Arapaimidae
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Arapaimidae is a family of large, air-breathing freshwater fishes from South America, best known for the arapaima, one of the world’s largest river fish.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Arapaimidae canonical | 2 |
| Arapaima | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2267286 — 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: Arapaimidae Context triple: [Osteoglossiformes, includesFamily, Arapaimidae]
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A.
Pimelodidae
Pimelodidae is a family of freshwater catfishes, commonly known as long-whiskered catfishes, native primarily to Central and South America.
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B.
Siluriformes
Siluriformes is the diverse order of ray-finned fishes commonly known as catfishes, characterized by barbels resembling whiskers and often bottom-dwelling habits in freshwater and some marine environments.
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C.
Callichthyidae
Callichthyidae is a family of armored freshwater catfish, commonly known as Corydoras and their relatives, native primarily to South America.
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D.
Hoplichthyidae
Hoplichthyidae is a family of benthic marine fishes, commonly known as ghost flatheads, found on continental shelves and slopes of the Indo-Pacific region.
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E.
Plotosidae
Plotosidae is a family of eel-tailed catfishes known for their elongated bodies and often venomous fin spines, found primarily in marine and freshwater habitats of the Indo-Pacific region.
- 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: Arapaimidae Target entity description: Arapaimidae is a family of large, air-breathing freshwater fishes from South America, best known for the arapaima, one of the world’s largest river fish.
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A.
Pimelodidae
Pimelodidae is a family of freshwater catfishes, commonly known as long-whiskered catfishes, native primarily to Central and South America.
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B.
Siluriformes
Siluriformes is the diverse order of ray-finned fishes commonly known as catfishes, characterized by barbels resembling whiskers and often bottom-dwelling habits in freshwater and some marine environments.
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C.
Callichthyidae
Callichthyidae is a family of armored freshwater catfish, commonly known as Corydoras and their relatives, native primarily to South America.
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D.
Hoplichthyidae
Hoplichthyidae is a family of benthic marine fishes, commonly known as ghost flatheads, found on continental shelves and slopes of the Indo-Pacific region.
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E.
Plotosidae
Plotosidae is a family of eel-tailed catfishes known for their elongated bodies and often venomous fin spines, found primarily in marine and freshwater habitats of the Indo-Pacific region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fish family
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| belongsToGroup | osteoglossid fishes ⓘ |
| bodyShape | elongated ⓘ |
| class | Actinopterygii ⓘ |
| commonName | arapaimas ⓘ |
| diet | carnivorous ⓘ |
| distributionRegion |
Amazon Basin
ⓘ
Essequibo ⓘ
surface form:
Essequibo Basin
Orinoco Basin ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole | top predator in freshwater ecosystems ⓘ |
| economicImportance |
fisheries resource
ⓘ
food fish ⓘ |
| habitat |
floodplain lakes
ⓘ
freshwater ⓘ rivers ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
modified swim bladder used as lung
ⓘ
obligate air breathing in adults ⓘ |
| includesTaxon |
Arapaima gigas
ⓘ
surface form:
Arapaima agassizii
Arapaima gigas ⓘ Arapaima gigas ⓘ
surface form:
Arapaima leptosoma
Arapaima mapae ⓘ Heterotis ⓘ
surface form:
Heterotis niloticus
|
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| nativeTo | South America ⓘ |
| notableFor |
including some of the world’s largest river fish
ⓘ
large body size ⓘ |
| order | Osteoglossiformes ⓘ |
| parentalCare | present ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproduction | egg-laying ⓘ |
| respiration |
air-breathing
ⓘ
gill-breathing ⓘ |
| scientificNameAuthorship | Bonaparte, 1846 ⓘ |
| skeletonType | bony fish ⓘ |
| taxonRank | family ⓘ |
| threat |
habitat degradation
ⓘ
overfishing ⓘ |
| typeGenus |
Arapaima gigas
ⓘ
surface form:
Arapaima
|
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: Arapaimidae Description of subject: Arapaimidae is a family of large, air-breathing freshwater fishes from South America, best known for the arapaima, one of the world’s largest river fish.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Arapaima