Coregonus
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Coregonus is a genus of freshwater whitefish in the salmon family, including species such as ciscoes and lake whitefish that inhabit cold lakes and rivers of the Northern Hemisphere.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Coregonus canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9498986 — 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: Coregonus Context triple: [Salmonidae, notableGenus, Coregonus]
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A.
Salmo
Salmo is a genus of salmonid fish that includes species such as the Atlantic salmon and various trout native mainly to the North Atlantic and its tributaries.
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B.
Oncorhynchus
Oncorhynchus is a genus of Pacific salmon and trout that includes several commercially and ecologically important fish species.
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C.
Esomus
Esomus is a genus of small Asian freshwater cyprinid fishes commonly known as flying barbs, noted for their elongated bodies and barbels.
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D.
Entosphenus
Entosphenus is a genus of jawless, eel-like lampreys that includes several parasitic and anadromous species found primarily in North American freshwater and coastal marine environments.
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E.
Gadus
Gadus is a genus of marine fish that includes the economically important true cods found in cold and temperate waters of the Northern Hemisphere.
- 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: Coregonus Target entity description: Coregonus is a genus of freshwater whitefish in the salmon family, including species such as ciscoes and lake whitefish that inhabit cold lakes and rivers of the Northern Hemisphere.
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A.
Salmo
Salmo is a genus of salmonid fish that includes species such as the Atlantic salmon and various trout native mainly to the North Atlantic and its tributaries.
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B.
Oncorhynchus
Oncorhynchus is a genus of Pacific salmon and trout that includes several commercially and ecologically important fish species.
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C.
Esomus
Esomus is a genus of small Asian freshwater cyprinid fishes commonly known as flying barbs, noted for their elongated bodies and barbels.
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D.
Entosphenus
Entosphenus is a genus of jawless, eel-like lampreys that includes several parasitic and anadromous species found primarily in North American freshwater and coastal marine environments.
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E.
Gadus
Gadus is a genus of marine fish that includes the economically important true cods found in cold and temperate waters of the Northern Hemisphere.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
genus
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| bodyShape | fusiform ⓘ |
| class | Actinopterygii ⓘ |
| commonName |
freshwater whitefish
ⓘ
whitefishes ⓘ |
| containsTaxon |
Coregonus albula
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Coregonus alpinus NERFINISHED ⓘ Coregonus artedi NERFINISHED ⓘ Coregonus autumnalis NERFINISHED ⓘ Coregonus baicalensis NERFINISHED ⓘ Coregonus clupeaformis NERFINISHED ⓘ Coregonus confusus NERFINISHED ⓘ Coregonus fatioi NERFINISHED ⓘ Coregonus gutturosus NERFINISHED ⓘ Coregonus hiemalis NERFINISHED ⓘ Coregonus holsatus NERFINISHED ⓘ Coregonus hoyi NERFINISHED ⓘ Coregonus huntsmani NERFINISHED ⓘ Coregonus johannae NERFINISHED ⓘ Coregonus laurettae NERFINISHED ⓘ Coregonus lavaretus NERFINISHED ⓘ Coregonus macrophthalmus NERFINISHED ⓘ Coregonus muksun NERFINISHED ⓘ Coregonus nilssoni NERFINISHED ⓘ Coregonus oxyrinchus NERFINISHED ⓘ Coregonus peled NERFINISHED ⓘ Coregonus pidschian NERFINISHED ⓘ Coregonus restrictus NERFINISHED ⓘ Coregonus sardinella NERFINISHED ⓘ Coregonus stigmaticus NERFINISHED ⓘ Coregonus suidteri NERFINISHED ⓘ Coregonus trybomi NERFINISHED ⓘ Coregonus tugun NERFINISHED ⓘ Coregonus ussuriensis NERFINISHED ⓘ Coregonus vandesius NERFINISHED ⓘ Coregonus widegreni NERFINISHED ⓘ Coregonus zenithicus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| diet |
benthic invertebrates
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zooplankton ⓘ |
| distribution | Northern Hemisphere NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole |
benthivorous fish
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planktivorous fish ⓘ |
| family | Salmonidae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genusOf |
ciscoes
ⓘ
lake whitefish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| habitat |
cold lakes
ⓘ
cold rivers ⓘ freshwater ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Asia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ North America ⓘ |
| order | Salmoniformes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parentTaxon | Salmonidae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproduction | spawning in cold water ⓘ |
| subfamily | Coregoninae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commercial fisheries
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recreational fishing ⓘ |
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: Coregonus Description of subject: Coregonus is a genus of freshwater whitefish in the salmon family, including species such as ciscoes and lake whitefish that inhabit cold lakes and rivers of the Northern Hemisphere.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.