Tinca
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Tinca is a genus of freshwater fish in the carp family, best known for the tench commonly found in European and Asian lakes and rivers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tinca canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9531842 — 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: Tinca Context triple: [Tincidae, containsTaxon, Tinca]
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A.
Alosa
Alosa is a genus of shad fishes in the herring family, known for their migratory behavior between marine and freshwater environments.
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B.
Lampetra
Lampetra is a genus of jawless, eel-like lampreys found in freshwater and coastal marine environments of the Northern Hemisphere.
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C.
Esomus
Esomus is a genus of small Asian freshwater cyprinid fishes commonly known as flying barbs, noted for their elongated bodies and barbels.
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D.
Cobitis
Cobitis is a genus of small, bottom-dwelling freshwater loaches commonly found in Eurasian rivers and streams.
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E.
Gobio
Gobio is a genus of small freshwater fishes commonly known as gudgeons, found 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: Tinca Target entity description: Tinca is a genus of freshwater fish in the carp family, best known for the tench commonly found in European and Asian lakes and rivers.
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A.
Alosa
Alosa is a genus of shad fishes in the herring family, known for their migratory behavior between marine and freshwater environments.
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B.
Lampetra
Lampetra is a genus of jawless, eel-like lampreys found in freshwater and coastal marine environments of the Northern Hemisphere.
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C.
Esomus
Esomus is a genus of small Asian freshwater cyprinid fishes commonly known as flying barbs, noted for their elongated bodies and barbels.
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D.
Cobitis
Cobitis is a genus of small, bottom-dwelling freshwater loaches commonly found in Eurasian rivers and streams.
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E.
Gobio
Gobio is a genus of small freshwater fishes commonly known as gudgeons, found across Eurasian rivers and streams.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fish genus
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| belongsTo | carp family GENERATED ⓘ |
| class | Actinopterygii ⓘ |
| commonNameOfSpecies | tench GENERATED ⓘ |
| commonSpecies | Tinca tinca GENERATED ⓘ |
| distribution |
Asia
GENERATED
ⓘ
Europe GENERATED ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole | benthic fish GENERATED ⓘ |
| family | Cyprinidae GENERATED ⓘ |
| feedingType | omnivorous GENERATED ⓘ |
| group | cyprinid fishes GENERATED ⓘ |
| habitat | freshwater GENERATED ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
carp-like body form
GENERATED
ⓘ
freshwater adaptation GENERATED ⓘ |
| hasFinType | ray-finned GENERATED ⓘ |
| hasScientificNameOfTypeSpecies | Tinca tinca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isBestKnownFor | tench GENERATED ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| nativeTo | Eurasia GENERATED ⓘ |
| order | Cypriniformes GENERATED ⓘ |
| parentTaxon | Cyprinidae GENERATED ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus GENERATED ⓘ |
| typicalEnvironment |
lakes
GENERATED
ⓘ
rivers GENERATED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
angling
GENERATED
ⓘ
food fish GENERATED ⓘ |
| waterType | freshwater GENERATED ⓘ |
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: Tinca Description of subject: Tinca is a genus of freshwater fish in the carp family, best known for the tench commonly found in European and Asian lakes and rivers.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.