Anguilla rostrata
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Anguilla rostrata, commonly known as the American eel, is a catadromous fish species native to eastern North America that migrates to the Sargasso Sea to spawn.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Anguilla rostrata canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9572039 — 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: Anguilla rostrata Context triple: [Anguillidae, includesSpecies, Anguilla rostrata]
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A.
Olive Snook
Olive Snook is a quirky, lovelorn waitress and former jockey in the whimsical mystery-comedy TV series "Pushing Daisies."
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B.
Balistoides
Balistoides is a genus of triggerfishes known for their robust, laterally compressed bodies and often striking coloration, found in tropical and subtropical marine waters.
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C.
Bagre marinus
Bagre marinus, commonly known as the gafftopsail catfish, is a marine catfish species found in the western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, recognized for its long, sail-like dorsal fin and venomous spines.
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D.
Scarus
Scarus is a Roman soldier and loyal follower of Mark Antony in William Shakespeare's tragedy "Antony and Cleopatra."
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E.
Tayassu
Tayassu is a genus of New World peccaries, medium-sized pig-like mammals native to Central and South American forests and scrublands.
- 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: Anguilla rostrata Target entity description: Anguilla rostrata, commonly known as the American eel, is a catadromous fish species native to eastern North America that migrates to the Sargasso Sea to spawn.
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A.
Olive Snook
Olive Snook is a quirky, lovelorn waitress and former jockey in the whimsical mystery-comedy TV series "Pushing Daisies."
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B.
Balistoides
Balistoides is a genus of triggerfishes known for their robust, laterally compressed bodies and often striking coloration, found in tropical and subtropical marine waters.
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C.
Bagre marinus
Bagre marinus, commonly known as the gafftopsail catfish, is a marine catfish species found in the western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, recognized for its long, sail-like dorsal fin and venomous spines.
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D.
Scarus
Scarus is a Roman soldier and loyal follower of Mark Antony in William Shakespeare's tragedy "Antony and Cleopatra."
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E.
Tayassu
Tayassu is a genus of New World peccaries, medium-sized pig-like mammals native to Central and South American forests and scrublands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
catadromous fish
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species of ray-finned fish ⓘ |
| bodyShape |
eel-like
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elongated ⓘ |
| class | Actinopterygii ⓘ |
| commonName | American eel ⓘ |
| describedBy | Lesueur ⓘ |
| diet |
invertebrates
ⓘ
small fishes ⓘ |
| distributionLimitNorth | Greenland ⓘ |
| distributionLimitSouth | northern South America ⓘ |
| family | Anguillidae ⓘ |
| finCharacteristic | continuous dorsal, caudal, and anal fins ⓘ |
| habitat |
coastal marine waters
ⓘ
estuaries ⓘ freshwater rivers ⓘ lakes ⓘ |
| hasColor |
lighter ventral surface
ⓘ
olive-brown to dark brown dorsally ⓘ |
| hasGillOpening | small gill openings ⓘ |
| IUCNStatus | Endangered ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| lifeStage |
elver
ⓘ
glass eel ⓘ leptocephalus larva ⓘ silver eel ⓘ yellow eel ⓘ |
| maximumTotalLength | approximately 1 meter ⓘ |
| migrationType | catadromous ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Atlantic coast of North America
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Caribbean Sea drainage ⓘ Gulf of Mexico drainage ⓘ
linked to:
Gulf of Mexico watershed
eastern North America ⓘ |
| order | Anguilliformes ⓘ |
| parentTaxon | Anguilla ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Anguilla anguilla ⓘ |
| reproductiveStrategy | semelparous ⓘ |
| spawnsIn | Sargasso Sea ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| threat |
climate change
ⓘ
dams and migration barriers ⓘ habitat loss ⓘ overfishing ⓘ pollution ⓘ |
| usedFor |
aquaculture
ⓘ
commercial fisheries ⓘ recreational fishing ⓘ |
| yearDescribed | 1817 ⓘ |
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: Anguilla rostrata Description of subject: Anguilla rostrata, commonly known as the American eel, is a catadromous fish species native to eastern North America that migrates to the Sargasso Sea to spawn.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.