Platanista
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Platanista is a genus of freshwater river dolphins native to South Asia, including the endangered Ganges river dolphin.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Platanista canonical | 4 |
| Platanista minor | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6333546 — 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: Platanista Context triple: [Ganges river dolphin, genus, Platanista]
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A.
Palmi
Palmi is a coastal town in the Calabria region of southern Italy, known for its scenic Tyrrhenian shoreline and cultural traditions.
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B.
Pothia
Pothia is the main town and administrative center of the Greek island of Kalymnos, known for its colorful hillside houses and harbor.
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C.
Plante
Plante is a French-origin surname commonly found in Canada and other Francophone regions, associated with several notable figures in sports, politics, and the arts.
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D.
Scidrus
Scidrus was an ancient Greek colonial settlement in southern Italy associated with the wealthy city of Sybaris.
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E.
Sarraméa
Sarraméa is a small inland commune in New Caledonia known for its lush mountainous landscapes and eco-tourism activities.
- 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: Platanista Target entity description: Platanista is a genus of freshwater river dolphins native to South Asia, including the endangered Ganges river dolphin.
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A.
Palmi
Palmi is a coastal town in the Calabria region of southern Italy, known for its scenic Tyrrhenian shoreline and cultural traditions.
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B.
Pothia
Pothia is the main town and administrative center of the Greek island of Kalymnos, known for its colorful hillside houses and harbor.
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C.
Plante
Plante is a French-origin surname commonly found in Canada and other Francophone regions, associated with several notable figures in sports, politics, and the arts.
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D.
Scidrus
Scidrus was an ancient Greek colonial settlement in southern Italy associated with the wealthy city of Sybaris.
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E.
Sarraméa
Sarraméa is a small inland commune in New Caledonia known for its lush mountainous landscapes and eco-tourism activities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
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: Platanista Description of subject: Platanista is a genus of freshwater river dolphins native to South Asia, including the endangered Ganges river dolphin.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Ganges river dolphin (Platanista gangetica)
linked to: Platanista
linked to: Platanista