Teleostei
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Teleostei is a vast and diverse infraclass of bony fishes that includes the great majority of modern fish species found in marine and freshwater environments worldwide.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Teleostei canonical | 72 |
| Crown Teleostei | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10315685 — 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: Teleostei Context triple: [Congiopodidae, infraclass, Teleostei]
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A.
Euteleostei
Euteleostei is a major clade of bony fishes that includes the vast majority of modern teleost diversity, encompassing many familiar marine and freshwater species.
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B.
Osteichthyes
Osteichthyes is a vast taxonomic group of bony fishes characterized by skeletons primarily composed of bone rather than cartilage, encompassing both ray-finned and lobe-finned fishes.
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C.
Actinopterygii
Actinopterygii is the diverse class of ray-finned fishes that comprises the vast majority of modern fish species found in marine and freshwater environments.
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D.
Ostariophysi
Ostariophysi is a large superorder of primarily freshwater bony fishes that includes carps, minnows, catfishes, and related groups characterized by the Weberian apparatus linking the swim bladder to the inner ear.
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E.
Neopterygii
Neopterygii is a major clade of ray-finned fishes that includes most modern fish species, characterized by more advanced jaw mechanics and fin structures compared to more primitive actinopterygians.
- 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: Teleostei Target entity description: Teleostei is a vast and diverse infraclass of bony fishes that includes the great majority of modern fish species found in marine and freshwater environments worldwide.
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A.
Euteleostei
Euteleostei is a major clade of bony fishes that includes the vast majority of modern teleost diversity, encompassing many familiar marine and freshwater species.
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B.
Osteichthyes
Osteichthyes is a vast taxonomic group of bony fishes characterized by skeletons primarily composed of bone rather than cartilage, encompassing both ray-finned and lobe-finned fishes.
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C.
Actinopterygii
Actinopterygii is the diverse class of ray-finned fishes that comprises the vast majority of modern fish species found in marine and freshwater environments.
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D.
Ostariophysi
Ostariophysi is a large superorder of primarily freshwater bony fishes that includes carps, minnows, catfishes, and related groups characterized by the Weberian apparatus linking the swim bladder to the inner ear.
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E.
Neopterygii
Neopterygii is a major clade of ray-finned fishes that includes most modern fish species, characterized by more advanced jaw mechanics and fin structures compared to more primitive actinopterygians.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
clade
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infraclass ⓘ |
| characteristic |
cycloid or ctenoid scales in many species
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homocercal tail in most species ⓘ mobile premaxilla ⓘ skeleton primarily composed of bone ⓘ swim bladder usually present ⓘ |
| class | Actinopterygii ⓘ |
| commonName | teleosts ⓘ |
| comprises | majority of living fish species ⓘ |
| distribution | worldwide ⓘ |
| diversification |
Jurassic period
ⓘ
linked to:
Jurassic Period
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| ecologicalRole |
primary consumers in aquatic food webs
ⓘ
top predators in many aquatic ecosystems ⓘ |
| economicImportance |
important in aquaculture
ⓘ
important in aquarium trade ⓘ important in commercial fisheries ⓘ major source of human food ⓘ |
| evolutionaryOrigin |
Mesozoic era
ⓘ
linked to:
Mesozoic Era
|
| exampleSpecies |
Danio rerio
ⓘ
Gadus morhua ⓘ Oreochromis niloticus ⓘ
linked to:
Nile tilapia
Salmo salar ⓘ
linked to:
Atlantic salmon
|
| firstAppearance | Late Triassic ⓘ |
| habitat |
freshwater environments
ⓘ
marine environments ⓘ |
| includes |
Acanthomorpha
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Atheriniformes ⓘ Beloniformes ⓘ Characiformes ⓘ Cichliformes ⓘ Clupeomorpha ⓘ Cypriniformes ⓘ Elopomorpha ⓘ Gadiformes ⓘ Gobiiformes ⓘ
linked to:
Gobioidei
Ostariophysi ⓘ Perciformes ⓘ Pleuronectiformes ⓘ Salmoniformes ⓘ Siluriformes ⓘ Tetraodontiformes ⓘ |
| isA |
bony fish
ⓘ
ray-finned fish ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| researchUse | model organisms in biology ⓘ |
| speciesCount | over 26000 described species ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf | Actinopterygii ⓘ |
| subphylum | Vertebrata ⓘ |
| superclass | Osteichthyes ⓘ |
| taxonRank | infraclass ⓘ |
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: Teleostei Description of subject: Teleostei is a vast and diverse infraclass of bony fishes that includes the great majority of modern fish species found in marine and freshwater environments worldwide.
Referenced by (73)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.