Melanatherina
E864000
Melanatherina is a genus of small ray-finned fishes within the silverside family, known from freshwater habitats in the Australasian region.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Melanatherina canonical | 2 |
| Melanatherina exquisita | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10435674 — 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: Melanatherina Context triple: [Atherinidae, hasMember, Melanatherina]
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A.
Eopsaltria
Eopsaltria is a genus of Australasian robins, small insectivorous passerine birds native to Australia and nearby regions.
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B.
Anthochaera
Anthochaera is a genus of Australian honeyeaters known for their brush-tipped tongues and nectar-feeding habits.
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C.
Stachyris
Stachyris is a genus of small insectivorous passerine birds commonly known as babblers, found primarily in the forests of South and Southeast Asia.
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D.
Abroscopus
Abroscopus is a small genus of Old World warblers, comprising tiny insectivorous songbirds found mainly in forested regions of Asia.
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E.
Pityocamptes
Pityocamptes is the epithet of the mythological bandit Sinis, notorious in Greek legend for killing travelers by violently bending and releasing pine trees to tear them apart.
- 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: Melanatherina Target entity description: Melanatherina is a genus of small ray-finned fishes within the silverside family, known from freshwater habitats in the Australasian region.
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A.
Eopsaltria
Eopsaltria is a genus of Australasian robins, small insectivorous passerine birds native to Australia and nearby regions.
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B.
Anthochaera
Anthochaera is a genus of Australian honeyeaters known for their brush-tipped tongues and nectar-feeding habits.
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C.
Stachyris
Stachyris is a genus of small insectivorous passerine birds commonly known as babblers, found primarily in the forests of South and Southeast Asia.
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D.
Abroscopus
Abroscopus is a small genus of Old World warblers, comprising tiny insectivorous songbirds found mainly in forested regions of Asia.
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E.
Pityocamptes
Pityocamptes is the epithet of the mythological bandit Sinis, notorious in Greek legend for killing travelers by violently bending and releasing pine trees to tear them apart.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fish genus
ⓘ
fish species ⓘ taxon ⓘ |
| bodyForm | small ray-finned fishes ⓘ |
| class | Actinopterygii ⓘ |
| distribution |
Australasian region
ⓘ
linked to:
Australasian realm
|
| ectothermy | ectothermic ⓘ |
| eggType | pelagic eggs ⓘ |
| environment | tropical freshwater ⓘ |
| family |
Melanotaeniidae
ⓘ
silverside family ⓘ |
| feedingType | omnivorous ⓘ |
| finType | ray-finned ⓘ |
| genus | Melanatherina ⓘ |
| gillType | bony fish gills ⓘ |
| habitat | freshwater ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Melanatherina exquisita
ⓘ
linked to:
Melanatherina
|
| importance | local ornamental fish trade ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| lifestyle | diurnal ⓘ |
| locomotion | swimming ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Australasia
ⓘ
linked to:
Oceania
New Guinea region ⓘ
linked to:
New Guinea
|
| order | Atheriniformes ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproduction | egg-laying ⓘ |
| respiration | aquatic respiration ⓘ |
| skeletonType | bony ⓘ |
| symmetry | bilateral symmetry ⓘ |
| uses | aquarium fish ⓘ |
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: Melanatherina Description of subject: Melanatherina is a genus of small ray-finned fishes within the silverside family, known from freshwater habitats in the Australasian region.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.