Braconidae
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Braconidae is a large family of parasitic wasps known for their role in biological control by attacking and regulating populations of other insects.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Braconidae canonical | 2 |
| Braconinae | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3995102 — 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: Braconidae Context triple: [Hymenoptera, notableFamily, Braconidae]
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A.
Ichneumonidae
Ichneumonidae is a large family of parasitic wasps known for their role in controlling insect populations by laying eggs in or on other arthropods.
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B.
Chalcidians
The Chalcidians were an ancient Greek people from the city of Chalcis on Euboea, known for establishing numerous colonies in southern Italy and elsewhere in the Mediterranean.
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C.
Vespidae
Vespidae is a large family of wasps that includes many social and solitary species such as yellowjackets, hornets, and paper wasps, known for their often complex colony structures and sometimes painful stings.
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D.
Symphyta
Symphyta is a suborder of sawflies and related insects characterized by their broad waist and plant-feeding larvae that often resemble caterpillars.
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E.
Apocrita
Apocrita is a large suborder of insects within the order Hymenoptera that includes wasps, bees, and ants, characterized by a narrow waist separating the thorax and abdomen.
- 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: Braconidae Target entity description: Braconidae is a large family of parasitic wasps known for their role in biological control by attacking and regulating populations of other insects.
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A.
Ichneumonidae
Ichneumonidae is a large family of parasitic wasps known for their role in controlling insect populations by laying eggs in or on other arthropods.
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B.
Chalcidians
The Chalcidians were an ancient Greek people from the city of Chalcis on Euboea, known for establishing numerous colonies in southern Italy and elsewhere in the Mediterranean.
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C.
Vespidae
Vespidae is a large family of wasps that includes many social and solitary species such as yellowjackets, hornets, and paper wasps, known for their often complex colony structures and sometimes painful stings.
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D.
Symphyta
Symphyta is a suborder of sawflies and related insects characterized by their broad waist and plant-feeding larvae that often resemble caterpillars.
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E.
Apocrita
Apocrita is a large suborder of insects within the order Hymenoptera that includes wasps, bees, and ants, characterized by a narrow waist separating the thorax and abdomen.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
insect family
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ wasp family ⓘ |
| bodyType | small wasps ⓘ |
| class | Insecta ⓘ |
| commonName | braconid wasps ⓘ |
| contains |
many genera
ⓘ
thousands of species ⓘ |
| describedAs | parasitic wasps ⓘ |
| dietStage |
adults feed on honeydew
ⓘ
adults feed on nectar ⓘ larvae are parasitoids ⓘ |
| distribution | cosmopolitan ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole |
biological control agent
ⓘ
parasitoid of other insects ⓘ |
| habitat |
agricultural ecosystems
ⓘ
terrestrial ecosystems ⓘ |
| hasSubfamily |
Alysiinae
ⓘ
Braconidae self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Braconinae
Microgastrinae ⓘ Opiinae ⓘ Rogadinae ⓘ |
| hostsInclude |
aphid pests
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beetle pests ⓘ caterpillar pests ⓘ |
| importance |
controls agricultural pests
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important in integrated pest management ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| morphologicalFeature |
filiform antennae
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narrow waist ⓘ ovipositor often long ⓘ |
| namedBy | Pierre André Latreille ⓘ |
| order | Hymenoptera NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parasitismType |
idiobiont parasitoid
ⓘ
koinobiont parasitoid ⓘ |
| parasitizes |
Coleoptera larvae
ⓘ
Diptera ⓘ Hemiptera ⓘ Lepidoptera larvae ⓘ other Hymenoptera ⓘ |
| phylum | Arthropoda ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Ichneumonidae ⓘ |
| reproductiveStrategy |
gregarious parasitoid
ⓘ
solitary parasitoid ⓘ |
| superfamily | Ichneumonoidea ⓘ |
| superfamilyMemberOf | Ichneumonoidea ⓘ |
| taxonRank | family ⓘ |
| usedFor | biological pest control ⓘ |
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: Braconidae Description of subject: Braconidae is a large family of parasitic wasps known for their role in biological control by attacking and regulating populations of other insects.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Braconinae