Bagridae
E230173
Bagridae is a family of ray-finned catfishes commonly known as bagrid or naked catfishes, found primarily in freshwater habitats across Africa and Asia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bagridae canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2045447 — 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: Bagridae Context triple: [Siluriformes, contains, Bagridae]
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A.
Reduncinae
Reduncinae is a subfamily of African antelopes within the Bovidae family, including species such as reedbucks, kobs, and waterbucks that are typically associated with wetland and grassland habitats.
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B.
Anhimidae
Anhimidae is a small family of South American birds known as screamers, characterized by their large size, loud calls, and partially webbed feet, and are closely related to ducks and geese.
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C.
Entosphenus
Entosphenus is a genus of jawless, eel-like lampreys that includes several parasitic and anadromous species found primarily in North American freshwater and coastal marine environments.
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D.
Nomadinae
Nomadinae is a subfamily of parasitic cuckoo bees within the family Apidae, known for laying their eggs in the nests of other bee species.
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E.
Lipotes
Lipotes is a genus of freshwater river dolphins best known for the baiji, a critically endangered or possibly extinct species once native to China’s Yangtze River.
- 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: Bagridae Target entity description: Bagridae is a family of ray-finned catfishes commonly known as bagrid or naked catfishes, found primarily in freshwater habitats across Africa and Asia.
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A.
Balitoridae
Balitoridae is a family of small, bottom-dwelling freshwater loaches commonly found in fast-flowing streams of Asia and adapted to cling to rocks in strong currents.
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B.
Reduncinae
Reduncinae is a subfamily of African antelopes within the Bovidae family, including species such as reedbucks, kobs, and waterbucks that are typically associated with wetland and grassland habitats.
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C.
Anhimidae
Anhimidae is a small family of South American birds known as screamers, characterized by their large size, loud calls, and partially webbed feet, and are closely related to ducks and geese.
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D.
Entosphenus
Entosphenus is a genus of jawless, eel-like lampreys that includes several parasitic and anadromous species found primarily in North American freshwater and coastal marine environments.
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E.
Nomadinae
Nomadinae is a subfamily of parasitic cuckoo bees within the family Apidae, known for laying their eggs in the nests of other bee species.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fish family
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ray-finned fish family ⓘ taxon ⓘ |
| activityPattern | mostly nocturnal ⓘ |
| belongsToGroup | catfishes ⓘ |
| bodyShape | elongated ⓘ |
| class | Actinopterygii ⓘ |
| commonName |
bagrid catfishes
ⓘ
naked catfishes ⓘ |
| containsTaxon |
Aorichthys
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Bagrus ⓘ Hemibagrus ⓘ Mystus ⓘ Pseudobagrus ⓘ Rita ⓘ |
| describedAs | family of catfishes found in Africa and Asia ⓘ |
| diet |
invertebrates
ⓘ
omnivorous ⓘ small fish ⓘ |
| distribution |
Africa
ⓘ
Asia ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole |
benthic predator
ⓘ
scavenger ⓘ |
| economicUse |
artisanal fisheries
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commercial fisheries ⓘ food fish ⓘ |
| finType |
adipose fin often present
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dorsal fin with spine ⓘ |
| habitat |
freshwater
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lakes ⓘ rivers ⓘ streams ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
barbels around mouth
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benthic lifestyle ⓘ ray-finned ⓘ scaleless body ⓘ |
| hasScientificNameAuthorship | Bleeker ⓘ |
| hasVertebralColumn | true ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| parentTaxon |
Siluriformes
ⓘ
catfish ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproduction | egg-laying ⓘ |
| respiration | gills ⓘ |
| skeletonType | bony ⓘ |
| taxonRank | family ⓘ |
| waterType | freshwater ⓘ |
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: Bagridae Description of subject: Bagridae is a family of ray-finned catfishes commonly known as bagrid or naked catfishes, found primarily in freshwater habitats across Africa and Asia.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.