Anthozoa
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Anthozoa is a class of marine invertebrates within the phylum Cnidaria that includes corals, sea anemones, and related polyp-only forms.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Anthozoa canonical | 2 |
| Alcyonacea | 1 |
| Ceriantharia | 1 |
| Hexacorallia | 1 |
| Octocorallia | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T745050 — 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: Anthozoa Context triple: [Cnidaria, includesClass, Anthozoa]
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A.
Cnidaria
Cnidaria is a phylum of mostly marine animals, including jellyfish, corals, sea anemones, and hydras, characterized by radial symmetry and specialized stinging cells called cnidocytes.
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B.
Echinodermata
Echinodermata is a phylum of marine invertebrates that includes starfish, sea urchins, sand dollars, and sea cucumbers, characterized by radial symmetry and a water vascular system.
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C.
Thaliacea
Thaliacea is a class of free-floating, barrel-shaped marine tunicates that form part of the plankton and often live in colonies.
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D.
Sabellian
Sabellian is an extinct group of Italic languages once spoken in ancient central and southern Italy, related to but distinct from Latin.
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E.
Mollusca
Mollusca is a large and diverse phylum of invertebrate animals that includes snails, clams, squids, and octopuses, typically characterized by soft bodies often protected by a hard shell.
- 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: Anthozoa Target entity description: Anthozoa is a class of marine invertebrates within the phylum Cnidaria that includes corals, sea anemones, and related polyp-only forms.
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A.
Cnidaria
Cnidaria is a phylum of mostly marine animals, including jellyfish, corals, sea anemones, and hydras, characterized by radial symmetry and specialized stinging cells called cnidocytes.
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B.
Echinodermata
Echinodermata is a phylum of marine invertebrates that includes starfish, sea urchins, sand dollars, and sea cucumbers, characterized by radial symmetry and a water vascular system.
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C.
Thaliacea
Thaliacea is a class of free-floating, barrel-shaped marine tunicates that form part of the plankton and often live in colonies.
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D.
Sabellian
Sabellian is an extinct group of Italic languages once spoken in ancient central and southern Italy, related to but distinct from Latin.
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E.
Mollusca
Mollusca is a large and diverse phylum of invertebrate animals that includes snails, clams, squids, and octopuses, typically characterized by soft bodies often protected by a hard shell.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
class
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| associatedWith | zooxanthellae ⓘ |
| bodyPlan |
gastrovascular cavity
ⓘ
single body opening ⓘ |
| clade |
Cnidaria
ⓘ
Radiata ⓘ |
| containsSubclass |
Ceriantharia
ⓘ
linked to:
Anthozoa
Hexacorallia ⓘ
linked to:
Anthozoa
Octocorallia ⓘ
linked to:
Anthozoa
|
| distribution | worldwide oceans ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole | habitat former ⓘ |
| environment | marine ⓘ |
| feedingMechanism | suspension feeding ⓘ |
| feedingType | carnivorous ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Paleozoic era ⓘ |
| fossilRecord | abundant ⓘ |
| hasBodyForm | polyp ⓘ |
| hasCellType | cnidocyte ⓘ |
| hasLayer | mesoglea ⓘ |
| hasSymbiosis | photosynthetic dinoflagellates ⓘ |
| hasTissue |
epidermis
ⓘ
gastrodermis ⓘ |
| includes |
black coral
ⓘ
coral ⓘ sea anemone ⓘ sea fan ⓘ sea pen ⓘ soft coral ⓘ stony coral ⓘ zoanthid ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| lacksLifeStage | medusa ⓘ |
| lifeCycleStage | planula larva ⓘ |
| locomotion |
limited crawling in some species
ⓘ
sessile ⓘ |
| nervousSystem | nerve net ⓘ |
| phylum | Cnidaria ⓘ |
| reproduction |
asexual
ⓘ
sexual ⓘ |
| reproductiveMode |
broadcast spawning
ⓘ
brooding ⓘ |
| skeletonPresence | may be skeleton-forming ⓘ |
| skeletonType |
calcareous skeleton
ⓘ
proteinaceous skeleton ⓘ |
| subkingdom | Eumetazoa ⓘ |
| symmetry | radial symmetry ⓘ |
| taxonRank | class ⓘ |
| trophicRole | primary reef builder ⓘ |
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: Anthozoa Description of subject: Anthozoa is a class of marine invertebrates within the phylum Cnidaria that includes corals, sea anemones, and related polyp-only forms.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Anthozoa
linked to: Anthozoa
linked to: Anthozoa