Stenogaster
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Stenogaster is a genus of hover wasps known for their slender bodies, hovering flight, and primitively eusocial nesting behavior in tropical Asia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Stenogaster canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2937117 — 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: Stenogaster Context triple: [Stenogastrinae, includesTaxon, Stenogaster]
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A.
Paracanthurus hepatus
Paracanthurus hepatus is a brightly colored Indo-Pacific reef fish, commonly known as the blue tang or regal tang, popularized worldwide by the character Dory in the film "Finding Nemo."
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B.
Poecilia
Poecilia is a genus of small freshwater fish that includes popular aquarium species such as guppies and mollies.
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C.
Pangasiidae
Pangasiidae is a family of freshwater catfishes native mainly to rivers in South and Southeast Asia, including several species important in aquaculture and food fisheries.
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D.
Taroa
Taroa is the main settlement and administrative center of Maloelap Atoll in the Marshall Islands, known historically for its World War II-era Japanese airbase.
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E.
Ancylus fluviatilis
Ancylus fluviatilis is a small freshwater limpet-like snail (an aquatic gastropod mollusk) commonly found in European rivers and streams.
- 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: Stenogaster Target entity description: Stenogaster is a genus of hover wasps known for their slender bodies, hovering flight, and primitively eusocial nesting behavior in tropical Asia.
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A.
Paracanthurus hepatus
Paracanthurus hepatus is a brightly colored Indo-Pacific reef fish, commonly known as the blue tang or regal tang, popularized worldwide by the character Dory in the film "Finding Nemo."
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B.
Poecilia
Poecilia is a genus of small freshwater fish that includes popular aquarium species such as guppies and mollies.
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C.
Pangasiidae
Pangasiidae is a family of freshwater catfishes native mainly to rivers in South and Southeast Asia, including several species important in aquaculture and food fisheries.
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D.
Taroa
Taroa is the main settlement and administrative center of Maloelap Atoll in the Marshall Islands, known historically for its World War II-era Japanese airbase.
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E.
Ancylus fluviatilis
Ancylus fluviatilis is a small freshwater limpet-like snail (an aquatic gastropod mollusk) commonly found in European rivers and streams.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
genus
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| adultRole | foraging for prey ⓘ |
| belongsToGroup |
aculeate wasps
ⓘ
social wasps ⓘ |
| bodySegmentation | head thorax abdomen ⓘ |
| bodyShape | slender body ⓘ |
| class | Insecta ⓘ |
| colonyOrganization | queen and workers ⓘ |
| commonName | hover wasps ⓘ |
| communication | behavioral signals within colony ⓘ |
| describedAs | hover wasps of tropical Asia ⓘ |
| developmentType | holometabolous ⓘ |
| diet | arthropods ⓘ |
| distribution | tropical Asia ⓘ |
| family | Vespidae ⓘ |
| flightStyle | hovering flight ⓘ |
| habitat |
subtropical forests
ⓘ
tropical forests ⓘ |
| hasStinger | true ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| larvalStage | grub-like larvae ⓘ |
| lifestyle | predatory ⓘ |
| nestingBehavior | primitively eusocial nesting ⓘ |
| nestLocation |
sheltered vegetation
ⓘ
undersides of leaves ⓘ |
| nestType | small paper nests ⓘ |
| order | Hymenoptera ⓘ |
| parentTaxon |
Stenogastrinae
ⓘ
Vespidae ⓘ |
| phylum | Arthropoda ⓘ |
| reproduction | oviparous ⓘ |
| reproductiveSystem | eusocial colony structure ⓘ |
| researchUse | model for study of social evolution in wasps ⓘ |
| socialBehavior | primitively eusocial ⓘ |
| subfamily | Stenogastrinae ⓘ |
| superfamily | Vespoidea ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| wingType | membranous wings ⓘ |
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: Stenogaster Description of subject: Stenogaster is a genus of hover wasps known for their slender bodies, hovering flight, and primitively eusocial nesting behavior in tropical Asia.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.