Skiffia
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Skiffia is a small genus of livebearing freshwater fish native to central Mexico, belonging to the goodeid family and known for its conservation concern due to habitat loss and declining wild populations.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Skiffia canonical | 3 |
| Skiffia lermae | 2 |
| Skiffia multipunctata | 2 |
| Skiffia bilineata | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11177105 — 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: Skiffia Context triple: [Cyprinodontidae, hasMember, Skiffia]
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A.
Skiffia francesae
Skiffia francesae is a critically endangered species of goodeid fish endemic to central Mexico, known for its livebearing reproduction and restricted freshwater habitat.
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B.
Rhodelia
Rhodelia is an unincorporated rural community located in Meade County, Kentucky, United States.
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C.
Pothia
Pothia is the main town and administrative center of the Greek island of Kalymnos, known for its colorful hillside houses and harbor.
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D.
Potamophila
Potamophila is a small genus of aquatic or semi-aquatic grasses within the rice subfamily, known for species adapted to riverine and wetland habitats.
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E.
Leitneria
Leitneria is a small genus of deciduous shrubs or small trees, best known for the species Leitneria floridana, which is native to wetland habitats in the southeastern United States and notable for its extremely lightweight wood.
- 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: Skiffia Target entity description: Skiffia is a small genus of livebearing freshwater fish native to central Mexico, belonging to the goodeid family and known for its conservation concern due to habitat loss and declining wild populations.
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A.
Skiffia francesae
Skiffia francesae is a critically endangered species of goodeid fish endemic to central Mexico, known for its livebearing reproduction and restricted freshwater habitat.
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B.
Rhodelia
Rhodelia is an unincorporated rural community located in Meade County, Kentucky, United States.
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C.
Pothia
Pothia is the main town and administrative center of the Greek island of Kalymnos, known for its colorful hillside houses and harbor.
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D.
Potamophila
Potamophila is a small genus of aquatic or semi-aquatic grasses within the rice subfamily, known for species adapted to riverine and wetland habitats.
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E.
Leitneria
Leitneria is a small genus of deciduous shrubs or small trees, best known for the species Leitneria floridana, which is native to wetland habitats in the southeastern United States and notable for its extremely lightweight wood.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fish genus
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| belongsToGroup | goodeids ⓘ |
| bodySize | small ⓘ |
| class | Actinopterygii ⓘ |
| commonName | Skiffia ⓘ |
| conservationIssue |
declining wild populations
ⓘ
habitat loss ⓘ |
| conservationStatus | threatened ⓘ |
| distribution | Mesa Central of Mexico ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole | small-bodied omnivorous fish ⓘ |
| endemicTo | Mexico ⓘ |
| family | Goodeidae ⓘ |
| foundIn |
Lerma River basin
ⓘ
Pánuco River basin ⓘ upper Río Grande de Santiago basin ⓘ |
| habitat |
freshwater
ⓘ
lakes ⓘ rivers ⓘ streams ⓘ |
| hasSpecies |
Skiffia bilineata
ⓘ
linked to:
Skiffia
Skiffia francesae ⓘ Skiffia lermae ⓘ
linked to:
Skiffia
Skiffia multipunctata ⓘ
linked to:
Skiffia
|
| inCaptivity | maintained in conservation breeding programs ⓘ |
| isA |
freshwater fish genus
ⓘ
livebearing fish genus ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Skiff (surname of an individual associated with its discovery or description) ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Mexico
ⓘ
central Mexico ⓘ |
| order | Cyprinodontiformes ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| populationTrend | declining ⓘ |
| region | Mexican Plateau ⓘ |
| reproduction | livebearing ⓘ |
| researchUse | model for conservation of endemic Mexican freshwater fishes ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| threat |
habitat degradation
ⓘ
introduction of non-native fish ⓘ water abstraction ⓘ water pollution ⓘ |
| typeSpecies |
Skiffia lermae
ⓘ
linked to:
Skiffia
|
| waterType |
alkaline water
ⓘ
hard water ⓘ |
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: Skiffia Description of subject: Skiffia is a small genus of livebearing freshwater fish native to central Mexico, belonging to the goodeid family and known for its conservation concern due to habitat loss and declining wild populations.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Skiffia
linked to: Skiffia
linked to: Skiffia
linked to: Skiffia