Megachile
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Megachile is a large genus of leafcutter and resin bees known for cutting pieces of leaves or petals to construct their nests.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Megachile canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17581713 — 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: Megachile Context triple: [Megachilidae, namedAfter, Megachile]
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A.
Megachilidae
Megachilidae is a family of solitary bees, including leafcutter and mason bees, known for their distinctive pollen-carrying structures on the underside of the abdomen and their use of plant material or mud to construct nests.
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B.
Anthophila
Anthophila is the clade comprising all bees, a diverse group of pollinating insects closely related to wasps within the superfamily Apoidea.
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C.
Andrena
Andrena is a large genus of solitary mining bees commonly found in temperate regions, known for nesting in the ground and playing important roles as pollinators.
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D.
Colletes
Colletes is a genus of solitary bees, commonly known as plasterer or cellophane bees, noted for lining their nest cells with a distinctive waterproof secretion.
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E.
Polistes
Polistes is a widespread genus of social paper wasps known for building open, umbrella-shaped nests and playing important ecological roles as predators of pest insects.
- 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: Megachile Target entity description: Megachile is a large genus of leafcutter and resin bees known for cutting pieces of leaves or petals to construct their nests.
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A.
Megachilidae
Megachilidae is a family of solitary bees, including leafcutter and mason bees, known for their distinctive pollen-carrying structures on the underside of the abdomen and their use of plant material or mud to construct nests.
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B.
Anthophila
Anthophila is the clade comprising all bees, a diverse group of pollinating insects closely related to wasps within the superfamily Apoidea.
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C.
Andrena
Andrena is a large genus of solitary mining bees commonly found in temperate regions, known for nesting in the ground and playing important roles as pollinators.
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D.
Colletes
Colletes is a genus of solitary bees, commonly known as plasterer or cellophane bees, noted for lining their nest cells with a distinctive waterproof secretion.
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E.
Polistes
Polistes is a widespread genus of social paper wasps known for building open, umbrella-shaped nests and playing important ecological roles as predators of pest insects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.