Goodeidae
E262697
Goodeidae is a family of freshwater fishes, commonly known as goodeids, native primarily to Mexico and known for their distinctive live-bearing reproductive strategy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Goodeidae canonical | 28 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2396289 — 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: Goodeidae Context triple: [Cyprinodontiformes, hasMember, Goodeidae]
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A.
Oceanitidae
Oceanitidae is a family of small seabirds known as southern storm petrels, typically found over open oceans in the Southern Hemisphere.
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B.
Ostraciidae
Ostraciidae is a family of boxfishes known for their rigid, box-like bony carapace and often bright, patterned coloration in tropical and subtropical marine waters.
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C.
Gasterosteoidei
Gasterosteoidei is a suborder of ray-finned fishes that includes sticklebacks and their close relatives, characterized by spiny armor and often reduced scales.
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D.
Synanceiidae
Synanceiidae is a family of venomous marine fish commonly known as stonefishes, notorious for being among the most poisonous fish in the world.
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E.
Mytilinidiales
Mytilinidiales is an order of fungi within the class Sordariomycetes, comprising ascomycetous species often associated with plant material and wood.
- 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: Goodeidae Target entity description: Goodeidae is a family of freshwater fishes, commonly known as goodeids, native primarily to Mexico and known for their distinctive live-bearing reproductive strategy.
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A.
Oceanitidae
Oceanitidae is a family of small seabirds known as southern storm petrels, typically found over open oceans in the Southern Hemisphere.
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B.
Ostraciidae
Ostraciidae is a family of boxfishes known for their rigid, box-like bony carapace and often bright, patterned coloration in tropical and subtropical marine waters.
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C.
Gasterosteoidei
Gasterosteoidei is a suborder of ray-finned fishes that includes sticklebacks and their close relatives, characterized by spiny armor and often reduced scales.
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D.
Synanceiidae
Synanceiidae is a family of venomous marine fish commonly known as stonefishes, notorious for being among the most poisonous fish in the world.
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E.
Mytilinidiales
Mytilinidiales is an order of fungi within the class Sordariomycetes, comprising ascomycetous species often associated with plant material and wood.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fish family
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taxon ⓘ |
| bodySize | small to medium-sized fishes ⓘ |
| class | Actinopterygii ⓘ |
| commonName | goodeids ⓘ |
| conservationIssue |
habitat loss
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introduction of non-native fishes ⓘ water extraction ⓘ water pollution ⓘ |
| conservationStatus | many species threatened ⓘ |
| contains |
Allodontichthys hubbsi
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Ameca splendens ⓘ Characodon lateralis ⓘ Girardinichthys viviparus ⓘ Ilyodon furcidens ⓘ Skiffia francesae ⓘ Xenotoca eiseni ⓘ Zoogoneticus tequila ⓘ |
| distinctiveFeature |
internal gestation of embryos
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maternal–embryo nutrient transfer ⓘ specialized reproductive structures ⓘ |
| distribution |
Mesa Central of Mexico
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Mexican Plateau ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole |
algae grazer
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insect predator ⓘ |
| fertilization | internal fertilization ⓘ |
| geographicEndemism | high endemism to individual drainages ⓘ |
| habitat | freshwater ⓘ |
| hasSubfamily |
Empetrichthyinae
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Goodeinae ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| namedAfter | George Brown Goode ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Central America
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Mexico ⓘ |
| order | Cyprinodontiformes ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproduction | live-bearing ⓘ |
| reproductiveMode | viviparous ⓘ |
| researchUse |
conservation biology
ⓘ
evolutionary biology ⓘ reproductive biology ⓘ |
| taxonRank | family ⓘ |
| typeOf | Neotropical fish family ⓘ |
| usedIn | aquarium hobby ⓘ |
| waterType |
lakes
ⓘ
rivers ⓘ springs ⓘ streams ⓘ |
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: Goodeidae Description of subject: Goodeidae is a family of freshwater fishes, commonly known as goodeids, native primarily to Mexico and known for their distinctive live-bearing reproductive strategy.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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