Cancridae
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Cancridae is a family of marine crabs that includes several commercially important species such as the Dungeness crab, found primarily in temperate coastal waters.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cancridae canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10104451 — 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: Cancridae Context triple: [Dungeness crab, family, Cancridae]
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A.
Sebastidae
Sebastidae is a family of marine ray-finned fishes commonly known as rockfishes, many of which are long-lived, bottom-dwelling species important in commercial and recreational fisheries.
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B.
Menuridae
Menuridae is a family of Australian birds known as lyrebirds, famed for their elaborate tail plumes and remarkable ability to mimic natural and artificial sounds.
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C.
Fundulidae
Fundulidae is a family of small ray-finned fishes commonly known as topminnows and killifishes, found primarily in freshwater and coastal habitats of North and Central America.
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D.
Moronidae
Moronidae is a family of temperate bass fishes that includes several popular game and food species found in freshwater and coastal marine environments.
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E.
Balitoridae
Balitoridae is a family of small, bottom-dwelling freshwater loaches commonly found in fast-flowing streams of Asia and adapted to cling to rocks in strong currents.
- 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: Cancridae Target entity description: Cancridae is a family of marine crabs that includes several commercially important species such as the Dungeness crab, found primarily in temperate coastal waters.
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A.
Sebastidae
Sebastidae is a family of marine ray-finned fishes commonly known as rockfishes, many of which are long-lived, bottom-dwelling species important in commercial and recreational fisheries.
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B.
Menuridae
Menuridae is a family of Australian birds known as lyrebirds, famed for their elaborate tail plumes and remarkable ability to mimic natural and artificial sounds.
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C.
Fundulidae
Fundulidae is a family of small ray-finned fishes commonly known as topminnows and killifishes, found primarily in freshwater and coastal habitats of North and Central America.
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D.
Moronidae
Moronidae is a family of temperate bass fishes that includes several popular game and food species found in freshwater and coastal marine environments.
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E.
Balitoridae
Balitoridae is a family of small, bottom-dwelling freshwater loaches commonly found in fast-flowing streams of Asia and adapted to cling to rocks in strong currents.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crab family
ⓘ
taxonomic family ⓘ |
| appendages | five pairs of walking legs ⓘ |
| bodyPlan | broad oval carapace ⓘ |
| class | Malacostraca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commonName |
Dungeness crab
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
cancer crabs ⓘ |
| containsTaxon |
Atelecyclus rotundatus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
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| describedAs | family of marine crabs ⓘ |
| distribution |
Atlantic Ocean
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
North American Pacific coast NERFINISHED ⓘ Pacific Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole |
benthic predator
ⓘ
scavenger ⓘ |
| economicImportance | includes commercially important crab species ⓘ |
| feedingType | omnivorous scavenger ⓘ |
| habitat |
marine environment
ⓘ
temperate coastal waters ⓘ |
| infraorder | Brachyura NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| larvalStage |
megalopa
ⓘ
zoea ⓘ |
| notableSpecies | Dungeness crab NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| order | Decapoda ⓘ |
| phylum | Arthropoda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reproduction | sexual reproduction ⓘ |
| subphylum | Crustacea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| superfamily | Cancroidea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| taxonRank | family ⓘ |
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: Cancridae Description of subject: Cancridae is a family of marine crabs that includes several commercially important species such as the Dungeness crab, found primarily in temperate coastal waters.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.