family Trichonotidae
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The family Trichonotidae is a small group of marine gobioid fishes, commonly known as sand-divers, characterized by their elongated bodies and burrowing behavior in sandy substrates of tropical and subtropical seas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| family Trichonotidae canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10897816 — 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: family Trichonotidae Context triple: [Gobioidei, includes, family Trichonotidae]
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A.
Fundulidae
Fundulidae is a family of small ray-finned fishes commonly known as topminnows and killifishes, found primarily in freshwater and coastal habitats of North and Central America.
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B.
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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C.
Nandiniidae
Nandiniidae is a small family of African carnivorous mammals best known for the African palm civet, a solitary, arboreal species with a cat-like appearance.
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D.
Traguloidea
Traguloidea is a superfamily of small, primitive ruminant mammals commonly known as chevrotains or mouse deer.
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E.
Leiothrichidae
Leiothrichidae is a family of passerine birds that includes laughingthrushes, babblers, and related species, primarily found in Asia and parts of Africa.
- 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: family Trichonotidae Target entity description: The family Trichonotidae is a small group of marine gobioid fishes, commonly known as sand-divers, characterized by their elongated bodies and burrowing behavior in sandy substrates of tropical and subtropical seas.
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A.
Fundulidae
Fundulidae is a family of small ray-finned fishes commonly known as topminnows and killifishes, found primarily in freshwater and coastal habitats of North and Central America.
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B.
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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C.
Nandiniidae
Nandiniidae is a small family of African carnivorous mammals best known for the African palm civet, a solitary, arboreal species with a cat-like appearance.
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Traguloidea
Traguloidea is a superfamily of small, primitive ruminant mammals commonly known as chevrotains or mouse deer.
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E.
Leiothrichidae
Leiothrichidae is a family of passerine birds that includes laughingthrushes, babblers, and related species, primarily found in Asia and parts of Africa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fish family
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ray-finned fish family ⓘ taxon ⓘ |
| adaptation | burrowing morphology ⓘ |
| behavior |
burrowing in sand
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sand-diving ⓘ |
| bodyShape | elongated body ⓘ |
| class | Actinopterygii ⓘ |
| commonName | sand-divers ⓘ |
| contains | Trichonotus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| diet | small invertebrates ⓘ |
| distribution | Indo-Pacific region ⓘ |
| ecologicalNiche | benthic fishes ⓘ |
| environment | saltwater ⓘ |
| feedingType | carnivorous ⓘ |
| finType | ray-finned ⓘ |
| habitat |
marine environment
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sandy substrates ⓘ subtropical seas ⓘ tropical seas ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| lifestyle | demersal ⓘ |
| locomotion | undulatory swimming near substrate ⓘ |
| order | Gobiiformes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproduction | oviparous ⓘ |
| suborder | Gobioidei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| superfamily | Gobioidea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| taxonRank | family ⓘ |
| vernacularName | sand-diver family ⓘ |
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: family Trichonotidae Description of subject: The family Trichonotidae is a small group of marine gobioid fishes, commonly known as sand-divers, characterized by their elongated bodies and burrowing behavior in sandy substrates of tropical and subtropical seas.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.