Opabinia
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UNEXPLORED
Opabinia is an extinct, soft-bodied marine animal from the Cambrian period, notable for its five eyes and long, flexible proboscis, known primarily from fossils in the Burgess Shale.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Opabinia canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15223412 — 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: Opabinia Context triple: [Burgess Shale, containsFossilsOf, Opabinia]
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A.
Marrella
Marrella is an extinct, small, soft-bodied arthropod known from the Burgess Shale, notable for its distinctive spined head shield and importance in understanding early Cambrian marine ecosystems.
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B.
Neopilina
Neopilina is a genus of deep-sea mollusks considered living fossils, providing key insights into the evolution and ancestral features of molluscan groups.
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C.
Arnoglossus
Arnoglossus is a genus of lefteye flounders, a group of bottom-dwelling marine flatfishes found in coastal and continental shelf waters of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans.
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D.
Metischnogaster
Metischnogaster is a genus of small, primitively eusocial hover wasps within the subfamily Stenogastrinae, known for their distinctive nesting behavior in tropical Asia.
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E.
Capnoides
Capnoides is a small genus of flowering plants in the poppy order Papaverales, known for delicate, often tubular flowers and typically found in temperate regions.
- 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: Opabinia Target entity description: Opabinia is an extinct, soft-bodied marine animal from the Cambrian period, notable for its five eyes and long, flexible proboscis, known primarily from fossils in the Burgess Shale.
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A.
Marrella
Marrella is an extinct, small, soft-bodied arthropod known from the Burgess Shale, notable for its distinctive spined head shield and importance in understanding early Cambrian marine ecosystems.
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B.
Neopilina
Neopilina is a genus of deep-sea mollusks considered living fossils, providing key insights into the evolution and ancestral features of molluscan groups.
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C.
Arnoglossus
Arnoglossus is a genus of lefteye flounders, a group of bottom-dwelling marine flatfishes found in coastal and continental shelf waters of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans.
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D.
Metischnogaster
Metischnogaster is a genus of small, primitively eusocial hover wasps within the subfamily Stenogastrinae, known for their distinctive nesting behavior in tropical Asia.
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E.
Capnoides
Capnoides is a small genus of flowering plants in the poppy order Papaverales, known for delicate, often tubular flowers and typically found in temperate regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Burgess Shale