Lampetra
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Lampetra is a genus of jawless, eel-like lampreys found in freshwater and coastal marine environments of the Northern Hemisphere.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lampetra canonical | 4 |
| Lampetra ayresii | 1 |
| Lampetra lanceolata | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7971390 — 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: Lampetra Context triple: [Petromyzontidae, containsGenus, Lampetra]
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Lampetra fluviatilis
Lampetra fluviatilis, commonly known as the European river lamprey, is a jawless, eel-like parasitic fish native to European rivers and coastal waters.
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B.
Lampetra planeri
Lampetra planeri, commonly known as the European brook lamprey, is a small, jawless freshwater fish native to European streams and rivers, notable for its non-parasitic lifestyle and primitive eel-like appearance.
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C.
Ichthyomyzon unicuspis
Ichthyomyzon unicuspis is a species of lamprey, a jawless, eel-like parasitic fish native to freshwater systems in North America.
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D.
Alewife
Alewife is a major subway station and transit hub in North Cambridge, Massachusetts, serving as the northern endpoint of Boston’s MBTA Red Line and a large park-and-ride facility.
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E.
Petromyzon
Petromyzon is a genus of jawless, eel-like lampreys known for their parasitic, blood-feeding lifestyle in marine and freshwater environments.
- 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: Lampetra Target entity description: Lampetra is a genus of jawless, eel-like lampreys found in freshwater and coastal marine environments of the Northern Hemisphere.
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A.
Lampetra fluviatilis
Lampetra fluviatilis, commonly known as the European river lamprey, is a jawless, eel-like parasitic fish native to European rivers and coastal waters.
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B.
Lampetra planeri
Lampetra planeri, commonly known as the European brook lamprey, is a small, jawless freshwater fish native to European streams and rivers, notable for its non-parasitic lifestyle and primitive eel-like appearance.
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C.
Ichthyomyzon unicuspis
Ichthyomyzon unicuspis is a species of lamprey, a jawless, eel-like parasitic fish native to freshwater systems in North America.
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D.
Alewife
Alewife is a major subway station and transit hub in North Cambridge, Massachusetts, serving as the northern endpoint of Boston’s MBTA Red Line and a large park-and-ride facility.
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E.
Petromyzon
Petromyzon is a genus of jawless, eel-like lampreys known for their parasitic, blood-feeding lifestyle in marine and freshwater environments.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Lampetra Description of subject: Lampetra is a genus of jawless, eel-like lampreys found in freshwater and coastal marine environments of the Northern Hemisphere.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Lampetra
linked to: Lampetra