FishBase
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FishBase is a comprehensive global database of fish species that provides taxonomic, ecological, and distributional information for researchers, managers, and the public.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| FishBase canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9541561 — 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: FishBase Context triple: [Pimelodidae, recognizedBy, FishBase]
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A.
Fish
Fish is a British electronic music producer and DJ known for his work in drum and bass and related genres.
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B.
Fish
Fish is a common English surname borne by various individuals, including fictional characters such as Ronnie Fish from P. G. Wodehouse’s stories.
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C.
Fish
Fish is the debut studio album by the British neo-progressive rock band Marillion’s original lead singer, Derek William Dick, who is widely known by his stage name Fish.
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D.
Plentimaw Fishes
Plentimaw Fishes are fantastical, many-mouthed, story-eating and story-carrying fish creatures from Salman Rushdie’s novel "Haroun and the Sea of Stories."
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E.
Melichthys
Melichthys is a genus of triggerfishes known for their laterally compressed bodies and vibrant coloration, found in tropical and subtropical ocean waters.
- 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: FishBase Target entity description: FishBase is a comprehensive global database of fish species that provides taxonomic, ecological, and distributional information for researchers, managers, and the public.
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A.
Fish
Fish is a British electronic music producer and DJ known for his work in drum and bass and related genres.
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B.
Fish
Fish is a common English surname borne by various individuals, including fictional characters such as Ronnie Fish from P. G. Wodehouse’s stories.
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C.
Fish
Fish is the debut studio album by the British neo-progressive rock band Marillion’s original lead singer, Derek William Dick, who is widely known by his stage name Fish.
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D.
Plentimaw Fishes
Plentimaw Fishes are fantastical, many-mouthed, story-eating and story-carrying fish creatures from Salman Rushdie’s novel "Haroun and the Sea of Stories."
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E.
Melichthys
Melichthys is a genus of triggerfishes known for their laterally compressed bodies and vibrant coloration, found in tropical and subtropical ocean waters.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biodiversity database
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fish database ⓘ nonprofit project ⓘ online database ⓘ |
| accessibleVia | web browser ⓘ |
| coversEnvironment |
brackish
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freshwater ⓘ marine ⓘ |
| dataLicensing | mixed licenses ⓘ |
| focusesOnTaxonRank | species ⓘ |
| hasDataScope | global ⓘ |
| hasDataType |
bibliographic references
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biological traits ⓘ images ⓘ life-history parameters ⓘ occurrence records ⓘ species-level data ⓘ |
| hasInterfaceFeature |
downloadable data tables
ⓘ
search by common name ⓘ search by country ⓘ search by ecosystem ⓘ search by species name ⓘ |
| hasUserGroup |
educators
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general public ⓘ policy makers ⓘ researchers ⓘ resource managers ⓘ |
| integratedWith |
SeaLifeBase
NERFINISHED
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global biodiversity information systems ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject | fishes ⓘ |
| providesInformationType |
aquaculture
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common names ⓘ conservation status ⓘ distribution ⓘ ecology ⓘ fisheries ⓘ morphology ⓘ population dynamics ⓘ references ⓘ synonyms ⓘ taxonomy ⓘ |
| usedFor |
biodiversity research
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conservation planning ⓘ education ⓘ environmental impact assessment ⓘ fisheries management ⓘ species identification ⓘ |
| website | https://www.fishbase.org ⓘ |
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: FishBase Description of subject: FishBase is a comprehensive global database of fish species that provides taxonomic, ecological, and distributional information for researchers, managers, and the public.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.