Percopsiformes
E1001600
Percopsiformes is an order of small, primarily freshwater ray-finned fishes that includes trout-perches and their relatives, mostly found in North America.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Percopsiformes canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12716321 — 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: Percopsiformes Context triple: [Acanthopterygii, contains, Percopsiformes]
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A.
Zeiformes
Zeiformes is an order of deep-bodied, laterally compressed marine ray-finned fishes that includes dories and their relatives, typically found in deep or open ocean waters.
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B.
Pempheriformes
Pempheriformes is an order of ray-finned fishes that includes sweepers and their relatives, characterized by laterally compressed bodies and nocturnal, schooling behavior in marine environments.
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C.
Castorimorpha
Castorimorpha is a suborder of rodents that includes beavers, pocket gophers, and kangaroo rats, characterized by their specialized digging and gnawing adaptations.
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D.
Elopomorpha
Elopomorpha is a major group of ray-finned fishes that includes eels, tarpons, and their relatives, all characterized by a distinctive transparent leptocephalus larval stage.
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E.
Rheiformes
Rheiformes is an order of large, flightless birds native to South America, commonly known as rheas and related to ostriches and emus.
- 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: Percopsiformes Target entity description: Percopsiformes is an order of small, primarily freshwater ray-finned fishes that includes trout-perches and their relatives, mostly found in North America.
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A.
Zeiformes
Zeiformes is an order of deep-bodied, laterally compressed marine ray-finned fishes that includes dories and their relatives, typically found in deep or open ocean waters.
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B.
Pempheriformes
Pempheriformes is an order of ray-finned fishes that includes sweepers and their relatives, characterized by laterally compressed bodies and nocturnal, schooling behavior in marine environments.
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C.
Castorimorpha
Castorimorpha is a suborder of rodents that includes beavers, pocket gophers, and kangaroo rats, characterized by their specialized digging and gnawing adaptations.
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D.
Elopomorpha
Elopomorpha is a major group of ray-finned fishes that includes eels, tarpons, and their relatives, all characterized by a distinctive transparent leptocephalus larval stage.
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E.
Rheiformes
Rheiformes is an order of large, flightless birds native to South America, commonly known as rheas and related to ostriches and emus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
order of fishes
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| belongsToClade | Euteleostei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bodySize | small ⓘ |
| class | Actinopterygii ⓘ |
| commonName | trout-perch and allies ⓘ |
| containsExtantFamilies | yes ⓘ |
| diet |
invertebrates
ⓘ
small aquatic organisms ⓘ |
| distribution | North America ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole | small benthic and midwater predators ⓘ |
| eyeAdaptationInSomeMembers | reduced or absent eyes ⓘ |
| finType | ray-finned ⓘ |
| geologicalTimeOfOrigin | Cretaceous or earlier ⓘ |
| habitat | freshwater ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
adipose fin present in some species
ⓘ
includes cave-dwelling species ⓘ includes surface-dwelling species ⓘ mostly endemic to North America ⓘ soft-rayed fins in many species ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Amblyopsidae
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Aphredoderidae NERFINISHED ⓘ Percopsidae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| higherTaxon | Teleostei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includes |
cavefishes
ⓘ
pirate perches ⓘ trout-perches ⓘ |
| includesFishes | yes GENERATED ⓘ |
| infraclass | Teleostei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| notableSpeciesExample |
Amblyopsis spelaea
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Aphredoderus sayanus NERFINISHED ⓘ Percopsis omiscomaycus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| primaryContinent | North America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Nearctic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reproduction | oviparous ⓘ |
| salinityPreference | freshwater ⓘ |
| skeletonType | bony fishes ⓘ |
| subclass | Neopterygii NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| taxonomicRank | order ⓘ |
| typicalEnvironment |
lakes
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rivers ⓘ streams ⓘ |
| waterType | primarily freshwater ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Percopsiformes Description of subject: Percopsiformes is an order of small, primarily freshwater ray-finned fishes that includes trout-perches and their relatives, mostly found in North America.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.