New World silversides
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New World silversides are a family of small, schooling coastal and freshwater fishes found primarily in the Americas, known for their slender bodies and distinctive silvery lateral stripe.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| New World silversides canonical | 1 |
| new world smelts | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10549321 — 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: New World silversides Context triple: [Atherinopsidae, commonName, New World silversides]
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A.
New World vultures
New World vultures are a family of scavenging birds of prey native to the Americas, known for their keen sense of smell and ecological role in consuming carrion.
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B.
New World
New World is a South Korean crime thriller film in which Lee Jung-jae plays a central role in a tense story of undercover operations and power struggles within a powerful crime syndicate.
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C.
New World
"New World" is the closing song of the 2000 musical drama film *Dancer in the Dark*, written and performed by Björk.
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D.
New World
The New World refers to the Western Hemisphere, especially the Americas, as distinguished from the Old World of Europe, Asia, and Africa.
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E.
New World
"New World" is a later studio album by British rock band The Zombies that showcases their melodic pop-rock style in a post-1960s context.
- 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: New World silversides Target entity description: New World silversides are a family of small, schooling coastal and freshwater fishes found primarily in the Americas, known for their slender bodies and distinctive silvery lateral stripe.
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A.
New World vultures
New World vultures are a family of scavenging birds of prey native to the Americas, known for their keen sense of smell and ecological role in consuming carrion.
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B.
New World
New World is a South Korean crime thriller film in which Lee Jung-jae plays a central role in a tense story of undercover operations and power struggles within a powerful crime syndicate.
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C.
New World
"New World" is the closing song of the 2000 musical drama film *Dancer in the Dark*, written and performed by Björk.
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D.
New World
The New World refers to the Western Hemisphere, especially the Americas, as distinguished from the Old World of Europe, Asia, and Africa.
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E.
New World
"New World" is a later studio album by British rock band The Zombies that showcases their melodic pop-rock style in a post-1960s context.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fish family
ⓘ
ray-finned fish ⓘ |
| activityPattern | diurnal ⓘ |
| behavior | schooling ⓘ |
| bodyShape | slender ⓘ |
| class | Actinopterygii ⓘ |
| commercialUse |
bait fish
ⓘ
local food fish ⓘ |
| commonName | New World silversides ⓘ |
| contains |
Allanetta
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Atherinops ⓘ Atherinopsis ⓘ Basilichthys NERFINISHED ⓘ Chirostoma NERFINISHED ⓘ Colpichthys NERFINISHED ⓘ Hypoatherina NERFINISHED ⓘ Hysterocarpus NERFINISHED ⓘ Iso ⓘ Leuresthes NERFINISHED ⓘ Menidia ⓘ Neotoca NERFINISHED ⓘ Odontesthes NERFINISHED ⓘ Poblana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| diet |
plankton
ⓘ
small invertebrates ⓘ |
| distinctiveFeature | silvery lateral stripe ⓘ |
| distinguishedFrom | Atherinidae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole | forage fish ⓘ |
| eyePosition | lateral ⓘ |
| finType | soft-rayed ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution |
Americas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New World ⓘ |
| habitat |
coastal waters
ⓘ
freshwater ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| lateralLine | incomplete or absent ⓘ |
| morphologicalFeature |
small terminal mouth
ⓘ
two dorsal fins ⓘ |
| order | Atheriniformes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Old World silversides ⓘ |
| reproduction | egg-laying ⓘ |
| scientificName | Atherinopsidae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| taxonRank | family ⓘ |
| typicalSize | small ⓘ |
| waterType |
brackish
ⓘ
freshwater ⓘ marine ⓘ |
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: New World silversides Description of subject: New World silversides are a family of small, schooling coastal and freshwater fishes found primarily in the Americas, known for their slender bodies and distinctive silvery lateral stripe.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
new world smelts