Vespoidea
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Vespoidea is a large superfamily of wasp-like insects that includes ants, social wasps, and related species within the order Hymenoptera.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Vespoidea canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T692152 — 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: Vespoidea Context triple: [Formicidae, superfamily, Vespoidea]
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A.
Vespidae
Vespidae is a large family of wasps that includes many social and solitary species such as yellowjackets, hornets, and paper wasps, known for their often complex colony structures and sometimes painful stings.
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B.
Formicidae
Formicidae is the biological family comprising all ant species, known for their complex social organization and widespread ecological impact.
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C.
Apidae
Apidae is a large and diverse family of bees that includes honey bees, bumblebees, stingless bees, and many other important pollinators found worldwide.
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D.
Avispas
Avispas is the popular nickname of the professional baseball team from Santiago de Cuba in the Cuban National Series.
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E.
Isoptera
Isoptera is the insect order comprising termites, known for their eusocial colonies, wood-feeding habits, and significant ecological and economic impacts.
- 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: Vespoidea Target entity description: Vespoidea is a large superfamily of wasp-like insects that includes ants, social wasps, and related species within the order Hymenoptera.
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A.
Vespidae
Vespidae is a large family of wasps that includes many social and solitary species such as yellowjackets, hornets, and paper wasps, known for their often complex colony structures and sometimes painful stings.
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B.
Formicidae
Formicidae is the biological family comprising all ant species, known for their complex social organization and widespread ecological impact.
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C.
Apidae
Apidae is a large and diverse family of bees that includes honey bees, bumblebees, stingless bees, and many other important pollinators found worldwide.
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D.
Avispas
Avispas is the popular nickname of the professional baseball team from Santiago de Cuba in the Cuban National Series.
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E.
Isoptera
Isoptera is the insect order comprising termites, known for their eusocial colonies, wood-feeding habits, and significant ecological and economic impacts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
insect superfamily
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taxon ⓘ |
| class | Insecta ⓘ |
| contains | numerous medically significant stinging species ⓘ |
| distinguishedBy | generally more robust bodies and often more developed stings than many Apoidea ⓘ |
| distinguishedFrom | Apoidea ⓘ |
| distribution | cosmopolitan ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole |
pollinator
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predator of other arthropods ⓘ soil aeration through nesting activities ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Cretaceous period (as a group within Hymenoptera) ⓘ |
| habitat | terrestrial ecosystems worldwide ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
females typically possess a sting derived from the ovipositor
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important in biological control of other insects ⓘ includes both social and solitary taxa ⓘ many species are important pollinators ⓘ many species are predators or parasitoids ⓘ many species exhibit eusocial behavior ⓘ most species have a constricted waist (petiole) ⓘ |
| hasEconomicImpact |
some species are agricultural pests
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some species cause painful stings to humans ⓘ some species provide natural pest control ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
elbowed antennae in many groups
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metasoma often separated from mesosoma by a narrow petiole ⓘ |
| higherClassification | Aculeata ⓘ |
| includes |
Bradynobaenidae
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Formicidae ⓘ Mutillidae ⓘ
linked to:
Vespidae
Pompilidae ⓘ
linked to:
Vespidae
Rhopalosomatidae ⓘ Sapygidae ⓘ Scoliidae ⓘ Tiphiidae ⓘ Vespidae ⓘ ants ⓘ social wasps ⓘ solitary wasps ⓘ |
| includesBehavior |
complex social organization in many species
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nest building ⓘ parental care of brood in many taxa ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| order | Hymenoptera ⓘ |
| phylum | Arthropoda ⓘ |
| reproduction | usually sexual reproduction with haplodiploid sex determination ⓘ |
| sexDeterminationSystem | haplodiploidy ⓘ |
| suborder | Apocrita ⓘ |
| taxonRank | superfamily ⓘ |
| typeOf | wasp-like insect group ⓘ |
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: Vespoidea Description of subject: Vespoidea is a large superfamily of wasp-like insects that includes ants, social wasps, and related species within the order Hymenoptera.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.