Nephropidae
E521363
Nephropidae is a family of large marine crustaceans commonly known as true lobsters, characterized by their elongated bodies, muscular tails, and prominent claws.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nephropidae canonical | 5 |
| Nephropoidea | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5464116 — 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: Nephropidae Context triple: [American lobster, family, Nephropidae]
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A.
Nemichthyidae
Nemichthyidae is a family of deep-sea eels known as snipe eels, characterized by their extremely elongated jaws and slender bodies.
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B.
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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C.
Siluridae
Siluridae is a family of freshwater catfishes commonly known as sheatfishes, found primarily in Eurasia and characterized by elongated bodies and reduced or absent scales.
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D.
Osmeridae
Osmeridae is a family of small, silvery, cold-water fishes known as smelts, found primarily in marine and freshwater environments of the Northern Hemisphere.
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E.
Rivulidae
Rivulidae is a family of small, often brightly colored killifishes commonly found in freshwater and brackish habitats of the Neotropics.
- 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: Nephropidae Target entity description: Nephropidae is a family of large marine crustaceans commonly known as true lobsters, characterized by their elongated bodies, muscular tails, and prominent claws.
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A.
Nemichthyidae
Nemichthyidae is a family of deep-sea eels known as snipe eels, characterized by their extremely elongated jaws and slender bodies.
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B.
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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C.
Siluridae
Siluridae is a family of freshwater catfishes commonly known as sheatfishes, found primarily in Eurasia and characterized by elongated bodies and reduced or absent scales.
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D.
Osmeridae
Osmeridae is a family of small, silvery, cold-water fishes known as smelts, found primarily in marine and freshwater environments of the Northern Hemisphere.
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E.
Rivulidae
Rivulidae is a family of small, often brightly colored killifishes commonly found in freshwater and brackish habitats of the Neotropics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crustacean family
ⓘ
taxonomic family ⓘ |
| characterizedBy |
elongated bodies
ⓘ
muscular tails ⓘ prominent claws ⓘ |
| class | Malacostraca ⓘ |
| commonName | true lobsters ⓘ |
| describedAs | family of large marine crustaceans ⓘ |
| developmentType | indirect development with larval stages ⓘ |
| distinguishedFrom |
slipper lobsters
ⓘ
spiny lobsters ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole |
benthic predator
ⓘ
benthic scavenger ⓘ |
| economicImportance |
commercially fished
ⓘ
important seafood resource ⓘ |
| feedingType |
omnivorous
ⓘ
predator ⓘ scavenger ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution |
Atlantic Ocean
ⓘ
Indian Ocean ⓘ Mediterranean Sea ⓘ Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| habitat |
benthic zones
ⓘ
continental shelf regions ⓘ marine environments ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
antennae
ⓘ
five pairs of walking legs ⓘ hard exoskeleton ⓘ large chelae on first pair of pereopods ⓘ segmented body ⓘ |
| includesTaxon |
Acanthacaris
ⓘ
Eunephrops ⓘ Homarus ⓘ Metanephrops ⓘ Nephrops ⓘ
linked to:
Nephrops norvegicus
Thymopides ⓘ Thymops ⓘ |
| infraorder | Astacidea ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| lifestyle | mostly nocturnal ⓘ |
| notableSpecies |
Homarus americanus
ⓘ
linked to:
Homarus
Homarus gammarus ⓘ Nephrops norvegicus ⓘ |
| order | Decapoda ⓘ |
| phylum | Arthropoda ⓘ |
| reproduction | sexual reproduction ⓘ |
| suborder | Pleocyemata ⓘ |
| subphylum | Crustacea ⓘ |
| superfamily |
Nephropoidea
ⓘ
linked to:
Nephropidae
|
| 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: Nephropidae Description of subject: Nephropidae is a family of large marine crustaceans commonly known as true lobsters, characterized by their elongated bodies, muscular tails, and prominent claws.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Nephropidae