Agamyxis
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Agamyxis is a genus of small, armored freshwater catfish known for their spiny bodies and popularity in the aquarium trade.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Agamyxis canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9541791 — 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: Agamyxis Context triple: [Doradidae, includes, Agamyxis]
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A.
Karytaina
Karytaina is a historic mountain village in the Peloponnese region of Greece, known for its medieval castle and stone bridge over the Alfeios River.
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B.
Neonteichos
Neonteichos was an ancient Greek city in the region of Aeolis on the western coast of Asia Minor.
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C.
Zygomaturus
Zygomaturus is an extinct genus of large, herbivorous Australian marsupials related to wombats and diprotodontids that lived during the Pleistocene.
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D.
Gymnomystax
Gymnomystax is a small genus of New World blackbirds known for its association with marshy and aquatic habitats in South America.
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E.
Aphrodroma
Aphrodroma is a genus of seabirds in the petrel family Procellariidae, comprising small, oceanic birds adapted to life on the open sea.
- 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: Agamyxis Target entity description: Agamyxis is a genus of small, armored freshwater catfish known for their spiny bodies and popularity in the aquarium trade.
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A.
Karytaina
Karytaina is a historic mountain village in the Peloponnese region of Greece, known for its medieval castle and stone bridge over the Alfeios River.
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B.
Neonteichos
Neonteichos was an ancient Greek city in the region of Aeolis on the western coast of Asia Minor.
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C.
Zygomaturus
Zygomaturus is an extinct genus of large, herbivorous Australian marsupials related to wombats and diprotodontids that lived during the Pleistocene.
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D.
Gymnomystax
Gymnomystax is a small genus of New World blackbirds known for its association with marshy and aquatic habitats in South America.
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E.
Aphrodroma
Aphrodroma is a genus of seabirds in the petrel family Procellariidae, comprising small, oceanic birds adapted to life on the open sea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fish species
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genus ⓘ taxon ⓘ thorny catfish ⓘ |
| activityPattern | nocturnal ⓘ |
| aquariumTrade | popular ⓘ |
| behavior |
reclusive
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shy ⓘ |
| bodyArmor |
armored plates
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bony scutes ⓘ |
| bodyFeature |
serrated fin spines
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spiny body ⓘ |
| class | Actinopterygii ⓘ |
| commonName |
spotted talking catfish
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thorny catfishes ⓘ white-spotted doradid ⓘ |
| defensiveAdaptation | locking fin spines ⓘ |
| diet |
detritus
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invertebrates ⓘ omnivorous ⓘ |
| environment | benthic ⓘ |
| family |
Doradidae
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Doradidae ⓘ Doradidae ⓘ |
| genus |
Agamyxis
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Agamyxis ⓘ |
| habitat |
freshwater
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freshwater ⓘ freshwater ⓘ |
| hasSpecies |
Agamyxis albomaculatus
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Agamyxis pectinifrons ⓘ |
| keptAs | aquarium fish ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Amazon Basin
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Amazon Basin ⓘ Orinoco Basin ⓘ South America ⓘ |
| notableUse | ornamental fish trade ⓘ |
| order | Siluriformes ⓘ |
| parentTaxon | Doradidae ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| skeletonType | bony fish ⓘ |
| soundProduction | stridulation ("talking") ⓘ |
| taxonRank |
genus
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species ⓘ species ⓘ |
| waterType | tropical freshwater ⓘ |
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: Agamyxis Description of subject: Agamyxis is a genus of small, armored freshwater catfish known for their spiny bodies and popularity in the aquarium trade.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.