Cobitoidea
E805043
Cobitoidea is a superfamily of small, bottom-dwelling freshwater fishes commonly known as loaches, found primarily in Eurasian rivers and streams.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cobitoidea canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9531549 — 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: Cobitoidea Context triple: [Cobitidae, superfamily, Cobitoidea]
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A.
Cobitidae
Cobitidae is a family of small, bottom-dwelling freshwater fishes commonly known as loaches, found primarily in Eurasia and known for their elongated bodies and barbels around the mouth.
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B.
Gobioidei
Gobioidei is a large suborder of mostly small, bottom-dwelling ray-finned fishes that includes gobies and their close relatives, many of which inhabit marine, brackish, and freshwater environments worldwide.
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C.
Scophthalmidae
Scophthalmidae is a family of flatfishes that includes species such as turbots and brill, known for their laterally compressed bodies and benthic marine habitats.
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D.
Percoidei
Percoidei is a large and diverse suborder of ray-finned fishes that includes many familiar marine and freshwater species such as perches, basses, and groupers.
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E.
Gobionidae
Gobionidae is a family of small freshwater fishes commonly known as gudgeons, primarily distributed across Eurasian rivers and streams.
- 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: Cobitoidea Target entity description: Cobitoidea is a superfamily of small, bottom-dwelling freshwater fishes commonly known as loaches, found primarily in Eurasian rivers and streams.
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A.
Cobitidae
Cobitidae is a family of small, bottom-dwelling freshwater fishes commonly known as loaches, found primarily in Eurasia and known for their elongated bodies and barbels around the mouth.
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B.
Gobioidei
Gobioidei is a large suborder of mostly small, bottom-dwelling ray-finned fishes that includes gobies and their close relatives, many of which inhabit marine, brackish, and freshwater environments worldwide.
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C.
Scophthalmidae
Scophthalmidae is a family of flatfishes that includes species such as turbots and brill, known for their laterally compressed bodies and benthic marine habitats.
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D.
Percoidei
Percoidei is a large and diverse suborder of ray-finned fishes that includes many familiar marine and freshwater species such as perches, basses, and groupers.
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E.
Gobionidae
Gobionidae is a family of small freshwater fishes commonly known as gudgeons, primarily distributed across Eurasian rivers and streams.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fish superfamily
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ray-finned fish superfamily ⓘ taxonomic superfamily ⓘ |
| class | Actinopterygii ⓘ |
| commonName | loaches ⓘ |
| containsFamily |
Balitoridae
NERFINISHED
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Barbuccidae NERFINISHED ⓘ Botiidae NERFINISHED ⓘ Catostomidae NERFINISHED ⓘ Cobitidae NERFINISHED ⓘ Ellopostomatidae NERFINISHED ⓘ Gastromyzontidae NERFINISHED ⓘ Gyrinocheilidae NERFINISHED ⓘ Nemacheilidae NERFINISHED ⓘ Psilorhynchidae NERFINISHED ⓘ Serpenticobitidae NERFINISHED ⓘ Vaillantellidae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedAs | small bottom-dwelling freshwater fishes ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole | bottom-dwelling insectivore ⓘ |
| feedingType | benthic feeder ⓘ |
| finType | ray-finned ⓘ |
| foundIn | benthic zones of streams and rivers ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution |
Asia
NERFINISHED
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Eurasia NERFINISHED ⓘ Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| habitat |
freshwater
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rivers ⓘ streams ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
elongated body shape
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often possess barbels around the mouth ⓘ subterminal mouth adapted for bottom feeding ⓘ |
| higherClassification | Cypriniformes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includesCommonGroup |
hillstream loaches
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river loaches ⓘ true loaches ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| memberOf | Cypriniphysae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| order | Cypriniformes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproduction | oviparous ⓘ |
| superorder | Cypriniphysae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| taxonRank | superfamily ⓘ |
| typicalBodySize | small ⓘ |
| typicalSubstrateAssociation | benthic ⓘ |
| waterType | 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: Cobitoidea Description of subject: Cobitoidea is a superfamily of small, bottom-dwelling freshwater fishes commonly known as loaches, found primarily in Eurasian rivers and streams.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.