Planorbidae
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Planorbidae is a family of air-breathing freshwater snails, commonly known as ramshorn snails, characterized by their coiled, planispiral shells and widespread occurrence in aquatic habitats.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Planorbidae canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5597530 — 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: Planorbidae Context triple: [Ancylus fluviatilis, family, Planorbidae]
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A.
Goodeidae
Goodeidae is a family of freshwater fishes, commonly known as goodeids, native primarily to Mexico and known for their distinctive live-bearing reproductive strategy.
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B.
Neritimorpha
Neritimorpha is a major clade of gastropod mollusks that includes nerites and their relatives, characterized by typically small, often globular shells and a long fossil record extending back to the Paleozoic.
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C.
Ostraciidae
Ostraciidae is a family of boxfishes known for their rigid, box-like bony carapace and often bright, patterned coloration in tropical and subtropical marine waters.
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D.
Heteropneustidae
Heteropneustidae is a family of air-breathing catfishes known for their elongated bodies and ability to survive in low-oxygen freshwater habitats.
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E.
Hexagrammidae
Hexagrammidae is a family of marine ray-finned fishes commonly known as greenlings, found primarily in the North Pacific Ocean.
- 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: Planorbidae Target entity description: Planorbidae is a family of air-breathing freshwater snails, commonly known as ramshorn snails, characterized by their coiled, planispiral shells and widespread occurrence in aquatic habitats.
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A.
Goodeidae
Goodeidae is a family of freshwater fishes, commonly known as goodeids, native primarily to Mexico and known for their distinctive live-bearing reproductive strategy.
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B.
Neritimorpha
Neritimorpha is a major clade of gastropod mollusks that includes nerites and their relatives, characterized by typically small, often globular shells and a long fossil record extending back to the Paleozoic.
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C.
Ostraciidae
Ostraciidae is a family of boxfishes known for their rigid, box-like bony carapace and often bright, patterned coloration in tropical and subtropical marine waters.
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D.
Heteropneustidae
Heteropneustidae is a family of air-breathing catfishes known for their elongated bodies and ability to survive in low-oxygen freshwater habitats.
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E.
Hexagrammidae
Hexagrammidae is a family of marine ray-finned fishes commonly known as greenlings, found primarily in the North Pacific Ocean.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
gastropod family
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taxon ⓘ |
| bodySymmetry | bilateral symmetry ⓘ |
| clade | Panpulmonata ⓘ |
| class | Gastropoda ⓘ |
| commonName |
ramshorn snails
ⓘ
ram’s horn snails ⓘ |
| diet |
algae
ⓘ
biofilm ⓘ decaying plant material ⓘ |
| distribution | cosmopolitan ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole |
detritus recycler
ⓘ
periphyton grazer ⓘ prey for aquatic insects ⓘ prey for fish ⓘ |
| eggLaying | gelatinous egg masses ⓘ |
| feedingType |
detritivorous
ⓘ
herbivorous ⓘ |
| fertilization | internal fertilization ⓘ |
| firstDescriptionBy |
Rafinesque
ⓘ
linked to:
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
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| firstDescriptionYear | 1815 ⓘ |
| foundInContinent |
Africa
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Asia ⓘ Australia ⓘ Europe ⓘ North America ⓘ South America ⓘ |
| habitat |
freshwater
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lakes ⓘ marshes ⓘ ponds ⓘ slow-moving rivers ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| locomotion | muscular foot crawling ⓘ |
| medicalSignificance |
intermediate hosts of parasitic trematodes
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some species transmit schistosomiasis ⓘ |
| notableGenus |
Biomphalaria
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Gyraulus ⓘ Helisoma ⓘ Planorbella ⓘ Planorbis ⓘ |
| phylum | Mollusca ⓘ |
| reproductionType | hermaphroditic ⓘ |
| respirationType | air-breathing ⓘ |
| respiratoryOrgan | pulmonate lung ⓘ |
| shellCoiling |
coiled
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sinistral ⓘ |
| shellShape | discoidal ⓘ |
| shellType | planispiral ⓘ |
| subclass | Heterobranchia ⓘ |
| superfamily | Planorboidea ⓘ |
| 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: Planorbidae Description of subject: Planorbidae is a family of air-breathing freshwater snails, commonly known as ramshorn snails, characterized by their coiled, planispiral shells and widespread occurrence in aquatic habitats.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.