Obelia
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Obelia is a genus of small, colonial marine hydrozoans known for their delicate, branching colonies and alternation of polyp and medusa life stages.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Obelia canonical | 1 |
| Obelia dichotoma | 1 |
| Obelia geniculata | 1 |
| Obelia longissima | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3936938 — 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: Obelia Context triple: [Hydrozoa, hasMember, Obelia]
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A.
Excavata
Excavata is a major supergroup of unicellular eukaryotes characterized by a ventral feeding groove and often modified mitochondria, including many free-living flagellates and important parasites.
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B.
Cyclomedusa
Cyclomedusa is a disc-shaped fossil organism from the Ediacaran period, interpreted as part of the early complex multicellular life that preceded the Cambrian explosion.
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C.
Mycale
Mycale is a promontory on the western coast of Asia Minor, near the island of Samos, known in antiquity as the site of a decisive Greek victory over the Persians during the Greco-Persian Wars.
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D.
Charniodiscus
Charniodiscus is an extinct genus of frond-like marine organisms from the Ediacaran Period, known from soft-bodied fossils that represent some of the earliest complex multicellular life.
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E.
Jellyfish
Jellyfish is an American power pop band known for its lush harmonies, Beatlesque songwriting, and cult following in the early 1990s.
- 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: Obelia Target entity description: Obelia is a genus of small, colonial marine hydrozoans known for their delicate, branching colonies and alternation of polyp and medusa life stages.
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A.
Excavata
Excavata is a major supergroup of unicellular eukaryotes characterized by a ventral feeding groove and often modified mitochondria, including many free-living flagellates and important parasites.
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B.
Stauromedusae
Stauromedusae are a distinctive order of stalked, sessile jellyfish that attach to substrates in cold, shallow marine waters rather than swimming freely like typical medusae.
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C.
Cyclomedusa
Cyclomedusa is a disc-shaped fossil organism from the Ediacaran period, interpreted as part of the early complex multicellular life that preceded the Cambrian explosion.
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D.
Mycale
Mycale is a promontory on the western coast of Asia Minor, near the island of Samos, known in antiquity as the site of a decisive Greek victory over the Persians during the Greco-Persian Wars.
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E.
Charniodiscus
Charniodiscus is an extinct genus of frond-like marine organisms from the Ediacaran Period, known from soft-bodied fossils that represent some of the earliest complex multicellular life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
genus
ⓘ
hydrozoan genus ⓘ |
| attachment | polyps attached to substrate ⓘ |
| bodyPlan | diploblastic ⓘ |
| class | Hydrozoa ⓘ |
| colonyMorphology | delicate branching hydrocaulus ⓘ |
| colonyType |
branched colony
ⓘ
hydroid colony ⓘ |
| describedAs | small colonial hydroid ⓘ |
| diet |
plankton
ⓘ
small crustaceans ⓘ |
| distribution | worldwide oceans ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole |
planktonic predator
ⓘ
prey for fish and invertebrates ⓘ |
| family | Campanulariidae ⓘ |
| feedingStructure | tentacles with nematocysts ⓘ |
| firstDescriptionYear | 1810 ⓘ |
| foundOn |
man-made submerged structures
ⓘ
rocks ⓘ seaweeds ⓘ |
| habitat |
marine environment
ⓘ
shallow coastal waters ⓘ |
| hasCellType | cnidocyte ⓘ |
| hasGenusAuthority | Péron and Lesueur ⓘ |
| isA |
cnidarian
ⓘ
colonial marine hydrozoan ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| larvalStage | planula larva ⓘ |
| lifeCycle | alternation of generations ⓘ |
| lifeStage |
medusa
ⓘ
polyp ⓘ |
| locomotion | medusae swim by jet propulsion ⓘ |
| medusaFunction | free-swimming sexual stage ⓘ |
| notableSpecies |
Obelia
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Obelia dichotoma
Obelia self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Obelia geniculata
Obelia self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Obelia longissima
|
| order | Leptothecata ⓘ |
| phylum | Cnidaria ⓘ |
| polypFunction | sessile feeding stage ⓘ |
| polypType |
dactylozooid
ⓘ
gastrozooid ⓘ gonozooid ⓘ |
| reproduction |
asexual reproduction by budding
ⓘ
sexual reproduction via medusae ⓘ |
| researchUse |
model for cnidarian development
ⓘ
model organism for studying alternation of generations ⓘ |
| symmetry | radial symmetry ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
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: Obelia Description of subject: Obelia is a genus of small, colonial marine hydrozoans known for their delicate, branching colonies and alternation of polyp and medusa life stages.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Obelia geniculata
this entity surface form:
Obelia dichotoma
this entity surface form:
Obelia longissima