Micropterus
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Micropterus is a genus of North American freshwater fish in the sunfish family, best known for including popular sport species such as largemouth and smallmouth bass.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Micropterus canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13407950 — 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: Micropterus Context triple: [largemouth bass, genus, Micropterus]
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A.
Micropterus salmoides
Micropterus salmoides is a widely distributed North American freshwater game fish known for its large mouth, aggressive behavior, and popularity in sport fishing.
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B.
Kryptopterus
Kryptopterus is a genus of Southeast Asian glass catfishes known for their transparent bodies and elongated, laterally compressed forms.
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C.
Hoplichthys
Hoplichthys is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes known commonly as ghost flatheads, found in deep waters of the Indo-Pacific region.
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D.
Scardinius
Scardinius is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes in the carp family, commonly known as rudds, found in European and Eurasian waters.
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E.
Ichthyomyzon
Ichthyomyzon is a genus of lampreys, a group of jawless, eel-like parasitic or non-parasitic fishes found primarily in freshwater habitats of North America.
- 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: Micropterus Target entity description: Micropterus is a genus of North American freshwater fish in the sunfish family, best known for including popular sport species such as largemouth and smallmouth bass.
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A.
Micropterus salmoides
Micropterus salmoides is a widely distributed North American freshwater game fish known for its large mouth, aggressive behavior, and popularity in sport fishing.
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B.
Kryptopterus
Kryptopterus is a genus of Southeast Asian glass catfishes known for their transparent bodies and elongated, laterally compressed forms.
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C.
Hoplichthys
Hoplichthys is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes known commonly as ghost flatheads, found in deep waters of the Indo-Pacific region.
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D.
Scardinius
Scardinius is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes in the carp family, commonly known as rudds, found in European and Eurasian waters.
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E.
Ichthyomyzon
Ichthyomyzon is a genus of lampreys, a group of jawless, eel-like parasitic or non-parasitic fishes found primarily in freshwater habitats of North America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fish genus
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taxon ⓘ |
| class | Actinopterygii ⓘ |
| commonName | black basses ⓘ |
| diet |
crustaceans
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insects ⓘ smaller fish ⓘ |
| economicImportance |
recreational fishing
ⓘ
sport fishing tournaments ⓘ |
| family | Centrarchidae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| habitat |
freshwater
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lakes ⓘ ponds ⓘ reservoirs ⓘ rivers ⓘ |
| impact | can be invasive outside native range ⓘ |
| includesSpecies |
Micropterus cataractae
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Micropterus chattahoochae NERFINISHED ⓘ Micropterus coosae NERFINISHED ⓘ Micropterus dolomieu NERFINISHED ⓘ Micropterus floridanus NERFINISHED ⓘ Micropterus henshalli NERFINISHED ⓘ Micropterus notius NERFINISHED ⓘ Micropterus punctulatus NERFINISHED ⓘ Micropterus salmoides NERFINISHED ⓘ Micropterus sp. cf. coosae “Altamaha” ⓘ Micropterus sp. cf. coosae “Savannah” NERFINISHED ⓘ Micropterus sp. cf. dolomieu “Ouachita” ⓘ Micropterus sp. cf. punctulatus “Cahaba” ⓘ Micropterus tallapoosae NERFINISHED ⓘ Micropterus treculii NERFINISHED ⓘ Micropterus warriorensis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| introducedTo |
Africa
NERFINISHED
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Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ South America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Centrarchidae
NERFINISHED
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sunfish family ⓘ |
| nativeTo | North America ⓘ |
| notableFor |
largemouth bass
ⓘ
smallmouth bass ⓘ spotted bass ⓘ |
| order | Perciformes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parentalCare | male nest guarding ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproduction | egg-laying ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| trophicLevel | predatory fish ⓘ |
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: Micropterus Description of subject: Micropterus is a genus of North American freshwater fish in the sunfish family, best known for including popular sport species such as largemouth and smallmouth bass.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.