Indostomidae
E857195
Indostomidae is a small family of tiny, armored freshwater fishes native to South and Southeast Asia, known for their elongated bodies and distinctive bony plates.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Indostomidae canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10348000 — 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: Indostomidae Context triple: [Gasterosteoidei, hasMember, Indostomidae]
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A.
Iniidae
Iniidae is a family of river dolphins found in South American freshwater systems, including the Amazon and Orinoco river basins.
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B.
Kogiidae
Kogiidae is a family of small toothed whales that includes the pygmy and dwarf sperm whales, known for their deep-diving behavior and resemblance to the larger sperm whale.
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C.
Procaviidae
Procaviidae is a family of small, herbivorous mammals known as hyraxes, native to Africa and the Middle East and notable for being closely related to elephants and manatees despite their rodent-like appearance.
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D.
Trichodontidae
Trichodontidae is a small family of marine ray-finned fishes, commonly known as sandfishes, found in cold coastal waters of the North Pacific.
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E.
Nomadinae
Nomadinae is a subfamily of parasitic cuckoo bees within the family Apidae, known for laying their eggs in the nests of other bee species.
- 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: Indostomidae Target entity description: Indostomidae is a small family of tiny, armored freshwater fishes native to South and Southeast Asia, known for their elongated bodies and distinctive bony plates.
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A.
Iniidae
Iniidae is a family of river dolphins found in South American freshwater systems, including the Amazon and Orinoco river basins.
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B.
Kogiidae
Kogiidae is a family of small toothed whales that includes the pygmy and dwarf sperm whales, known for their deep-diving behavior and resemblance to the larger sperm whale.
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C.
Procaviidae
Procaviidae is a family of small, herbivorous mammals known as hyraxes, native to Africa and the Middle East and notable for being closely related to elephants and manatees despite their rodent-like appearance.
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D.
Trichodontidae
Trichodontidae is a small family of marine ray-finned fishes, commonly known as sandfishes, found in cold coastal waters of the North Pacific.
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E.
Nomadinae
Nomadinae is a subfamily of parasitic cuckoo bees within the family Apidae, known for laying their eggs in the nests of other bee species.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fish family
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| bodyCovering | bony plates ⓘ |
| bodyShape | elongated ⓘ |
| bodySize | tiny ⓘ |
| class | Actinopterygii ⓘ |
| containsGenus | Indostomus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsSpecies |
Indostomus crocodilus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Indostomus paradoxus NERFINISHED ⓘ Indostomus spinosus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| diet | small aquatic invertebrates ⓘ |
| distributionRegion | Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole | small benthic insectivore ⓘ |
| feedingType | micropredator ⓘ |
| foundIn |
ditches
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rice paddies ⓘ vegetated marginal zones of streams ⓘ |
| habitat |
flooded fields
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freshwater ⓘ slow-moving streams ⓘ swamps ⓘ |
| hasCommonName |
armored stickleback relatives
ⓘ
indostomids ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| maximumLength | about 3.5 cm ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Cambodia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
India NERFINISHED ⓘ Laos NERFINISHED ⓘ Myanmar NERFINISHED ⓘ South Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ Southeast Asia ⓘ Thailand NERFINISHED ⓘ Vietnam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableTrait |
armored body with external bony plates
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tubular, elongated body form ⓘ very small adult size ⓘ |
| order |
Gasterosteiformes
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Synbranchiformes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parentalCare | male egg guarding ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproduction | egg-laying ⓘ |
| skeletonType | bony fish ⓘ |
| superorder | Acanthopterygii NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| taxonRank | family ⓘ |
| typeGenus | Indostomus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| 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: Indostomidae Description of subject: Indostomidae is a small family of tiny, armored freshwater fishes native to South and Southeast Asia, known for their elongated bodies and distinctive bony plates.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.