Halictidae
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Halictidae is a large and diverse family of bees, commonly known as sweat bees, many of which are attracted to human perspiration and exhibit a wide range of social behaviors.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Halictidae canonical | 4 |
| Halictinae | 1 |
| Lasioglossum | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4052407 — 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: Halictidae Context triple: [Nomadinae, hostGroup, Halictidae]
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A.
Apidae
Apidae is a large and diverse family of bees that includes honey bees, bumblebees, stingless bees, and many other important pollinators found worldwide.
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B.
Apoidea
Apoidea is a large superfamily of bees and related wasps that includes many of the world’s primary pollinators.
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C.
Vespidae
Vespidae is a large family of wasps that includes many social and solitary species such as yellowjackets, hornets, and paper wasps, known for their often complex colony structures and sometimes painful stings.
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D.
Apocrita
Apocrita is a large suborder of insects within the order Hymenoptera that includes wasps, bees, and ants, characterized by a narrow waist separating the thorax and abdomen.
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E.
Anthophorini
Anthophorini is a tribe of long-tongued, often fast-flying solitary bees commonly known as digger or flower bees, recognized for their robust bodies and frequent association with sandy or bare soil nesting sites.
- 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: Halictidae Target entity description: Halictidae is a large and diverse family of bees, commonly known as sweat bees, many of which are attracted to human perspiration and exhibit a wide range of social behaviors.
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A.
Apidae
Apidae is a large and diverse family of bees that includes honey bees, bumblebees, stingless bees, and many other important pollinators found worldwide.
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B.
Apoidea
Apoidea is a large superfamily of bees and related wasps that includes many of the world’s primary pollinators.
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C.
Vespidae
Vespidae is a large family of wasps that includes many social and solitary species such as yellowjackets, hornets, and paper wasps, known for their often complex colony structures and sometimes painful stings.
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D.
Apocrita
Apocrita is a large suborder of insects within the order Hymenoptera that includes wasps, bees, and ants, characterized by a narrow waist separating the thorax and abdomen.
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E.
Anthophorini
Anthophorini is a tribe of long-tongued, often fast-flying solitary bees commonly known as digger or flower bees, recognized for their robust bodies and frequent association with sandy or bare soil nesting sites.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bee family
ⓘ
insect family ⓘ taxon ⓘ |
| adultDiet |
nectar
ⓘ
pollen ⓘ |
| attractedTo |
human perspiration
ⓘ
sweat ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Anthophila ⓘ |
| bodySizeRange | small to medium-sized bees ⓘ |
| class | Insecta ⓘ |
| cleptoparasiticGenera | Sphecodes ⓘ |
| commonName | sweat bees ⓘ |
| contains |
Augochlora
ⓘ
Augochlorella ⓘ Dialictus ⓘ Halictus ⓘ Halictidae self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Lasioglossum
Nomia ⓘ Sphecodes ⓘ |
| describedAs | large and diverse bee family ⓘ |
| ecologicalImportance | important pollinators in many ecosystems ⓘ |
| exhibits |
communal behavior
ⓘ
eusocial behavior ⓘ primitively eusocial behavior ⓘ solitary behavior ⓘ subsocial behavior ⓘ |
| foundIn |
arid regions
ⓘ
temperate regions ⓘ tropical regions ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
arched basal vein in forewing
ⓘ
narrow abdomen ⓘ often metallic coloration ⓘ short tongue compared to long-tongued bees ⓘ |
| hasCommonNameOrigin | attraction to sweat ⓘ |
| hasLarvalDiet | pollen and nectar provisions ⓘ |
| includes |
cavity-nesting species
ⓘ
cleptoparasitic species ⓘ ground-nesting species ⓘ |
| interactsWith | flowering plants ⓘ |
| is | cosmopolitan ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| nestsIn |
hollow stems
ⓘ
rotten wood ⓘ soil ⓘ |
| order | Hymenoptera NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| phylum | Arthropoda ⓘ |
| pollinationRole |
pollinators of crops
ⓘ
pollinators of wild plants ⓘ |
| recognizedBy | entomologists ⓘ |
| reproductiveCastes |
males
ⓘ
queens in eusocial species ⓘ workers in eusocial species ⓘ |
| shows | social polymorphism ⓘ |
| studiedFor | evolution of social behavior in bees ⓘ |
| suborder | Apocrita ⓘ |
| superfamily | Apoidea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| taxonRank | family ⓘ |
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: Halictidae Description of subject: Halictidae is a large and diverse family of bees, commonly known as sweat bees, many of which are attracted to human perspiration and exhibit a wide range of social behaviors.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Halictinae
this entity surface form:
Lasioglossum