Neostethus
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Neostethus is a genus of small, livebearing freshwater fishes in the family Phallostethidae, known for their unusual reproductive morphology and Southeast Asian distribution.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Neostethus canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10435942 — 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: Neostethus Context triple: [Phallostethidae, includesGenus, Neostethus]
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A.
Anthedon
Anthedon was an ancient Boeotian coastal town in Greece, known in mythology as a center of marine cults and particularly associated with the sea-god Glaucus.
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B.
Phylacus
Phylacus is a figure from Greek mythology known as a leader of the Magnetes, a Thessalian people mentioned in epic tradition.
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C.
Cyanippus
Cyanippus is a minor figure in Greek mythology known primarily as the brother of Argia.
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D.
Clytoneus
Clytoneus is a minor figure in Greek mythology, known as one of the sons of King Alcinous of the Phaeacians in Homer’s Odyssey.
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E.
Pterelaus
Pterelaus is a mythological king in Greek legend, known for his golden, immortality-granting hair and his conflict with Amphitryon over the kingdom of the Taphians.
- 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: Neostethus Target entity description: Neostethus is a genus of small, livebearing freshwater fishes in the family Phallostethidae, known for their unusual reproductive morphology and Southeast Asian distribution.
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A.
Anthedon
Anthedon was an ancient Boeotian coastal town in Greece, known in mythology as a center of marine cults and particularly associated with the sea-god Glaucus.
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B.
Phylacus
Phylacus is a figure from Greek mythology known as a leader of the Magnetes, a Thessalian people mentioned in epic tradition.
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C.
Cyanippus
Cyanippus is a minor figure in Greek mythology known primarily as the brother of Argia.
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D.
Clytoneus
Clytoneus is a minor figure in Greek mythology, known as one of the sons of King Alcinous of the Phaeacians in Homer’s Odyssey.
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E.
Pterelaus
Pterelaus is a mythological king in Greek legend, known for his golden, immortality-granting hair and his conflict with Amphitryon over the kingdom of the Taphians.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
genus of fish
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taxon ⓘ |
| belongsTo | ray-finned fishes ⓘ |
| bodyWater |
freshwater lakes
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freshwater rivers ⓘ freshwater streams ⓘ |
| characteristic |
small body size
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unusual reproductive morphology ⓘ |
| class | Actinopterygii ⓘ |
| distribution | Southeast Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ecologicalNiche | small freshwater insectivore ⓘ |
| family | Phallostethidae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| feedingType | microcarnivore ⓘ |
| firstDescriptionCentury | 20th century ⓘ |
| habitat | freshwater ⓘ |
| hasSpecies |
Neostethus amaricola
NERFINISHED
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Neostethus bicornis NERFINISHED ⓘ Neostethus borneensis NERFINISHED ⓘ Neostethus ctenophorus NERFINISHED ⓘ Neostethus djajaorum NERFINISHED ⓘ Neostethus geminus NERFINISHED ⓘ Neostethus lankesteri NERFINISHED ⓘ Neostethus palawanensis NERFINISHED ⓘ Neostethus robertsi NERFINISHED ⓘ Neostethus thessa NERFINISHED ⓘ Neostethus villadolidi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| lifestyle | free-living ⓘ |
| maleReproductiveOrganLocation | anterior ventral region ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Neostethus (type genus of subfamily Neostethinae) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeRange |
Borneo
NERFINISHED
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Philippines NERFINISHED ⓘ Sulawesi NERFINISHED ⓘ other parts of Maritime Southeast Asia ⓘ |
| order | Atheriniformes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproduction | livebearing ⓘ |
| reproductiveMode | internal fertilization ⓘ |
| sexualDimorphism | present ⓘ |
| skeletonType | bony ⓘ |
| subfamily | Neostethinae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| waterType | tropical ⓘ |
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: Neostethus Description of subject: Neostethus is a genus of small, livebearing freshwater fishes in the family Phallostethidae, known for their unusual reproductive morphology and Southeast Asian distribution.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.