Leuciscidae
E232115
Leuciscidae is a family of freshwater fishes commonly known as true minnows and their relatives, widely distributed across the Northern Hemisphere.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Leuciscidae canonical | 31 |
| Leuciscinae | 6 |
| Leuciscidae (true minnows) | 1 |
| leuciscids | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2038591 — 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: Leuciscidae Context triple: [Cypriniformes, includes, Leuciscidae]
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Cyprinidae
Cyprinidae is a large family of freshwater fishes that includes carps, minnows, and their relatives, widely distributed across Eurasia, Africa, and North America.
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B.
Salmonidae
Salmonidae is the fish family that includes salmon, trout, chars, freshwater whitefishes, and graylings, many of which are ecologically and economically important cold-water species.
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Epigonichthys
Epigonichthys is a genus of small, eel-like lancelets within the subphylum Cephalochordata, known for their simple, fish-like bodies that provide key insights into early chordate evolution.
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D.
Nemacheilidae
Nemacheilidae is a family of small, bottom-dwelling freshwater fishes commonly known as stone loaches, found primarily in fast-flowing streams across Eurasia.
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E.
Cypriniformes
Cypriniformes is a large order of ray-finned freshwater fishes that includes carps, minnows, loaches, and related species found worldwide.
- 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: Leuciscidae Target entity description: Leuciscidae is a family of freshwater fishes commonly known as true minnows and their relatives, widely distributed across the Northern Hemisphere.
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A.
Cyprinidae
Cyprinidae is a large family of freshwater fishes that includes carps, minnows, and their relatives, widely distributed across Eurasia, Africa, and North America.
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B.
Salmonidae
Salmonidae is the fish family that includes salmon, trout, chars, freshwater whitefishes, and graylings, many of which are ecologically and economically important cold-water species.
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C.
Epigonichthys
Epigonichthys is a genus of small, eel-like lancelets within the subphylum Cephalochordata, known for their simple, fish-like bodies that provide key insights into early chordate evolution.
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D.
Nemacheilidae
Nemacheilidae is a family of small, bottom-dwelling freshwater fishes commonly known as stone loaches, found primarily in fast-flowing streams across Eurasia.
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E.
Schilbeidae
Schilbeidae is a family of freshwater catfishes native mainly to Africa and parts of Asia, known for their slender bodies and often schooling behavior.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Leuciscidae Description of subject: Leuciscidae is a family of freshwater fishes commonly known as true minnows and their relatives, widely distributed across the Northern Hemisphere.
Referenced by (39)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Margariscus
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Margariscus