Percidae
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Percidae is a family of ray-finned freshwater fishes that includes perches, darters, and related species commonly found in the Northern Hemisphere.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Percidae canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7416416 — 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: Percidae Context triple: [Walleye, family, Percidae]
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A.
Pityocamptes
Pityocamptes is the epithet of the mythological bandit Sinis, notorious in Greek legend for killing travelers by violently bending and releasing pine trees to tear them apart.
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B.
Fundulidae
Fundulidae is a family of small ray-finned fishes commonly known as topminnows and killifishes, found primarily in freshwater and coastal habitats of North and Central America.
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C.
Regulidae
Regulidae is a family of tiny, insectivorous passerine birds known as kinglets, found mainly in the Northern Hemisphere’s forests.
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D.
Mukupirnidae
Mukupirnidae is an extinct family of ancient Australian marsupials known from fossil remains and classified within the vombatiform lineage that includes wombats and their relatives.
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E.
Mischocyttarus
Mischocyttarus is a large genus of social paper wasps found primarily in the Neotropical region, known for their diverse nesting behaviors and relatively simple colony organization.
- 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: Percidae Target entity description: Percidae is a family of ray-finned freshwater fishes that includes perches, darters, and related species commonly found in the Northern Hemisphere.
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A.
Pityocamptes
Pityocamptes is the epithet of the mythological bandit Sinis, notorious in Greek legend for killing travelers by violently bending and releasing pine trees to tear them apart.
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B.
Fundulidae
Fundulidae is a family of small ray-finned fishes commonly known as topminnows and killifishes, found primarily in freshwater and coastal habitats of North and Central America.
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C.
Regulidae
Regulidae is a family of tiny, insectivorous passerine birds known as kinglets, found mainly in the Northern Hemisphere’s forests.
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D.
Mukupirnidae
Mukupirnidae is an extinct family of ancient Australian marsupials known from fossil remains and classified within the vombatiform lineage that includes wombats and their relatives.
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E.
Mischocyttarus
Mischocyttarus is a large genus of social paper wasps found primarily in the Neotropical region, known for their diverse nesting behaviors and relatively simple colony organization.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fish family
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| belongsToSubseries | Percoidei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bodyCovering | ctenoid scales ⓘ |
| bodyShape | elongated body ⓘ |
| canOccurIn | brackish water ⓘ |
| class | Actinopterygii ⓘ |
| commonName | perch family ⓘ |
| containsGenus |
Etheostoma
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gymnocephalus NERFINISHED ⓘ Perca NERFINISHED ⓘ Percina NERFINISHED ⓘ Romanichthys NERFINISHED ⓘ Sander NERFINISHED ⓘ Zingel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| diagnosticFeature | two dorsal fins, one spiny and one soft-rayed ⓘ |
| distribution | Northern Hemisphere NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole |
predator of aquatic invertebrates
ⓘ
prey for larger fishes and birds ⓘ |
| economicallyImportantFor |
commercial fisheries
ⓘ
recreational angling ⓘ |
| feedingType | mostly insectivorous and piscivorous ⓘ |
| finType | ray-finned ⓘ |
| habitat | freshwater ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
benthic or demersal behavior
ⓘ
carnivorous ⓘ spiny dorsal fin ⓘ |
| includesCommonGroup |
darters
ⓘ
perches ⓘ pikeperches ⓘ ruffes ⓘ |
| includesSpeciesOfInterest |
Perca flavescens
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Perca fluviatilis NERFINISHED ⓘ Sander lucioperca NERFINISHED ⓘ Sander vitreus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| nativeToContinent |
Asia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ North America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableGroupWithin | North American darters (Etheostomatinae) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| order | Perciformes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| recognizedBy | zoological taxonomy ⓘ |
| reproduction | egg-laying ⓘ |
| spawningHabitat | gravel or rocky substrates ⓘ |
| subfamily |
Etheostomatinae
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Percinae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| taxonRank | family ⓘ |
| typeGenus | Perca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| waterType | primarily freshwater ⓘ |
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: Percidae Description of subject: Percidae is a family of ray-finned freshwater fishes that includes perches, darters, and related species commonly found in the Northern Hemisphere.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.