Solea solea
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Solea solea, commonly known as the common sole or Dover sole, is a flatfish species found in eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean waters and highly valued as a food fish.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Solea solea canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9859873 — 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: Solea solea Context triple: [Soleidae, notableSpecies, Solea solea]
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A.
Solea
"Solea" is the closing track of Miles Davis's landmark 1960 album *Sketches of Spain*, blending jazz and Spanish folk influences in a slow, evocative orchestral arrangement.
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B.
Sardina
Sardina is a genus of small, schooling marine fish commonly known as sardines, widely found in coastal waters and important in commercial fisheries.
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C.
Muraenesox
Muraenesox is a genus of large marine eels commonly known as pike congers, found in tropical and subtropical coastal waters.
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D.
Bagre marinus
Bagre marinus, commonly known as the gafftopsail catfish, is a marine catfish species found in the western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, recognized for its long, sail-like dorsal fin and venomous spines.
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E.
Alosa
Alosa is a genus of shad fishes in the herring family, known for their migratory behavior between marine and freshwater environments.
- 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: Solea solea Target entity description: Solea solea, commonly known as the common sole or Dover sole, is a flatfish species found in eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean waters and highly valued as a food fish.
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A.
Solea
"Solea" is the closing track of Miles Davis's landmark 1960 album *Sketches of Spain*, blending jazz and Spanish folk influences in a slow, evocative orchestral arrangement.
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B.
Sardina
Sardina is a genus of small, schooling marine fish commonly known as sardines, widely found in coastal waters and important in commercial fisheries.
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C.
Muraenesox
Muraenesox is a genus of large marine eels commonly known as pike congers, found in tropical and subtropical coastal waters.
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D.
Bagre marinus
Bagre marinus, commonly known as the gafftopsail catfish, is a marine catfish species found in the western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, recognized for its long, sail-like dorsal fin and venomous spines.
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E.
Alosa
Alosa is a genus of shad fishes in the herring family, known for their migratory behavior between marine and freshwater environments.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fish species
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flatfish ⓘ marine organism ⓘ |
| activityPattern | nocturnal ⓘ |
| binomialName | Solea solea ⓘ |
| bodyShape | flattened ⓘ |
| camouflage | buries in sediment ⓘ |
| class | Actinopterygii ⓘ |
| commonName |
Dover sole
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common sole ⓘ |
| culinaryUse | highly valued in European cuisine ⓘ |
| depthRange |
continental shelf
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shallow coastal waters ⓘ |
| describedBy | Carl Linnaeus ⓘ |
| diet |
bivalves
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polychaete worms ⓘ small crustaceans ⓘ |
| distribution |
Baltic Sea (southwestern)
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linked to:
Baltic Sea
North Sea ⓘ |
| economicImportance | commercially important ⓘ |
| economicUse | food fish ⓘ |
| eyePosition | both eyes on right side of body ⓘ |
| family | Soleidae ⓘ |
| feedingType | benthic predator ⓘ |
| fishingArea |
Mediterranean fisheries
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northeast Atlantic fisheries ⓘ |
| fishingMethod |
bottom trawling
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gillnets ⓘ |
| genus | Solea ⓘ |
| habitat |
Black Sea
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Mediterranean Sea ⓘ eastern Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| IUCNStatus | Least Concern ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| lifestyle | demersal ⓘ |
| maximumLength | about 70 cm ⓘ |
| nativeRange | eastern Atlantic from Norway to Senegal ⓘ |
| order | Pleuronectiformes ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproduction | egg-laying ⓘ |
| salinityPreference | marine ⓘ |
| salinityTolerance | slightly brackish waters ⓘ |
| spawningHabitat | offshore waters ⓘ |
| substratePreference |
muddy bottoms
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sandy bottoms ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| typicalLength | about 30 cm ⓘ |
| yearDescribed | 1758 ⓘ |
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: Solea solea Description of subject: Solea solea, commonly known as the common sole or Dover sole, is a flatfish species found in eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean waters and highly valued as a food fish.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.