Catalog of Fishes
E805766
Catalog of Fishes is an authoritative online taxonomic database that provides comprehensive, up-to-date information on the scientific classification and nomenclature of fish species worldwide.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Catalog of Fishes canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9542165 — 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: Catalog of Fishes Context triple: [Akysidae, recognizedBy, Catalog of Fishes]
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A.
Plentimaw Fishes
Plentimaw Fishes are fantastical, many-mouthed, story-eating and story-carrying fish creatures from Salman Rushdie’s novel "Haroun and the Sea of Stories."
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B.
Recherches sur les poissons fossiles
Recherches sur les poissons fossiles is a foundational 19th-century multi-volume work on fossil fishes that helped establish modern paleontology and comparative ichthyology.
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C.
Lophiiformes
Lophiiformes is an order of ray-finned fishes best known for the anglerfishes, which use a bioluminescent lure to attract prey in deep-sea environments.
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D.
Pseudobalistes
Pseudobalistes is a genus of large, robust triggerfishes found in tropical and subtropical marine waters, known for their strong jaws and often striking coloration.
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E.
Labroidei
Labroidei is a suborder of mostly marine perciform fishes that includes wrasses, parrotfishes, and cichlids, known for their diverse morphologies and complex behaviors.
- 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: Catalog of Fishes Target entity description: Catalog of Fishes is an authoritative online taxonomic database that provides comprehensive, up-to-date information on the scientific classification and nomenclature of fish species worldwide.
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A.
Plentimaw Fishes
Plentimaw Fishes are fantastical, many-mouthed, story-eating and story-carrying fish creatures from Salman Rushdie’s novel "Haroun and the Sea of Stories."
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B.
Recherches sur les poissons fossiles
Recherches sur les poissons fossiles is a foundational 19th-century multi-volume work on fossil fishes that helped establish modern paleontology and comparative ichthyology.
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C.
Lophiiformes
Lophiiformes is an order of ray-finned fishes best known for the anglerfishes, which use a bioluminescent lure to attract prey in deep-sea environments.
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D.
Pseudobalistes
Pseudobalistes is a genus of large, robust triggerfishes found in tropical and subtropical marine waters, known for their strong jaws and often striking coloration.
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E.
Labroidei
Labroidei is a suborder of mostly marine perciform fishes that includes wrasses, parrotfishes, and cichlids, known for their diverse morphologies and complex behaviors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biodiversity database
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ichthyological database ⓘ online taxonomic database ⓘ scientific reference work ⓘ |
| access | open access ⓘ |
| accessMode |
online
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web interface ⓘ |
| audience |
biodiversity researchers
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conservation biologists ⓘ fisheries scientists ⓘ ichthyologists ⓘ taxonomists ⓘ |
| content |
bibliographic references
ⓘ
family-level classification of fishes ⓘ genus-level classification of fishes ⓘ original descriptions of fish taxa ⓘ species-level classification of fishes ⓘ synonyms of fish species ⓘ taxonomic status of names ⓘ type locality information ⓘ type species information ⓘ valid fish species names ⓘ |
| coverage |
brackish water fishes
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freshwater fishes ⓘ marine fishes ⓘ |
| dataType |
bibliographic data
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nomenclatural data ⓘ taxonomic data ⓘ |
| field |
ichthyology
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systematics ⓘ taxonomy ⓘ zoological nomenclature ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| purpose |
provide authoritative fish nomenclature
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serve as a reference for fish names ⓘ standardize fish taxonomy ⓘ support biodiversity research ⓘ support conservation assessments ⓘ |
| reliability | authoritative ⓘ |
| scope | global ⓘ |
| subject |
fish nomenclature
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fish species ⓘ fish taxonomy ⓘ fishes ⓘ |
| temporalCoverage |
extant fish taxa
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fossil fish taxa ⓘ |
| updateFrequency | regularly updated ⓘ |
| usedFor |
biodiversity databases integration
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nomenclatural validation of fish names ⓘ species checklists ⓘ taxonomic revisions ⓘ |
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: Catalog of Fishes Description of subject: Catalog of Fishes is an authoritative online taxonomic database that provides comprehensive, up-to-date information on the scientific classification and nomenclature of fish species worldwide.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.