⓘ |
| valuedAs |
food fish
ⓘ
sport fish ⓘ |
| yearDescribed | 1822 ⓘ |
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: Tor putitora Description of subject: Tor putitora, commonly known as the golden mahseer, is a large, migratory freshwater fish native to South and Southeast Asian rivers and valued both as a game fish and a threatened species of conservation concern.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.