Apis florea
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Apis florea is a small, wild dwarf honey bee native to South and Southeast Asia, known for building single, exposed combs on tree branches and other open sites.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Apis florea canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4052346 — 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: Apis florea Context triple: [Apis, includesSpecies, Apis florea]
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A.
Polistes nimpha
Polistes nimpha is a species of paper wasp found across much of Europe and parts of Asia, known for its open-comb nests and social colony structure.
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B.
Polistes dominulus
Polistes dominulus is a widespread European paper wasp species known for its distinctive yellow-and-black coloration and for building open, umbrella-shaped nests in human-inhabited areas.
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C.
Ropalidia
Ropalidia is a genus of social paper wasps found primarily in the Old World tropics, known for their diverse nesting behaviors and complex colony organization.
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D.
Polistes exclamans
Polistes exclamans is a species of social paper wasp native to North America, known for its open-comb nests and complex colony behavior.
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E.
Polistes dorsalis
Polistes dorsalis is a species of paper wasp native to North America, known for its distinctive yellow and brown coloration and for building open, umbrella-shaped nests.
- 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: Apis florea Target entity description: Apis florea is a small, wild dwarf honey bee native to South and Southeast Asia, known for building single, exposed combs on tree branches and other open sites.
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A.
Polistes nimpha
Polistes nimpha is a species of paper wasp found across much of Europe and parts of Asia, known for its open-comb nests and social colony structure.
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B.
Polistes dominulus
Polistes dominulus is a widespread European paper wasp species known for its distinctive yellow-and-black coloration and for building open, umbrella-shaped nests in human-inhabited areas.
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C.
Ropalidia
Ropalidia is a genus of social paper wasps found primarily in the Old World tropics, known for their diverse nesting behaviors and complex colony organization.
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D.
Polistes exclamans
Polistes exclamans is a species of social paper wasp native to North America, known for its open-comb nests and complex colony behavior.
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E.
Polistes dorsalis
Polistes dorsalis is a species of paper wasp native to North America, known for its distinctive yellow and brown coloration and for building open, umbrella-shaped nests.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
honey bee
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species of bee ⓘ |
| bodySize | small ⓘ |
| casteSystem |
drones
ⓘ
queen ⓘ workers ⓘ |
| class | Insecta ⓘ |
| colonySize | small colonies ⓘ |
| commonName |
dwarf honey bee
ⓘ
red dwarf honey bee ⓘ |
| communication | waggle dance ⓘ |
| describedBy |
Johann Christian Fabricius
ⓘ
surface form:
Johan Christian Fabricius
|
| distributionCountry |
Cambodia
ⓘ
India ⓘ Laos ⓘ Myanmar ⓘ Pakistan ⓘ Sri Lanka ⓘ Thailand ⓘ Viet Nam ⓘ
surface form:
Vietnam
|
| family | Apidae ⓘ |
| foragingBehavior | diurnal ⓘ |
| genus | Apis ⓘ |
| habitat |
subtropical regions
ⓘ
tropical regions ⓘ |
| introducedRange |
East Africa
ⓘ
Iran ⓘ Oman ⓘ Saudi Arabia ⓘ Sudan ⓘ Yemen ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| nativeRange |
Middle East
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South Asia ⓘ Southeast Asia ⓘ |
| nestDefense | shimmering behavior ⓘ |
| nestSite |
human-made structures
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shrubs ⓘ tree branches ⓘ |
| nestType | single exposed comb ⓘ |
| order | Hymenoptera NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| phylum | Arthropoda ⓘ |
| pollinationRole |
crop pollinator
ⓘ
wild plant pollinator ⓘ |
| product |
honey
ⓘ
wax ⓘ |
| socialStructure | eusocial ⓘ |
| subfamily | Apinae ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| tribe | Apini ⓘ |
| yearDescribed | 1787 ⓘ |
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: Apis florea Description of subject: Apis florea is a small, wild dwarf honey bee native to South and Southeast Asia, known for building single, exposed combs on tree branches and other open sites.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.