Moorish idol
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The Moorish idol is a strikingly patterned Indo-Pacific reef fish known for its elongated dorsal fin and frequent appearance in marine aquariums and popular media.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Moorish idol canonical | 2 |
| Moorish idol family | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11908040 — 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: Moorish idol Context triple: [Gill, species, Moorish idol]
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A.
Tayassu
Tayassu is a genus of New World peccaries, medium-sized pig-like mammals native to Central and South American forests and scrublands.
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B.
Mojarra
Mojarra is the reference implementation of the Jakarta Server Faces (JSF) web framework, providing core APIs and runtime for building component-based Java web applications.
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C.
Melipilla
Melipilla is a city and commune in central Chile known for its agricultural production and location southwest of Santiago.
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D.
Paracanthurus hepatus
Paracanthurus hepatus is a brightly colored Indo-Pacific reef fish, commonly known as the blue tang or regal tang, popularized worldwide by the character Dory in the film "Finding Nemo."
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E.
Scarus
Scarus is a Roman soldier and loyal follower of Mark Antony in William Shakespeare's tragedy "Antony and Cleopatra."
- 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: Moorish idol Target entity description: The Moorish idol is a strikingly patterned Indo-Pacific reef fish known for its elongated dorsal fin and frequent appearance in marine aquariums and popular media.
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A.
Tayassu
Tayassu is a genus of New World peccaries, medium-sized pig-like mammals native to Central and South American forests and scrublands.
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B.
Mojarra
Mojarra is the reference implementation of the Jakarta Server Faces (JSF) web framework, providing core APIs and runtime for building component-based Java web applications.
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C.
Melipilla
Melipilla is a city and commune in central Chile known for its agricultural production and location southwest of Santiago.
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D.
Paracanthurus hepatus
Paracanthurus hepatus is a brightly colored Indo-Pacific reef fish, commonly known as the blue tang or regal tang, popularized worldwide by the character Dory in the film "Finding Nemo."
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E.
Scarus
Scarus is a Roman soldier and loyal follower of Mark Antony in William Shakespeare's tragedy "Antony and Cleopatra."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fish species
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marine fish ⓘ ray-finned fish ⓘ |
| aquariumDifficulty | high mortality in captivity ⓘ |
| aquariumTrade | popular but difficult to keep ⓘ |
| binomialAuthority | (Linnaeus, 1758) ⓘ |
| class | Actinopterygii ⓘ |
| commonName |
Moorish idol
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Zanclus cornutus ⓘ |
| conservationStatus | Least Concern ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance |
commonly depicted in marine aquaria imagery
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featured in popular media ⓘ |
| depthRange | from shallow waters to about 180 m ⓘ |
| diet |
benthic invertebrates
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coral polyps ⓘ sponges ⓘ tunicates ⓘ |
| family | Zanclidae ⓘ |
| genus | Zanclus ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution | tropical Indo-Pacific ⓘ |
| habitat |
coral reefs
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lagoon reefs ⓘ seaward reefs ⓘ |
| hasBodyPattern |
black bands
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white bands ⓘ yellow bands ⓘ |
| hasBodyShape | laterally compressed body ⓘ |
| hasDorsalFin | elongated filamentous dorsal fin ⓘ |
| isNot | a true butterflyfish ⓘ |
| IUCNRedListCategory | LC ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| larvalStage | long pelagic larval duration ⓘ |
| lifespanInWild | up to several years ⓘ |
| maximumLength | about 23 cm ⓘ |
| nativeRange |
Central Pacific Ocean
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East Africa ⓘ Hawaii ⓘ Indo-Pacific ⓘ
linked to:
Indo-Pacific Ocean
Red Sea ⓘ |
| order |
Acanthuriformes
ⓘ
linked to:
Acanthuroidei
|
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproduction | egg scatterer in open water ⓘ |
| resembles | butterflyfish ⓘ |
| socialBehavior |
often found in pairs
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sometimes forms small schools ⓘ |
| taxonName | Zanclus cornutus ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| typicalLength | around 18 cm ⓘ |
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: Moorish idol Description of subject: The Moorish idol is a strikingly patterned Indo-Pacific reef fish known for its elongated dorsal fin and frequent appearance in marine aquariums and popular media.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Moorish idol