Tapinoma
E403634
Tapinoma is a genus of small, often inconspicuous ants found worldwide, known for their flexible nesting habits and tendency to form large, diffuse colonies.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tapinoma canonical | 5 |
| Tapinoma melanocephalum | 1 |
| Tapinoma nigerrimum | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3994990 — 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: Tapinoma Context triple: [Formicinae, containsTaxon, Tapinoma]
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A.
Aphaenogaster
Aphaenogaster is a genus of slender, fast-moving ants commonly found in forests and grasslands, known for their role in seed dispersal and soil turnover.
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B.
Nothomyrmecia
Nothomyrmecia is a rare and primitively structured Australian ant genus often referred to as the “dinosaur ant” due to its ancient evolutionary lineage and basal characteristics.
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C.
Strumigenys
Strumigenys is a genus of small, often trap-jawed predatory ants known for their specialized mandibles and cryptic, leaf-litter-dwelling habits.
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D.
Wasmannia
Wasmannia is a genus of small, often invasive myrmicine ants best known for species like the little fire ant, which can form dense colonies and cause ecological and agricultural damage.
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E.
Epipona
Epipona is a genus of social paper wasps within the subfamily Polistinae, known from the Neotropical region.
- 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: Tapinoma Target entity description: Tapinoma is a genus of small, often inconspicuous ants found worldwide, known for their flexible nesting habits and tendency to form large, diffuse colonies.
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A.
Aphaenogaster
Aphaenogaster is a genus of slender, fast-moving ants commonly found in forests and grasslands, known for their role in seed dispersal and soil turnover.
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B.
Nothomyrmecia
Nothomyrmecia is a rare and primitively structured Australian ant genus often referred to as the “dinosaur ant” due to its ancient evolutionary lineage and basal characteristics.
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C.
Strumigenys
Strumigenys is a genus of small, often trap-jawed predatory ants known for their specialized mandibles and cryptic, leaf-litter-dwelling habits.
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D.
Wasmannia
Wasmannia is a genus of small, often invasive myrmicine ants best known for species like the little fire ant, which can form dense colonies and cause ecological and agricultural damage.
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E.
Epipona
Epipona is a genus of social paper wasps within the subfamily Polistinae, known from the Neotropical region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ant genus
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| class | Insecta ⓘ |
| colonyStructure |
often polygynous
ⓘ
polydomous ⓘ |
| diet | omnivorous ⓘ |
| distribution | cosmopolitan ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole |
scavenger
ⓘ
tending sap-sucking insects ⓘ |
| family | Formicidae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| feedsOn |
honeydew from hemipterans
ⓘ
plant exudates ⓘ small arthropods ⓘ |
| foundIn |
Africa
ⓘ
Asia ⓘ Australia ⓘ Europe ⓘ North America ⓘ South America ⓘ islands worldwide ⓘ |
| habitat |
agricultural areas
ⓘ
forests ⓘ grasslands ⓘ urban environments ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
emits characteristic odor when crushed
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flexible nesting habits ⓘ forms diffuse colonies ⓘ forms large colonies ⓘ often inconspicuous ⓘ small body size ⓘ workers often form trails ⓘ |
| hasCommonName | odorous house ant genus ⓘ |
| hasNotableSpecies |
Tapinoma
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Tapinoma melanocephalum
Tapinoma self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Tapinoma nigerrimum
Tapinoma sessile ⓘ |
| isA | dolichoderine ant ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| namedBy |
Forster
ⓘ
surface form:
Foerster
|
| nestSite |
inside buildings
ⓘ
leaf litter ⓘ soil ⓘ under logs ⓘ under stones ⓘ |
| order | Hymenoptera NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| phylum | Arthropoda ⓘ |
| reproduction | nuptial flights ⓘ |
| socialStructure | eusocial ⓘ |
| subfamily | Dolichoderinae ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
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: Tapinoma Description of subject: Tapinoma is a genus of small, often inconspicuous ants found worldwide, known for their flexible nesting habits and tendency to form large, diffuse colonies.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tapinoma melanocephalum
this entity surface form:
Tapinoma nigerrimum