World Register of Marine Species
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The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) is an authoritative, continuously updated database that aims to provide the most accurate and comprehensive list of names and classification details for all marine organisms.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| World Register of Marine Species canonical | 11 |
| WoRMS | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9541901 — 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: World Register of Marine Species Context triple: [Plotosidae, recognizedBy, World Register of Marine Species]
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A.
Limits of Oceans and Seas
Limits of Oceans and Seas is an authoritative reference work that defines and standardizes the official boundaries and names of the world's oceans and seas for international use.
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B.
Global Biodiversity Information Facility
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is an international open-data infrastructure that provides free access to biodiversity occurrence records from institutions and citizen-science projects worldwide.
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C.
Marine Ecoregions of the World
Marine Ecoregions of the World is a global biogeographic framework that divides the world’s coastal and shelf waters into distinct ecological regions to support marine conservation planning and research.
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D.
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) is an intergovernmental marine science organization that coordinates and advances research on the North Atlantic and adjacent seas to inform sustainable management of marine resources and ecosystems.
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E.
Marine Life Institute
The Marine Life Institute is a fictional marine rehabilitation and education center featured prominently in Pixar's animated film "Finding Dory."
- 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: World Register of Marine Species Target entity description: The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) is an authoritative, continuously updated database that aims to provide the most accurate and comprehensive list of names and classification details for all marine organisms.
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A.
Limits of Oceans and Seas
Limits of Oceans and Seas is an authoritative reference work that defines and standardizes the official boundaries and names of the world's oceans and seas for international use.
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B.
Global Biodiversity Information Facility
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is an international open-data infrastructure that provides free access to biodiversity occurrence records from institutions and citizen-science projects worldwide.
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C.
Marine Ecoregions of the World
Marine Ecoregions of the World is a global biogeographic framework that divides the world’s coastal and shelf waters into distinct ecological regions to support marine conservation planning and research.
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D.
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) is an intergovernmental marine science organization that coordinates and advances research on the North Atlantic and adjacent seas to inform sustainable management of marine resources and ecosystems.
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E.
Marine Life Institute
The Marine Life Institute is a fictional marine rehabilitation and education center featured prominently in Pixar's animated film "Finding Dory."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
online database
ⓘ
taxonomic database ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
WoRMS
ⓘ
linked to:
World Register of Marine Species
|
| aimsTo |
provide an authoritative list of marine organism names
ⓘ
provide comprehensive classification details for marine organisms ⓘ |
| contributesTo |
global species inventories
ⓘ
marine biodiversity assessments ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
marine biodiversity
ⓘ
taxonomic information ⓘ |
| hasDataModel | taxonomic hierarchy ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
downloadable data
ⓘ
searchable interface ⓘ taxon-specific pages ⓘ web services API ⓘ |
| hasGoal |
cover all marine organisms
ⓘ
standardize marine species nomenclature ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryDomain | marine species ⓘ |
| hasScope | global ⓘ |
| includes |
class-level marine taxa
ⓘ
family-level marine taxa ⓘ genus-level marine taxa ⓘ kingdom-level marine taxa ⓘ order-level marine taxa ⓘ phylum-level marine taxa ⓘ species-level marine taxa ⓘ |
| isAccessibleAs | online portal ⓘ |
| isContinuously | updated ⓘ |
| isMaintainedBy |
editorial board
ⓘ
taxonomic experts ⓘ |
| isRecognizedAs | authoritative source for marine species names ⓘ |
| isUsedBy |
data managers
ⓘ
ecologists ⓘ marine biologists ⓘ policy makers ⓘ taxonomists ⓘ |
| provides |
accepted names for marine taxa
ⓘ
authorship information for species names ⓘ information on species status ⓘ links to related databases ⓘ publication details for species names ⓘ scientific names of marine species ⓘ synonyms of marine species names ⓘ taxonomic classification ⓘ |
| supports |
conservation planning
ⓘ
environmental management ⓘ marine biodiversity research ⓘ policy making related to marine biodiversity ⓘ |
| uses | peer review of taxonomic content ⓘ |
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: World Register of Marine Species Description of subject: The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) is an authoritative, continuously updated database that aims to provide the most accurate and comprehensive list of names and classification details for all marine organisms.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Solanderia (a genus name used in taxonomy)
linked to: World Register of Marine Species