Mola mola
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Mola mola, commonly known as the ocean sunfish, is one of the heaviest bony fish in the world, recognized for its distinctive flattened, disk-like body and immense size.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mola mola canonical | 4 |
| Mola alexandrini | 1 |
| ocean sunfish | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10989020 — 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: Mola mola Context triple: [Molidae, hasCommonRepresentative, Mola mola]
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A.
Manta
Manta is a municipality located in Almeidas Province in the Cundinamarca Department of central Colombia.
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B.
Manta
Manta is a distributed object storage and compute service designed for running parallel computations directly on stored data in the cloud.
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C.
Manta
Manta is a major coastal city and important seaport in western Ecuador, known for its fishing industry, beaches, and commercial activity.
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D.
Manta
Manta is a flying roller coaster at SeaWorld Orlando that simulates the graceful, gliding motion of a manta ray through a combination of high-speed thrills and aquatic theming.
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E.
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.
- 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: Mola mola Target entity description: Mola mola, commonly known as the ocean sunfish, is one of the heaviest bony fish in the world, recognized for its distinctive flattened, disk-like body and immense size.
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A.
Manta
Manta is a municipality located in Almeidas Province in the Cundinamarca Department of central Colombia.
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B.
Manta
Manta is a distributed object storage and compute service designed for running parallel computations directly on stored data in the cloud.
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C.
Manta
Manta is a major coastal city and important seaport in western Ecuador, known for its fishing industry, beaches, and commercial activity.
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D.
Manta
Manta is a flying roller coaster at SeaWorld Orlando that simulates the graceful, gliding motion of a manta ray through a combination of high-speed thrills and aquatic theming.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bony fish
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fish species ⓘ marine organism ⓘ |
| behavior |
basking near surface
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sunbathing at surface ⓘ |
| bodyShape |
disk-like
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laterally flattened ⓘ |
| class | Actinopterygii ⓘ |
| color |
brown
ⓘ
gray ⓘ silvery ⓘ |
| commonName |
ocean sunfish
ⓘ
linked to:
Mola mola
|
| conservationStatus | Vulnerable ⓘ |
| describedBy | Carl Linnaeus ⓘ |
| diet |
crustaceans
ⓘ
jellyfish ⓘ small fish ⓘ squid ⓘ zooplankton ⓘ |
| eggProduction | up to 300 million eggs per spawning ⓘ |
| family | Molidae ⓘ |
| genus | Mola ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution |
Atlantic Ocean
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Indian Ocean ⓘ Mediterranean Sea ⓘ Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| habitat |
open ocean
ⓘ
temperate seas ⓘ tropical seas ⓘ |
| hasStructure |
anal fin
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dorsal fin ⓘ pectoral fins ⓘ small mouth ⓘ |
| isAmong | heaviest bony fish ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| locomotionSpeed | relatively slow swimmer ⓘ |
| maximumFinToFinHeight | about 4.2 m ⓘ |
| maximumLength | about 3.3 m ⓘ |
| maximumWeight | about 2500 kg ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
distinctive truncated tail region (clavus)
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one of the heaviest bony fish in the world ⓘ |
| order | Tetraodontiformes ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| predatorOf | jellyfish ⓘ |
| preyOf |
large sharks
ⓘ
orcas ⓘ
linked to:
Orca
sea lions ⓘ |
| reproduction | oviparous ⓘ |
| skeletonType | bony ⓘ |
| skinCharacteristic |
rough texture
ⓘ
thick skin ⓘ |
| swimmingStyle | uses dorsal and anal fins for propulsion ⓘ |
| tailType | clavus ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| threat |
boat strikes
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bycatch in fisheries ⓘ marine debris ingestion ⓘ |
| 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: Mola mola Description of subject: Mola mola, commonly known as the ocean sunfish, is one of the heaviest bony fish in the world, recognized for its distinctive flattened, disk-like body and immense size.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mola mola
linked to: Mola mola