Mola
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Mola is a genus of large ocean sunfishes known for their distinctive flattened bodies and immense size, including the common ocean sunfish Mola mola.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mola canonical | 1 |
| Mola tecta | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10989016 — 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: Mola Context triple: [Molidae, typeGenus, Mola]
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A.
Mola
Mola is a Spanish surname most notably associated with Emilio Mola, a key Nationalist general during the Spanish Civil War.
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B.
Manta
Manta is a major coastal city and important seaport in western Ecuador, known for its fishing industry, beaches, and commercial activity.
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C.
Manta
Manta is a flying roller coaster at SeaWorld Orlando that simulates the graceful, gliding motion of a manta ray through a combination of high-speed thrills and aquatic theming.
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D.
Manta
Manta is a distributed object storage and compute service designed for running parallel computations directly on stored data in the cloud.
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E.
Manta
Manta is a municipality located in Almeidas Province in the Cundinamarca Department of central Colombia.
- 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: Mola Target entity description: Mola is a genus of large ocean sunfishes known for their distinctive flattened bodies and immense size, including the common ocean sunfish Mola mola.
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A.
Mola
Mola is a Spanish surname most notably associated with Emilio Mola, a key Nationalist general during the Spanish Civil War.
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B.
Manta
Manta is a major coastal city and important seaport in western Ecuador, known for its fishing industry, beaches, and commercial activity.
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C.
Manta
Manta is a flying roller coaster at SeaWorld Orlando that simulates the graceful, gliding motion of a manta ray through a combination of high-speed thrills and aquatic theming.
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D.
Manta
Manta is a distributed object storage and compute service designed for running parallel computations directly on stored data in the cloud.
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E.
Manta
Manta is a municipality located in Almeidas Province in the Cundinamarca Department of central Colombia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
genus
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| belongsToGroup |
bony fishes
ⓘ
ray-finned fishes ⓘ |
| class | Actinopterygii ⓘ |
| commonName | ocean sunfishes ⓘ |
| conservationConcern | bycatch in fisheries ⓘ |
| describedAs | large ocean sunfishes ⓘ |
| distribution | worldwide oceans ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole | predator of gelatinous zooplankton ⓘ |
| family | Molidae ⓘ |
| habitat |
open ocean
ⓘ
temperate seas ⓘ tropical seas ⓘ |
| hasBodyShape |
disc-like
ⓘ
laterally compressed ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
flattened body
ⓘ
immense size ⓘ |
| hasFinType |
anal fin
ⓘ
dorsal fin ⓘ |
| hasSpecies |
Mola alexandrini
ⓘ
linked to:
Mola mola
Mola mola ⓘ Mola tecta ⓘ
linked to:
Mola
|
| interactionWithHumans | occasionally observed basking at surface ⓘ |
| isKnownFor | largest bony fishes by mass ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| lacksFeature | true caudal fin ⓘ |
| movementStyle | dorsal and anal fin sculling ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Latin word "mola" meaning millstone ⓘ |
| notableSpecies | Mola mola ⓘ |
| order | Tetraodontiformes ⓘ |
| parentTaxon | Molidae ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| preysOn |
crustaceans
ⓘ
ctenophores ⓘ jellyfish ⓘ small fish ⓘ |
| reproduction | oviparous ⓘ |
| researchUse | study of extreme growth in fishes ⓘ |
| scientificName | Mola ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| threat |
entanglement in fishing gear
ⓘ
marine pollution ⓘ |
| typeSpecies | Mola mola ⓘ |
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: Mola Description of subject: Mola is a genus of large ocean sunfishes known for their distinctive flattened bodies and immense size, including the common ocean sunfish Mola mola.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.