Homarus
E521364
Homarus is a genus of large clawed marine lobsters that includes commercially important species such as the American and European lobsters.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Homarus canonical | 1 |
| Homarus americanus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5464117 — 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: Homarus Context triple: [American lobster, genus, Homarus]
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A.
Taroa
Taroa is the main settlement and administrative center of Maloelap Atoll in the Marshall Islands, known historically for its World War II-era Japanese airbase.
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B.
Marpissa
Marpissa is a traditional Cycladic village on the Greek island of Paros, known for its narrow alleys, whitewashed houses, and hilltop views.
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C.
Lamut
Lamut is an indigenous Siberian people of northeastern Russia, more commonly known as the Even.
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D.
Gorinhaiqua
Gorinhaiqua was a Khoikhoi group in the Cape region known for resisting early Dutch colonial expansion during the 17th-century frontier conflicts.
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E.
Thalassius
Thalassius is a figure or persona known primarily as the addressee of the ancient text "Questions to Thalassius," in which theological or philosophical questions are posed to him.
- 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: Homarus Target entity description: Homarus is a genus of large clawed marine lobsters that includes commercially important species such as the American and European lobsters.
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A.
Taroa
Taroa is the main settlement and administrative center of Maloelap Atoll in the Marshall Islands, known historically for its World War II-era Japanese airbase.
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B.
Marpissa
Marpissa is a traditional Cycladic village on the Greek island of Paros, known for its narrow alleys, whitewashed houses, and hilltop views.
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C.
Lamut
Lamut is an indigenous Siberian people of northeastern Russia, more commonly known as the Even.
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D.
Gorinhaiqua
Gorinhaiqua was a Khoikhoi group in the Cape region known for resisting early Dutch colonial expansion during the 17th-century frontier conflicts.
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E.
Thalassius
Thalassius is a figure or persona known primarily as the addressee of the ancient text "Questions to Thalassius," in which theological or philosophical questions are posed to him.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
genus
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| bodyPlan | segmented body with cephalothorax and abdomen ⓘ |
| class | Malacostraca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commonName | clawed lobsters ⓘ |
| conservationConcern | subject to fishing pressure ⓘ |
| describedAs | genus of large clawed marine lobsters ⓘ |
| describedBy | William Elford Leach NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| development | larval planktonic stages ⓘ |
| distribution |
North Atlantic Ocean
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
eastern North Atlantic ⓘ western North Atlantic ⓘ |
| domain |
Eukarya
ⓘ
surface form:
Eukaryota
|
| ecologicalRole | benthic crustaceans ⓘ |
| economicImportance | commercially important seafood ⓘ |
| family | Nephropidae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| feedingType | omnivorous scavengers ⓘ |
| fishedFor | meat ⓘ |
| habitat |
continental shelf waters
ⓘ
marine environment ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
asymmetrical claws (crusher and cutter)
ⓘ
five pairs of walking legs ⓘ hard exoskeleton ⓘ large chelae (claws) ⓘ |
| hasUse |
commercial fisheries
ⓘ
human food ⓘ |
| includesTaxon |
Homarus americanus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Homarus gammarus ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| locomotion |
tail-flip escape response
ⓘ
walking on seafloor ⓘ |
| namedBy | William Elford Leach NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableSpecies |
Homarus americanus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Homarus gammarus ⓘ |
| order | Decapoda ⓘ |
| parentTaxon | Nephropidae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| phylogeneticGroup | true lobsters ⓘ |
| phylum | Arthropoda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Nephrops norvegicus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reproduction | sexual reproduction ⓘ |
| respiration | gills ⓘ |
| skeletonType | chitinous exoskeleton ⓘ |
| subphylum | Crustacea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| typeSpecies | Homarus gammarus ⓘ |
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: Homarus Description of subject: Homarus is a genus of large clawed marine lobsters that includes commercially important species such as the American and European lobsters.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Homarus americanus