Amur sturgeon
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The Amur sturgeon is a large, long-lived freshwater fish native to the Amur River basin in East Asia, valued for its caviar and threatened by overfishing and habitat degradation.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Acipenser baerii | 1 |
| Acipenser schrenckii | 1 |
| Amur sturgeon canonical | 1 |
| kaluga sturgeon | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T821450 — 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: Amur sturgeon Context triple: [Amur River, habitatFor, Amur sturgeon]
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A.
Gadus aeglefinus
Gadus aeglefinus is the haddock, a North Atlantic marine fish widely used in traditional smoked and fried dishes.
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B.
Chinook salmon
Chinook salmon is a large, anadromous Pacific salmon species prized for its ecological importance, commercial value, and rich, flavorful flesh.
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C.
Alewife
Alewife is a major subway station and transit hub in North Cambridge, Massachusetts, serving as the northern endpoint of Boston’s MBTA Red Line and a large park-and-ride facility.
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D.
Pacific lamprey
The Pacific lamprey is an ancient, eel-like jawless fish native to the Pacific coast of North America, where it plays a key ecological and cultural role, particularly for Indigenous communities.
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E.
Nile tilapia
Nile tilapia is a widely farmed freshwater fish species native to African river systems, known for its fast growth, adaptability, and importance in global aquaculture and local fisheries.
- 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: Amur sturgeon Target entity description: The Amur sturgeon is a large, long-lived freshwater fish native to the Amur River basin in East Asia, valued for its caviar and threatened by overfishing and habitat degradation.
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A.
Gadus aeglefinus
Gadus aeglefinus is the haddock, a North Atlantic marine fish widely used in traditional smoked and fried dishes.
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B.
Chinook salmon
Chinook salmon is a large, anadromous Pacific salmon species prized for its ecological importance, commercial value, and rich, flavorful flesh.
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C.
Alewife
Alewife is a major subway station and transit hub in North Cambridge, Massachusetts, serving as the northern endpoint of Boston’s MBTA Red Line and a large park-and-ride facility.
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D.
Pacific lamprey
The Pacific lamprey is an ancient, eel-like jawless fish native to the Pacific coast of North America, where it plays a key ecological and cultural role, particularly for Indigenous communities.
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E.
Nile tilapia
Nile tilapia is a widely farmed freshwater fish species native to African river systems, known for its fast growth, adaptability, and importance in global aquaculture and local fisheries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fish
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freshwater fish ⓘ ray-finned fish ⓘ sturgeon ⓘ |
| bodyArmor | bony scutes ⓘ |
| bodyShape | elongated ⓘ |
| class | Actinopterygii ⓘ |
| commonName | Amur sturgeon ⓘ |
| conservationList |
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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surface form:
IUCN Red List
|
| conservationStatus | Endangered ⓘ |
| diet |
benthic invertebrates
ⓘ
small fish ⓘ |
| economicImportance |
aquaculture
ⓘ
commercial fisheries ⓘ |
| family | Acipenseridae ⓘ |
| feedingAdaptation |
barbels in front of mouth
ⓘ
inferior mouth ⓘ |
| foundIn |
China
ⓘ
Russia ⓘ |
| genus | Acipenser ⓘ |
| habitat |
freshwater
ⓘ
large rivers ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| lifespan | long-lived ⓘ |
| managementConcern |
illegal fishing
ⓘ
stock decline ⓘ |
| maximumLength | about 3 meters ⓘ |
| maximumWeight | over 100 kilograms ⓘ |
| migratoryBehavior | anadromous or potamodromous tendencies ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Amur River
ⓘ
surface form:
Amur River basin
East Asia ⓘ |
| order | Acipenseriformes ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproduction |
late sexual maturity
ⓘ
spawns in rivers ⓘ |
| scientificName |
Amur sturgeon
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Acipenser schrenckii
|
| skeletonType | mostly cartilaginous ⓘ |
| snoutType | long snout ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| threat |
habitat degradation
ⓘ
overfishing ⓘ poaching ⓘ pollution ⓘ river regulation ⓘ |
| tradeRegulation |
Appendix II
ⓘ
surface form:
CITES Appendix II
|
| valuedFor |
caviar
ⓘ
meat ⓘ |
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: Amur sturgeon Description of subject: The Amur sturgeon is a large, long-lived freshwater fish native to the Amur River basin in East Asia, valued for its caviar and threatened by overfishing and habitat degradation.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
kaluga sturgeon
this entity surface form:
Acipenser schrenckii
this entity surface form:
Acipenser baerii