Gobiidae
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Gobiidae is a large family of mostly small, bottom-dwelling marine and freshwater fishes commonly known as gobies, found in coastal and tropical waters worldwide.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gobiidae canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10897839 — 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: Gobiidae Context triple: [Gobioidei, hasMember, Gobiidae]
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A.
Macrouridae
Macrouridae is a family of deep-sea ray-finned fishes, commonly known as grenadiers or rattails, characterized by their large heads, tapering bodies, and long, whip-like tails.
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B.
Gadidae
Gadidae is a family of marine fish that includes commercially important species such as cod, haddock, and pollock, commonly found in cold and temperate waters of the Northern Hemisphere.
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C.
Gobioidei
Gobioidei is a large suborder of mostly small, bottom-dwelling ray-finned fishes that includes gobies and their close relatives, many of which inhabit marine, brackish, and freshwater environments worldwide.
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D.
Schilbeidae
Schilbeidae is a family of freshwater catfishes native mainly to Africa and parts of Asia, known for their slender bodies and often schooling behavior.
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E.
Eleginopsidae
Eleginopsidae is a small family of marine ray-finned fishes within the notothenioid group, known for inhabiting cold temperate waters of the Southern Hemisphere.
- 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: Gobiidae Target entity description: Gobiidae is a large family of mostly small, bottom-dwelling marine and freshwater fishes commonly known as gobies, found in coastal and tropical waters worldwide.
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A.
Macrouridae
Macrouridae is a family of deep-sea ray-finned fishes, commonly known as grenadiers or rattails, characterized by their large heads, tapering bodies, and long, whip-like tails.
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B.
Gadidae
Gadidae is a family of marine fish that includes commercially important species such as cod, haddock, and pollock, commonly found in cold and temperate waters of the Northern Hemisphere.
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C.
Gobioidei
Gobioidei is a large suborder of mostly small, bottom-dwelling ray-finned fishes that includes gobies and their close relatives, many of which inhabit marine, brackish, and freshwater environments worldwide.
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D.
Schilbeidae
Schilbeidae is a family of freshwater catfishes native mainly to Africa and parts of Asia, known for their slender bodies and often schooling behavior.
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E.
Eleginopsidae
Eleginopsidae is a small family of marine ray-finned fishes within the notothenioid group, known for inhabiting cold temperate waters of the Southern Hemisphere.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fish family
ⓘ
taxonomic family ⓘ |
| class | Actinopterygii ⓘ |
| commonName | gobies ⓘ |
| contains |
Amblyeleotris
ⓘ
Amblyeleotris wheeleri ⓘ
linked to:
Amblyeleotris
Amblygobius ⓘ Bathygobius ⓘ Boleophthalmus ⓘ Cryptocentrus ⓘ Cryptocentrus cinctus ⓘ
linked to:
Cryptocentrus
Elacatinus ⓘ Elacatinus oceanops ⓘ Glossogobius ⓘ Gobius ⓘ Gobius niger ⓘ
linked to:
Gobius
Gobius paganellus ⓘ
linked to:
Gobius
Knipowitschia ⓘ Neogobius ⓘ Padogobius ⓘ Periophthalmus ⓘ Periophthalmus argentilineatus ⓘ
linked to:
Periophthalmus
Periophthalmus barbarus ⓘ
linked to:
Periophthalmus
Pomatoschistus ⓘ Pomatoschistus microps ⓘ
linked to:
Pomatoschistus
Pomatoschistus minutus ⓘ
linked to:
Pomatoschistus
Rhinogobius ⓘ Tridentiger ⓘ Zosterisessor ⓘ |
| describedAs | large family of fishes ⓘ |
| distribution |
temperate coastal regions
ⓘ
tropical regions ⓘ worldwide ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole |
benthic invertebrate predator
ⓘ
prey for larger fishes ⓘ |
| habitat |
brackish waters
ⓘ
coastal waters ⓘ freshwater ⓘ marine waters ⓘ subtropical waters ⓘ tropical waters ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| lifestyle | bottom-dwelling ⓘ |
| notableTrait |
many species exhibit burrow-dwelling behavior
ⓘ
many species form symbiosis with burrowing shrimps ⓘ often have fused pelvic fins forming a suction disc ⓘ |
| order | Gobiiformes ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproduction |
demersal eggs
ⓘ
parental care by males in many species ⓘ |
| taxonRank | family ⓘ |
| typicalSize | small ⓘ |
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: Gobiidae Description of subject: Gobiidae is a large family of mostly small, bottom-dwelling marine and freshwater fishes commonly known as gobies, found in coastal and tropical waters worldwide.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
family Rhyacichthyidae
subject linked to:
family Milyeringidae
subject linked to:
family Kraemeriidae
subject linked to:
family Amblyopinae