Wikispecies
E194347
Wikispecies is a Wikimedia Foundation project that serves as a free, collaborative directory of species and taxonomic information.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wikispecies canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1735303 — 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: Wikispecies Context triple: [Wikiversity, sisterProjectOf, Wikispecies]
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A.
Tropicos botanical database
Tropicos botanical database is an online resource maintained by the Missouri Botanical Garden that provides comprehensive taxonomic and nomenclatural information on plant species worldwide.
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B.
Global Biodiversity Information Facility
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is an international open-data infrastructure that provides free access to biodiversity occurrence records from institutions and citizen-science projects worldwide.
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C.
Wikidata
Wikidata is a collaboratively edited, multilingual knowledge base that provides structured data to support Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.
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D.
Westerveld
Westerveld is a rural municipality in the Dutch province of Drenthe, known for its natural landscapes, historic villages, and prehistoric dolmens.
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E.
Gressier
Gressier is a coastal commune in western Haiti known for its proximity to Port-au-Prince and its vulnerability to earthquakes and hurricanes.
- 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: Wikispecies Target entity description: Wikispecies is a Wikimedia Foundation project that serves as a free, collaborative directory of species and taxonomic information.
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A.
Tropicos botanical database
Tropicos botanical database is an online resource maintained by the Missouri Botanical Garden that provides comprehensive taxonomic and nomenclatural information on plant species worldwide.
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B.
Global Biodiversity Information Facility
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is an international open-data infrastructure that provides free access to biodiversity occurrence records from institutions and citizen-science projects worldwide.
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C.
Wikidata
Wikidata is a collaboratively edited, multilingual knowledge base that provides structured data to support Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.
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D.
Westerveld
Westerveld is a rural municipality in the Dutch province of Drenthe, known for its natural landscapes, historic villages, and prehistoric dolmens.
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E.
Gressier
Gressier is a coastal commune in western Haiti known for its proximity to Port-au-Prince and its vulnerability to earthquakes and hurricanes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Wikimedia project
ⓘ
online database ⓘ taxonomic database ⓘ wiki ⓘ |
| accessModel | open access ⓘ |
| collaborative | true ⓘ |
| contentFocus |
biological taxonomy
ⓘ
classification ⓘ nomenclature ⓘ species descriptions ⓘ |
| dataType | structured taxonomic data ⓘ |
| describedBySource | Wikimedia Foundation ⓘ |
| developer |
Wikimedia ecosystem
ⓘ
surface form:
Wikimedia community
|
| editingModel | community editing ⓘ |
| hasHelpPage | https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents ⓘ |
| hasMainPage | https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page ⓘ |
| hasNamespace |
Category
ⓘ
Project ⓘ Species ⓘ Talk ⓘ Template ⓘ User ⓘ |
| hasSisterProject |
Wikibooks
ⓘ
Wikidata ⓘ Wikimedia Commons ⓘ Wikinews ⓘ Wikipedia ⓘ Wikiquote ⓘ Wikisource ⓘ Wikiversity ⓘ Wikivoyage ⓘ Wiktionary ⓘ |
| inception | 2004-09-14 ⓘ |
| isFree | true ⓘ |
| license |
Creative Commons license
ⓘ
surface form:
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
GNU Free Documentation License ⓘ |
| logo | Wikispecies-logo.svg ⓘ |
| mainLanguage | English ⓘ |
| operator | Wikimedia Foundation ⓘ |
| partOf |
Wikimedia ecosystem
ⓘ
surface form:
Wikimedia projects
|
| purpose |
provide a free directory of species
ⓘ
provide taxonomic information ⓘ |
| registrationRequiredToEdit | false ⓘ |
| registrationRequiredToRead | false ⓘ |
| supportsInterlanguageLinks | true ⓘ |
| topicCategory |
Biodiversity
ⓘ
Biology ⓘ Taxonomy ⓘ |
| usesSoftware | MediaWiki ⓘ |
| website | https://species.wikimedia.org/ ⓘ |
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: Wikispecies Description of subject: Wikispecies is a Wikimedia Foundation project that serves as a free, collaborative directory of species and taxonomic information.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.