family Milyeringidae
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Family Milyeringidae is a small family of blind, cave-dwelling gobies known from subterranean waters, particularly in Australia and Madagascar.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| family Milyeringidae canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10897807 — 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: family Milyeringidae Context triple: [Gobioidei, includes, family Milyeringidae]
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A.
Fundulidae
Fundulidae is a family of small ray-finned fishes commonly known as topminnows and killifishes, found primarily in freshwater and coastal habitats of North and Central America.
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B.
Moringuidae
Moringuidae is a family of slender, burrowing eels commonly known as spaghetti or worm eels, found in tropical and subtropical marine and brackish waters.
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C.
Moridae
Moridae is a family of deep-sea cod-like fishes known for their elongated bodies and occurrence in cold and temperate ocean waters worldwide.
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D.
Moronidae
Moronidae is a family of temperate bass fishes that includes several popular game and food species found in freshwater and coastal marine environments.
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E.
Nandiniidae
Nandiniidae is a small family of African carnivorous mammals best known for the African palm civet, a solitary, arboreal species with a cat-like appearance.
- 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: family Milyeringidae Target entity description: Family Milyeringidae is a small family of blind, cave-dwelling gobies known from subterranean waters, particularly in Australia and Madagascar.
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A.
Fundulidae
Fundulidae is a family of small ray-finned fishes commonly known as topminnows and killifishes, found primarily in freshwater and coastal habitats of North and Central America.
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B.
Moringuidae
Moringuidae is a family of slender, burrowing eels commonly known as spaghetti or worm eels, found in tropical and subtropical marine and brackish waters.
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C.
Moridae
Moridae is a family of deep-sea cod-like fishes known for their elongated bodies and occurrence in cold and temperate ocean waters worldwide.
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D.
Moronidae
Moronidae is a family of temperate bass fishes that includes several popular game and food species found in freshwater and coastal marine environments.
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E.
Nandiniidae
Nandiniidae is a small family of African carnivorous mammals best known for the African palm civet, a solitary, arboreal species with a cat-like appearance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fish family
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ray-finned fish family ⓘ taxon ⓘ |
| adaptation |
enhanced non-visual sensory systems
ⓘ
loss of pigmentation ⓘ |
| characteristic |
blind
ⓘ
cave-dwelling ⓘ troglobitic ⓘ |
| class | Actinopterygii ⓘ |
| commonName |
blind cave gobies
ⓘ
linked to:
Typhlichthys subterraneus
|
| containsGenus |
Milyeringa
ⓘ
Typhleotris ⓘ |
| describedAs | small family of gobies ⓘ |
| distribution |
Australia
ⓘ
Madagascar ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole | specialized cave fish ⓘ |
| environment | groundwater-dependent ecosystems ⓘ |
| habitat |
anchialine caves
ⓘ
groundwater aquifers ⓘ subterranean waters ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| memberOf | Gobiiformes families ⓘ |
| notableFor | independent cave colonization in Australia and Madagascar ⓘ |
| order | Gobiiformes ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Eleotridae
ⓘ
Gobiidae ⓘ |
| reproduction | benthic spawners (inferred for gobies) ⓘ |
| taxonomicRank | family ⓘ |
| vision | eyes highly reduced ⓘ |
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: family Milyeringidae Description of subject: Family Milyeringidae is a small family of blind, cave-dwelling gobies known from subterranean waters, particularly in Australia and Madagascar.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.