Monogenea
E145732
Monogenea is a class of parasitic flatworms, primarily ectoparasites on fish, characterized by a direct life cycle and specialized attachment organs.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Monogenea canonical | 1 |
| Monopisthocotylea | 1 |
| Polyopisthocotylea | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1272621 — 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: Monogenea Context triple: [Platyhelminthes, includesClass, Monogenea]
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A.
Cestoda
Cestoda is a class of parasitic flatworms commonly known as tapeworms, which live in the intestines of vertebrate hosts and absorb nutrients through their body surface.
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B.
Platyhelminthes
Platyhelminthes is a phylum of simple, soft-bodied, bilaterally symmetrical invertebrates commonly known as flatworms, which includes both free-living and parasitic species.
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C.
Torpedosporales
Torpedosporales is an order of fungi within the class Sordariomycetes, comprising mainly marine and aquatic species known for their specialized spore morphology.
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D.
Nephrozoa
Nephrozoa is a major clade of bilaterian animals characterized by the presence of true kidneys or kidney-like excretory organs and includes most animal phyla except sponges, cnidarians, and a few other early-branching groups.
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E.
Nematoda
Nematoda is a diverse phylum of elongated, unsegmented roundworms found in nearly every habitat on Earth, many of which are important parasites of plants, animals, and humans.
- 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: Monogenea Target entity description: Monogenea is a class of parasitic flatworms, primarily ectoparasites on fish, characterized by a direct life cycle and specialized attachment organs.
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A.
Cestoda
Cestoda is a class of parasitic flatworms commonly known as tapeworms, which live in the intestines of vertebrate hosts and absorb nutrients through their body surface.
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B.
Platyhelminthes
Platyhelminthes is a phylum of simple, soft-bodied, bilaterally symmetrical invertebrates commonly known as flatworms, which includes both free-living and parasitic species.
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C.
Torpedosporales
Torpedosporales is an order of fungi within the class Sordariomycetes, comprising mainly marine and aquatic species known for their specialized spore morphology.
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D.
Nephrozoa
Nephrozoa is a major clade of bilaterian animals characterized by the presence of true kidneys or kidney-like excretory organs and includes most animal phyla except sponges, cnidarians, and a few other early-branching groups.
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E.
Nematoda
Nematoda is a diverse phylum of elongated, unsegmented roundworms found in nearly every habitat on Earth, many of which are important parasites of plants, animals, and humans.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
class
ⓘ
parasitic flatworm ⓘ taxon ⓘ |
| bodyCavity | acoelomate ⓘ |
| bodySymmetry | bilateral symmetry ⓘ |
| characterizedBy | specialized attachment organs ⓘ |
| containsOrder |
Monogenea
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Monopisthocotylea
Monogenea self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Polyopisthocotylea
|
| digestiveSystem | incomplete digestive tract ⓘ |
| distribution | worldwide ⓘ |
| eggType | oviparous ⓘ |
| feedingType |
epidermal tissue feeding
ⓘ
hematophagous ⓘ |
| firstDescribedBy | Carl Moritz Diesing ⓘ |
| firstDescriptionYear | 1850 ⓘ |
| hasAttachmentOrgan |
opisthaptor
ⓘ
prohaptor ⓘ |
| hasExcretorySystem | protonephridial system ⓘ |
| hasIntermediateHost | no ⓘ |
| hasLarvalStage | oncomiracidium ⓘ |
| hasNervousSystem | ladder-like nervous system ⓘ |
| hostSpecificity |
often highly host-specific
ⓘ
often site-specific on host body ⓘ |
| impactOnHost |
gill damage
ⓘ
mortality in aquaculture ⓘ reduced growth in fish ⓘ skin lesions ⓘ |
| isA | flatworm ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| larvalHabitat | free-swimming ⓘ |
| lifeCycleType | direct life cycle ⓘ |
| parasiticOn |
amphibians
ⓘ
aquatic reptiles ⓘ fish ⓘ |
| phylum | Platyhelminthes ⓘ |
| relevance | important parasites in aquaculture ⓘ |
| reproductionMode |
hermaphroditic
ⓘ
sexual reproduction ⓘ |
| researchField | parasitology ⓘ |
| studiedFor |
fish disease management
ⓘ
host–parasite coevolution ⓘ |
| subphylum | Neodermata ⓘ |
| taxonRank | class ⓘ |
| transmissionMode | direct host-to-host transmission ⓘ |
| typicalHabitat |
fins of fish
ⓘ
gills of fish ⓘ skin of 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: Monogenea Description of subject: Monogenea is a class of parasitic flatworms, primarily ectoparasites on fish, characterized by a direct life cycle and specialized attachment organs.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Monopisthocotylea
this entity surface form:
Polyopisthocotylea