Cancer magister
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Cancer magister is the scientific name for the Dungeness crab, a commercially important edible crab species found along the Pacific coast of North America.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cancer magister canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10104450 — 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: Cancer magister Context triple: [Dungeness crab, taxonName, Cancer magister]
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A.
Im Krebsgang
Im Krebsgang is a novella by German author Günter Grass that explores the lingering impact of World War II and the sinking of the refugee ship Wilhelm Gustloff through a multigenerational family narrative.
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B.
Cancer Ward
Cancer Ward is a semi-autobiographical novel by Alexander Solzhenitsyn that portrays life in a Soviet cancer hospital as an allegory for the moral and political sickness of Stalinist society.
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C.
Karkinos
Karkinos is the giant crab from Greek mythology that aided the Hydra against Heracles and was placed among the stars as the constellation Cancer.
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D.
Legum Magister
Legum Magister is a postgraduate academic degree in law, commonly known in English as the Master of Laws (LL.M.).
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E.
Magistralny
Magistralny is a small Russian settlement located along the Kirenga River in Siberia.
- 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: Cancer magister Target entity description: Cancer magister is the scientific name for the Dungeness crab, a commercially important edible crab species found along the Pacific coast of North America.
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A.
Im Krebsgang
Im Krebsgang is a novella by German author Günter Grass that explores the lingering impact of World War II and the sinking of the refugee ship Wilhelm Gustloff through a multigenerational family narrative.
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B.
Cancer Ward
Cancer Ward is a semi-autobiographical novel by Alexander Solzhenitsyn that portrays life in a Soviet cancer hospital as an allegory for the moral and political sickness of Stalinist society.
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C.
Karkinos
Karkinos is the giant crab from Greek mythology that aided the Hydra against Heracles and was placed among the stars as the constellation Cancer.
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D.
Legum Magister
Legum Magister is a postgraduate academic degree in law, commonly known in English as the Master of Laws (LL.M.).
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E.
Magistralny
Magistralny is a small Russian settlement located along the Kirenga River in Siberia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crab
ⓘ
species ⓘ |
| class | Malacostraca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commonName | Dungeness crab NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedAs | commercially important edible crab ⓘ |
| development | larval stages in plankton ⓘ |
| distribution |
eastern North Pacific
ⓘ
from Alaska to California ⓘ |
| economicUse |
commercial fishery species
ⓘ
seafood ⓘ |
| family | Cancridae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fisheryType |
pot fishery
ⓘ
trap fishery ⓘ |
| foundAlong | Pacific coast of North America ⓘ |
| foundIn | Pacific Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundInCountry |
Canada
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| habitat |
marine coastal waters
ⓘ
muddy bottoms ⓘ sandy bottoms ⓘ |
| hasBodyShape | broad oval carapace ⓘ |
| hasExoskeleton | chitin ⓘ |
| hasLimbs |
five pairs of legs
ⓘ
one pair of claws ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| molting | periodic shedding of exoskeleton ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Dungeness, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| order | Decapoda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parentTaxon | Cancer ⓘ |
| phylum | Arthropoda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| preysOn |
bivalves
ⓘ
detritus ⓘ small crustaceans ⓘ worms ⓘ |
| regulation |
seasonal closures in many jurisdictions
ⓘ
size limits in many jurisdictions ⓘ |
| reproduction | sexual reproduction ⓘ |
| sexualDimorphism | males larger than females ⓘ |
| subphylum | Crustacea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| superfamily | Cancroidea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| trophicLevel | omnivore ⓘ |
| usedAs | human food ⓘ |
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: Cancer magister Description of subject: Cancer magister is the scientific name for the Dungeness crab, a commercially important edible crab species found along the Pacific coast of North America.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.