Exostoma
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Exostoma is a genus of small, bottom-dwelling sisorid catfishes native to fast-flowing streams and rivers of South and Southeast Asia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Exostoma canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9542113 — 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: Exostoma Context triple: [Sisoridae, containsGenus, Exostoma]
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A.
Rhynchortyx
Rhynchortyx is a small genus of New World quails known for inhabiting dense tropical forests in Central and South America.
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B.
Oechalia
Oechalia is a city in Greek mythology traditionally associated with King Eurytus and the heroine Iole, and is famed as the place sacked by Heracles.
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C.
Liostenogaster
Liostenogaster is a genus of hover wasps within the subfamily Stenogastrinae, known for their social behavior and distinctive nest-building in tropical regions.
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D.
Capnoides
Capnoides is a small genus of flowering plants in the poppy order Papaverales, known for delicate, often tubular flowers and typically found in temperate regions.
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E.
Oreortyx
Oreortyx is a small genus of New World quails best known for the mountain quail, a ground-dwelling game bird native to western North America.
- 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: Exostoma Target entity description: Exostoma is a genus of small, bottom-dwelling sisorid catfishes native to fast-flowing streams and rivers of South and Southeast Asia.
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A.
Rhynchortyx
Rhynchortyx is a small genus of New World quails known for inhabiting dense tropical forests in Central and South America.
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B.
Oechalia
Oechalia is a city in Greek mythology traditionally associated with King Eurytus and the heroine Iole, and is famed as the place sacked by Heracles.
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C.
Liostenogaster
Liostenogaster is a genus of hover wasps within the subfamily Stenogastrinae, known for their social behavior and distinctive nest-building in tropical regions.
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D.
Capnoides
Capnoides is a small genus of flowering plants in the poppy order Papaverales, known for delicate, often tubular flowers and typically found in temperate regions.
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E.
Oreortyx
Oreortyx is a small genus of New World quails best known for the mountain quail, a ground-dwelling game bird native to western North America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
genus
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| adaptation | adapted to strong currents ⓘ |
| behavior | bottom-dwelling ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Sisorinae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bodySize | small ⓘ |
| class | Actinopterygii ⓘ |
| commonName | sisorid catfishes ⓘ |
| distribution | Asian freshwater systems ⓘ |
| domain |
Eukarya
ⓘ
surface form:
Eukaryota
|
| ecologicalNiche | benthic ⓘ |
| family | Sisoridae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| feedingType | benthic feeder ⓘ |
| foundIn |
hill streams
ⓘ
mountain streams ⓘ |
| geographicRegion |
Himalayan region
ⓘ
Indo-Burma region NERFINISHED ⓘ Yunnan region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| habitat |
fast-flowing rivers
ⓘ
fast-flowing streams ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
adhesive or clinging adaptations to substrate
ⓘ
flattened body adapted to current ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Exostoma barakensis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Exostoma berdmorei NERFINISHED ⓘ Exostoma effrenum NERFINISHED ⓘ Exostoma gaoligongense NERFINISHED ⓘ Exostoma labiatum NERFINISHED ⓘ Exostoma laticaudata NERFINISHED ⓘ Exostoma sawmteai NERFINISHED ⓘ Exostoma stuarti NERFINISHED ⓘ Exostoma tenuicaudata NERFINISHED ⓘ Exostoma tibetanum NERFINISHED ⓘ Exostoma vinciguerrae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| lifestyle | rheophilic ⓘ |
| locomotion | demersal ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
South Asia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Southeast Asia ⓘ |
| order | Siluriformes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parentTaxon | Sisoridae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproduction | oviparous ⓘ |
| respiration | gills ⓘ |
| skeletonType | bony fish ⓘ |
| subfamily | Sisorinae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| 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: Exostoma Description of subject: Exostoma is a genus of small, bottom-dwelling sisorid catfishes native to fast-flowing streams and rivers of South and Southeast Asia.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.