Arapaima mapae
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Arapaima mapae is a large, air-breathing freshwater fish species in the arapaima family, native to South American river systems.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Arapaima | 2 |
| Arapaima mapae canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10640022 — 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: Arapaima mapae Context triple: [Arapaimidae, includesTaxon, Arapaima mapae]
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A.
Arapaima gigas
Arapaima gigas is one of the world’s largest freshwater fish, a South American river giant known for its bony tongue, air-breathing ability, and importance in Amazonian ecosystems and fisheries.
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B.
Bois Caïman
Bois Caïman is a historic site in northern Haiti renowned as the location of the 1791 Vodou ceremony that helped spark the Haitian Revolution.
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C.
Orinoco crocodile
The Orinoco crocodile is a critically endangered, large freshwater crocodilian native to the Orinoco River system of Colombia and Venezuela, known for its long, narrow snout and historically extensive range.
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D.
Osteoglossum bicirrhosum
Osteoglossum bicirrhosum, commonly known as the silver arowana, is a large South American freshwater fish prized in aquariums for its metallic sheen, elongated body, and surface-feeding, jumping behavior.
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E.
Arapaimidae
Arapaimidae is a family of large, air-breathing freshwater fishes from South America, best known for the arapaima, one of the world’s largest river fish.
- 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: Arapaima mapae Target entity description: Arapaima mapae is a large, air-breathing freshwater fish species in the arapaima family, native to South American river systems.
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A.
Arapaima gigas
Arapaima gigas is one of the world’s largest freshwater fish, a South American river giant known for its bony tongue, air-breathing ability, and importance in Amazonian ecosystems and fisheries.
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B.
Bois Caïman
Bois Caïman is a historic site in northern Haiti renowned as the location of the 1791 Vodou ceremony that helped spark the Haitian Revolution.
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C.
Orinoco crocodile
The Orinoco crocodile is a critically endangered, large freshwater crocodilian native to the Orinoco River system of Colombia and Venezuela, known for its long, narrow snout and historically extensive range.
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D.
Osteoglossum bicirrhosum
Osteoglossum bicirrhosum, commonly known as the silver arowana, is a large South American freshwater fish prized in aquariums for its metallic sheen, elongated body, and surface-feeding, jumping behavior.
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E.
Arapaimidae
Arapaimidae is a family of large, air-breathing freshwater fishes from South America, best known for the arapaima, one of the world’s largest river fish.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
air-breathing fish
ⓘ
fish species ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Arapaimidae ⓘ |
| bloodTemperature | ectothermic ⓘ |
| bodyCovering | scales ⓘ |
| class | Actinopterygii ⓘ |
| distribution | South American river systems ⓘ |
| environment | freshwater ecosystems ⓘ |
| family | Arapaimidae ⓘ |
| genus |
Arapaima
ⓘ
linked to:
Arapaima mapae
|
| habitat |
freshwater
ⓘ
rivers ⓘ |
| hasBackbone | true ⓘ |
| higherClassification |
Actinopterygii
ⓘ
Animalia ⓘ Arapaima ⓘ
linked to:
Arapaima mapae
Chordata ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| lifestyle | aquatic ⓘ |
| locomotion | swimming ⓘ |
| nativeTo | South America ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproduction | oviparous ⓘ |
| respiration |
air-breathing
ⓘ
gills ⓘ |
| skeletonType | bony 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: Arapaima mapae Description of subject: Arapaima mapae is a large, air-breathing freshwater fish species in the arapaima family, native to South American river systems.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Arapaima mapae
linked to: Arapaima mapae