Umbridae
E802940
Umbridae is a small family of freshwater fishes, commonly known as mudminnows, found in temperate regions of North America and Europe.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Umbridae canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9498998 — 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: Umbridae Context triple: [Esociformes, includesFamily, Umbridae]
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A.
Todidae
Todidae is a small family of colorful, insect-eating birds known as todies, which are native to the Caribbean and related to kingfishers and bee-eaters.
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B.
Oxydactylus
Oxydactylus is an extinct genus of early camelid-like mammals that lived in North America during the Oligocene epoch.
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C.
Cyematidae
Cyematidae is a small family of deep-sea bobtail snipe eels known for their extremely slender bodies and specialized adaptations to life in the ocean depths.
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D.
Manidae
Manidae is the family of scaly anteaters commonly known as pangolins, comprising all extant species within the mammalian order Pholidota.
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E.
Belidae
Belidae is a family of primitive weevils within the superfamily Curculionoidea, known for their elongated snouts and association with specific host plants.
- 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: Umbridae Target entity description: Umbridae is a small family of freshwater fishes, commonly known as mudminnows, found in temperate regions of North America and Europe.
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A.
Todidae
Todidae is a small family of colorful, insect-eating birds known as todies, which are native to the Caribbean and related to kingfishers and bee-eaters.
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B.
Oxydactylus
Oxydactylus is an extinct genus of early camelid-like mammals that lived in North America during the Oligocene epoch.
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C.
Cyematidae
Cyematidae is a small family of deep-sea bobtail snipe eels known for their extremely slender bodies and specialized adaptations to life in the ocean depths.
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D.
Manidae
Manidae is the family of scaly anteaters commonly known as pangolins, comprising all extant species within the mammalian order Pholidota.
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E.
Belidae
Belidae is a family of primitive weevils within the superfamily Curculionoidea, known for their elongated snouts and association with specific host plants.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fish family
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| class | Actinopterygii ⓘ |
| climateRegion | temperate ⓘ |
| commonName | mudminnows ⓘ |
| containsGenus |
Dallia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Novumbra ⓘ Umbra ⓘ |
| diet |
invertebrates
ⓘ
small fishes ⓘ |
| distribution |
Europe
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
North America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ecologicalNiche | small freshwater predator ⓘ |
| habitat | freshwater ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| order | Esociformes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Esocidae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reproduction | egg-laying ⓘ |
| respirationAdaptation | tolerant of low oxygen levels ⓘ |
| skeletonType | bony fishes ⓘ |
| superorder | Protacanthopterygii NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| taxonRank | family ⓘ |
| typeGenus | Umbra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| typicalBodySize | small ⓘ |
| vernacularName | mudminnows ⓘ |
| waterType |
backwaters
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marshes ⓘ slow-moving waters ⓘ swamps ⓘ |
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: Umbridae Description of subject: Umbridae is a small family of freshwater fishes, commonly known as mudminnows, found in temperate regions of North America and Europe.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.