Sylviidae
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Sylviidae is a family of small insectivorous passerine birds commonly known as Old World warblers, found across Europe, Asia, and Africa.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sylviidae canonical | 33 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1571798 — 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: Sylviidae Context triple: [Passerida, includes, Sylviidae]
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A.
Nandiniidae
Nandiniidae is a small family of African carnivorous mammals best known for the African palm civet, a solitary, arboreal species with a cat-like appearance.
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B.
Ailuridae
Ailuridae is a family of mammals best known for the red panda, a small, arboreal, bamboo-eating species native to the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China.
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C.
Reduncinae
Reduncinae is a subfamily of African antelopes within the Bovidae family, including species such as reedbucks, kobs, and waterbucks that are typically associated with wetland and grassland habitats.
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D.
Certhidea
Certhidea is a genus of small songbirds endemic to the Galápagos Islands, commonly known as warbler-finches and notable as part of Darwin’s finch radiation.
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E.
Acanthisitti
Acanthisitti is a small, ancient suborder of New Zealand wrens considered among the most basal and evolutionarily distinct lineages of passerine birds.
- 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: Sylviidae Target entity description: Sylviidae is a family of small insectivorous passerine birds commonly known as Old World warblers, found across Europe, Asia, and Africa.
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A.
Nandiniidae
Nandiniidae is a small family of African carnivorous mammals best known for the African palm civet, a solitary, arboreal species with a cat-like appearance.
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B.
Ailuridae
Ailuridae is a family of mammals best known for the red panda, a small, arboreal, bamboo-eating species native to the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China.
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C.
Reduncinae
Reduncinae is a subfamily of African antelopes within the Bovidae family, including species such as reedbucks, kobs, and waterbucks that are typically associated with wetland and grassland habitats.
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D.
Certhidea
Certhidea is a genus of small songbirds endemic to the Galápagos Islands, commonly known as warbler-finches and notable as part of Darwin’s finch radiation.
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E.
Acanthisitti
Acanthisitti is a small, ancient suborder of New Zealand wrens considered among the most basal and evolutionarily distinct lineages of passerine birds.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bird family
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taxon ⓘ |
| class | Aves ⓘ |
| commonName | Old World warblers ⓘ |
| contains |
Abroscopus
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Acrocephalus ⓘ Apalis ⓘ Artisornis ⓘ Bathmocercus ⓘ Bradypterus ⓘ Calamonastes ⓘ Camaroptera ⓘ Cettia ⓘ Cisticola ⓘ
linked to:
Cisticolidae
Curruca ⓘ Drymocichla ⓘ Eremomela ⓘ Euryptila ⓘ Hippolais ⓘ Horornis ⓘ Hylia ⓘ Iduna ⓘ Locustella ⓘ Megalurus ⓘ
linked to:
Horornis
Oreophilais ⓘ Pholidornis ⓘ Phragmacia ⓘ Phylloscopus ⓘ Prinia ⓘ Scepomycter ⓘ Schistolais ⓘ Schoenicola ⓘ Spiloptila ⓘ Sylvia ⓘ Tickellia ⓘ Urosphena ⓘ |
| diet | insectivorous ⓘ |
| distribution |
Africa
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Asia ⓘ Europe ⓘ |
| habitat |
grasslands
ⓘ
scrub ⓘ woodlands ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
mostly dull or cryptic plumage
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slender bill adapted for insect feeding ⓘ |
| infraorder | Passerida ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| lifestyle | arboreal ⓘ |
| namedBy | Louis Pierre Vieillot ⓘ |
| nativeTo | Old World ⓘ |
| order | Passeriformes ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproduction | oviparous ⓘ |
| suborder | Passeri ⓘ |
| 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: Sylviidae Description of subject: Sylviidae is a family of small insectivorous passerine birds commonly known as Old World warblers, found across Europe, Asia, and Africa.
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.