Megupsilon
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Megupsilon is an extinct genus of small pupfish known from fossil remains found in North America.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Megupsilon canonical | 2 |
| Megupsilon aporus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11177082 — 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: Megupsilon Context triple: [Cyprinodontidae, hasMember, Megupsilon]
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A.
Megapenthes
Megapenthes is a lesser-known figure in Greek mythology, traditionally regarded as an illegitimate son of Menelaus who later becomes king of Argos.
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B.
Moropus
Moropus is an extinct genus of horse-like, clawed herbivorous mammals that lived in North America during the Miocene epoch.
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C.
Carpediemonas
Carpediemonas is a genus of free-living, flagellated protists within the Excavata supergroup, notable for its unusual cell biology and relevance to studies of early eukaryotic evolution.
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D.
Monoclonius
Monoclonius is a dubious genus of ceratopsid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of North America, historically known from fragmentary horned dinosaur fossils.
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E.
Monrupino
Monrupino is a small municipality in northeastern Italy near the Slovenian border, known for its Karst landscape and bilingual Italian-Slovene cultural heritage.
- 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: Megupsilon Target entity description: Megupsilon is an extinct genus of small pupfish known from fossil remains found in North America.
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A.
Megapenthes
Megapenthes is a lesser-known figure in Greek mythology, traditionally regarded as an illegitimate son of Menelaus who later becomes king of Argos.
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B.
Moropus
Moropus is an extinct genus of horse-like, clawed herbivorous mammals that lived in North America during the Miocene epoch.
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C.
Carpediemonas
Carpediemonas is a genus of free-living, flagellated protists within the Excavata supergroup, notable for its unusual cell biology and relevance to studies of early eukaryotic evolution.
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D.
Monoclonius
Monoclonius is a dubious genus of ceratopsid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of North America, historically known from fragmentary horned dinosaur fossils.
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E.
Monrupino
Monrupino is a small municipality in northeastern Italy near the Slovenian border, known for its Karst landscape and bilingual Italian-Slovene cultural heritage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
extinct genus
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extinct species ⓘ fish genus ⓘ pupfish ⓘ taxon ⓘ |
| class | Actinopterygii ⓘ |
| commonName | pupfish genus ⓘ |
| describedAs | small pupfish ⓘ |
| extinctionStatus | extinct ⓘ |
| family |
Cyprinodontidae
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Cyprinodontidae ⓘ |
| fossilRange |
Quaternary
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linked to:
Quaternary period
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| foundInContinent | North America ⓘ |
| genus | Megupsilon ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution |
North America
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North America ⓘ |
| hasSpecies |
Megupsilon aporus
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linked to:
Megupsilon
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| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| knownFrom | fossil remains ⓘ |
| lifeFormType | ray-finned fish ⓘ |
| order | Cyprinodontiformes ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| status |
extinct
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extinct ⓘ |
| taxonRank |
genus
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species ⓘ |
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: Megupsilon Description of subject: Megupsilon is an extinct genus of small pupfish known from fossil remains found in North America.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.