Otophysi
E858414
Otophysi is a large clade of primarily freshwater ray-finned fishes characterized by specialized hearing structures and including groups such as carps, minnows, catfishes, and characins.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Otocephala | 1 |
| Otophysi canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10344193 — 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: Otophysi Context triple: [Ostariophysi, hasSubgroup, Otophysi]
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A.
Rhipidistia
Rhipidistia is a clade of lobe-finned vertebrates that includes lungfish and tetrapods, representing the lineage that gave rise to land-dwelling vertebrates.
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B.
Himantolophidae
Himantolophidae is a family of deep-sea anglerfishes known for their globular bodies, bioluminescent lures, and extreme sexual dimorphism.
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C.
Scepomycter
Scepomycter is a small genus of Old World warblers, insectivorous passerine birds native to parts of Africa and classified within the family Sylviidae.
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D.
Aplodontoidea
Aplodontoidea is a superfamily of rodents that includes the mountain beaver and its extinct relatives, representing one of the most primitive living rodent lineages.
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E.
Pontoporiidae
Pontoporiidae is a family of river dolphins best known for the La Plata dolphin (or franciscana), a small, coastal and estuarine cetacean found in South American waters.
- 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: Otophysi Target entity description: Otophysi is a large clade of primarily freshwater ray-finned fishes characterized by specialized hearing structures and including groups such as carps, minnows, catfishes, and characins.
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A.
Rhipidistia
Rhipidistia is a clade of lobe-finned vertebrates that includes lungfish and tetrapods, representing the lineage that gave rise to land-dwelling vertebrates.
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B.
Himantolophidae
Himantolophidae is a family of deep-sea anglerfishes known for their globular bodies, bioluminescent lures, and extreme sexual dimorphism.
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C.
Scepomycter
Scepomycter is a small genus of Old World warblers, insectivorous passerine birds native to parts of Africa and classified within the family Sylviidae.
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D.
Aplodontoidea
Aplodontoidea is a superfamily of rodents that includes the mountain beaver and its extinct relatives, representing one of the most primitive living rodent lineages.
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E.
Pontoporiidae
Pontoporiidae is a family of river dolphins best known for the La Plata dolphin (or franciscana), a small, coastal and estuarine cetacean found in South American waters.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
clade
ⓘ
group of ray-finned fishes ⓘ taxon ⓘ |
| characterizedBy |
Weberian apparatus
ⓘ
specialized hearing structures ⓘ |
| class | Actinopterygii ⓘ |
| commonName | otophysan fishes ⓘ |
| containsGroup |
Characiformes
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Cypriniformes ⓘ Gymnotiformes ⓘ Siluriformes ⓘ carps ⓘ catfishes ⓘ characins ⓘ minnows ⓘ |
| distribution | worldwide in freshwater ⓘ |
| diversity | species-rich group of teleost fishes ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole | important components of freshwater ecosystems ⓘ |
| evolutionarySignificance | represents a key radiation of freshwater teleosts ⓘ |
| feedingEcology |
includes carnivores
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includes herbivores ⓘ includes omnivores ⓘ |
| habitat |
freshwater wetlands
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lakes ⓘ rivers ⓘ streams ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
enhanced hearing sensitivity
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physostomous swim bladder in many members ⓘ presence of alarm substances (Schreckstoff) in many species ⓘ primarily freshwater habitat ⓘ |
| importance | major component of global inland fisheries ⓘ |
| includes |
many aquarium fishes
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many economically important food fishes ⓘ |
| infraclass | Teleostei ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Ostariophysi ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| notableAnatomicalFeature | series of small bones connecting swim bladder to inner ear ⓘ |
| parentTaxon | Ostariophysi ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproduction | mostly oviparous ⓘ |
| sensoryAdaptation |
enhanced ability to detect low-frequency sounds
ⓘ
improved detection of sound pressure waves ⓘ |
| subclass | Neopterygii ⓘ |
| subphylum | Vertebrata ⓘ |
| systematicsNote | traditionally divided into several orders including Cypriniformes, Characiformes, Siluriformes, Gymnotiformes ⓘ |
| taxonRank | subdivision of Ostariophysi ⓘ |
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: Otophysi Description of subject: Otophysi is a large clade of primarily freshwater ray-finned fishes characterized by specialized hearing structures and including groups such as carps, minnows, catfishes, and characins.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Otophysi