Tawilis
E458917
Tawilis is a small freshwater sardine species found only in the Philippines’ Taal Lake and is notable as the world’s only known freshwater sardine.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tawilis canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4636596 — 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: Tawilis Context triple: [Taal Lake, hasEndemicSpecies, Tawilis]
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A.
Kalsa
Kalsa is a historic district of Palermo, Italy, known for its Arab-Norman heritage, medieval streets, and vibrant cultural life.
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B.
Tajewala
Tajewala is a village in the Yamunanagar district of Haryana, India, historically known for the Tajewala Barrage on the Yamuna River, which was later replaced by the nearby Hathni Kund Barrage.
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C.
Sarikoli
Sarikoli is an Eastern Iranian language spoken primarily by the Tajik ethnic community in the Tashkurgan region of Xinjiang, China.
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D.
Wukari
Wukari is a historic town in present-day Taraba State, Nigeria, long associated with the Jukun people and the traditional Wukari Federation.
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E.
Tisiway
Tisiway is an alternative name for the Siwi language spoken by the Siwi (Siwa Oasis) Berber community in Egypt.
- 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: Tawilis Target entity description: Tawilis is a small freshwater sardine species found only in the Philippines’ Taal Lake and is notable as the world’s only known freshwater sardine.
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A.
Kalsa
Kalsa is a historic district of Palermo, Italy, known for its Arab-Norman heritage, medieval streets, and vibrant cultural life.
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B.
Tajewala
Tajewala is a village in the Yamunanagar district of Haryana, India, historically known for the Tajewala Barrage on the Yamuna River, which was later replaced by the nearby Hathni Kund Barrage.
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C.
Sarikoli
Sarikoli is an Eastern Iranian language spoken primarily by the Tajik ethnic community in the Tashkurgan region of Xinjiang, China.
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D.
Wukari
Wukari is a historic town in present-day Taraba State, Nigeria, long associated with the Jukun people and the traditional Wukari Federation.
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E.
Tisiway
Tisiway is an alternative name for the Siwi language spoken by the Siwi (Siwa Oasis) Berber community in Egypt.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fish species
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freshwater fish ⓘ sardine ⓘ |
| bodySize | small ⓘ |
| commonName |
freshwater sardine
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tawilis ⓘ |
| conservationStatus | threatened (local) ⓘ |
| country | Philippines ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance | regional delicacy in Batangas ⓘ |
| distribution |
Taal Lake, Batangas, Philippines
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linked to:
Taal Lake
|
| economicImportance | local fisheries resource ⓘ |
| ecosystemRole | forage fish in Taal Lake food web ⓘ |
| endemicTo | Taal Lake ⓘ |
| environment | freshwater ⓘ |
| fishingMethod | small-scale fisheries ⓘ |
| foundIn |
Batangas
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Luzon ⓘ Philippines ⓘ Taal Lake ⓘ |
| habitat | freshwater lake ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
compressed body shape
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schooling behavior ⓘ silvery body ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the world’s only known freshwater sardine ⓘ |
| relatedTo | sardines ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| threatenedBy |
habitat degradation
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overfishing ⓘ pollution ⓘ |
| usedAs | food fish ⓘ |
| usedIn | Philippine cuisine ⓘ |
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: Tawilis Description of subject: Tawilis is a small freshwater sardine species found only in the Philippines’ Taal Lake and is notable as the world’s only known freshwater sardine.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.