family Microdesmidae
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The family Microdesmidae is a group of small, elongated marine fishes within the goby suborder, commonly known as wormfishes and dartfishes, found in tropical and subtropical coastal waters.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| family Microdesmidae canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10897811 — 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 Microdesmidae Context triple: [Gobioidei, includes, family Microdesmidae]
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A.
Phycidae
Phycidae is a family of marine cod-like fishes within the order Gadiformes, commonly known as phycid hakes.
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B.
Clypeosphaeriaceae
Clypeosphaeriaceae is a family of ascomycete fungi known for their perithecial fruiting bodies and association with decaying plant material.
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C.
Aspredinidae
Aspredinidae is a family of South American banjo catfishes known for their flattened, leaf-like bodies and bottom-dwelling habits in freshwater habitats.
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D.
Rotifera
Rotifera is a phylum of microscopic, mostly aquatic invertebrates known for their wheel-like ciliated structures used for feeding and locomotion.
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E.
Flagellariaceae
Flagellariaceae is a small family of tropical climbing monocot plants characterized by grass-like leaves and tendril-like leaf tips, traditionally placed within the order Poales.
- 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 Microdesmidae Target entity description: The family Microdesmidae is a group of small, elongated marine fishes within the goby suborder, commonly known as wormfishes and dartfishes, found in tropical and subtropical coastal waters.
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A.
Phycidae
Phycidae is a family of marine cod-like fishes within the order Gadiformes, commonly known as phycid hakes.
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B.
Clypeosphaeriaceae
Clypeosphaeriaceae is a family of ascomycete fungi known for their perithecial fruiting bodies and association with decaying plant material.
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C.
Aspredinidae
Aspredinidae is a family of South American banjo catfishes known for their flattened, leaf-like bodies and bottom-dwelling habits in freshwater habitats.
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D.
Rotifera
Rotifera is a phylum of microscopic, mostly aquatic invertebrates known for their wheel-like ciliated structures used for feeding and locomotion.
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E.
Flagellariaceae
Flagellariaceae is a small family of tropical climbing monocot plants characterized by grass-like leaves and tendril-like leaf tips, traditionally placed within the order Poales.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fish family
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ray-finned fish family ⓘ taxon ⓘ |
| belongsToOrder | Gobiiformes ⓘ |
| belongsToSuborder | Gobioidei ⓘ |
| bodyShape | elongated ⓘ |
| bodySize | small ⓘ |
| class | Actinopterygii ⓘ |
| commonName |
dartfishes
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wormfishes ⓘ |
| diet |
small invertebrates
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zooplankton ⓘ |
| distribution |
subtropical regions
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tropical regions ⓘ |
| environment | marine ⓘ |
| habitat |
coral reef-associated habitats
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shallow coastal waters ⓘ subtropical coastal waters ⓘ tropical coastal waters ⓘ |
| hasCommonName |
dartfish
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wormfish ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| lifestyle | benthic-associated ⓘ |
| locomotion | burrow-associated swimming ⓘ |
| order | Gobiiformes ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproduction | egg-laying ⓘ |
| suborder | Gobioidei ⓘ |
| taxonRank | family ⓘ |
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 Microdesmidae Description of subject: The family Microdesmidae is a group of small, elongated marine fishes within the goby suborder, commonly known as wormfishes and dartfishes, found in tropical and subtropical coastal waters.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.