Alca
E1040376
Alca is a genus of seabirds in the auk family that includes species such as the razorbill, known for their black-and-white plumage and strong diving abilities in cold northern oceans.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alca canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13437347 — 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: Alca Context triple: [Alcidae, notableGenus, Alca]
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A.
Avià
Avià is a small municipality in the comarca of Berguedà in Catalonia, northeastern Spain.
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B.
Antialcidas
Antialcidas was a prominent Indo-Greek king known for his rule over parts of northwestern India and his role in the cultural and political interactions between the Hellenistic world and the Indian subcontinent.
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C.
Curruca
Curruca is a genus of small insectivorous passerine birds commonly known as typical warblers, found across Europe, Asia, and Africa.
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D.
Gallinago
Gallinago is a genus of medium-sized, long-billed wading birds commonly known as snipes, found in wetlands and marshy habitats worldwide.
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E.
Pájara
Pájara is a coastal municipality on the southwestern part of Fuerteventura in Spain’s Canary Islands, known for its extensive beaches and tourist resorts such as Costa Calma and Morro Jable.
- 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: Alca Target entity description: Alca is a genus of seabirds in the auk family that includes species such as the razorbill, known for their black-and-white plumage and strong diving abilities in cold northern oceans.
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A.
Avià
Avià is a small municipality in the comarca of Berguedà in Catalonia, northeastern Spain.
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B.
Antialcidas
Antialcidas was a prominent Indo-Greek king known for his rule over parts of northwestern India and his role in the cultural and political interactions between the Hellenistic world and the Indian subcontinent.
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C.
Curruca
Curruca is a genus of small insectivorous passerine birds commonly known as typical warblers, found across Europe, Asia, and Africa.
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D.
Gallinago
Gallinago is a genus of medium-sized, long-billed wading birds commonly known as snipes, found in wetlands and marshy habitats worldwide.
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E.
Pájara
Pájara is a coastal municipality on the southwestern part of Fuerteventura in Spain’s Canary Islands, known for its extensive beaches and tourist resorts such as Costa Calma and Morro Jable.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
genus
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| adaptation |
high wing loading for underwater propulsion
ⓘ
streamlined body for diving ⓘ |
| belongsToGroup | auks ⓘ |
| breedingRange | North Atlantic coasts ⓘ |
| clade |
Neoaves
ⓘ
Neognathae ⓘ |
| class | Aves ⓘ |
| commonNameOfSpecies | razorbill ⓘ |
| describedInYear | 1758 ⓘ |
| diet |
crustaceans
ⓘ
fish ⓘ marine invertebrates ⓘ |
| distribution |
North Atlantic Ocean
ⓘ
linked to:
North Atlantic
|
| ecologicalRole | marine predator ⓘ |
| family | Alcidae ⓘ |
| feedingBehavior |
dives for fish
ⓘ
dives for marine invertebrates ⓘ |
| foundInHemisphere | Northern Hemisphere ⓘ |
| habitat |
cold northern oceans
ⓘ
marine environment ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOrigin | New Latin ⓘ |
| includesSpecies | Alca torda ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| lifestyle | seabird ⓘ |
| locomotion |
pursuit diving
ⓘ
underwater swimming using wings ⓘ |
| nestingSite |
rocky islands
ⓘ
sea cliffs ⓘ |
| nonBreedingRange | offshore North Atlantic waters ⓘ |
| notableFor |
black-and-white plumage
ⓘ
strong diving ability ⓘ |
| order | Charadriiformes ⓘ |
| parentTaxon | Alcidae ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| plumageColor |
black upperparts
ⓘ
white underparts ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Cepphus
ⓘ
Fratercula ⓘ Uria ⓘ |
| reproduction | colonial breeder ⓘ |
| taxonAuthor | Carl Linnaeus ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| typeSpecies | Alca torda ⓘ |
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: Alca Description of subject: Alca is a genus of seabirds in the auk family that includes species such as the razorbill, known for their black-and-white plumage and strong diving abilities in cold northern oceans.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.