Diomedeidae
E179366
Diomedeidae is the biological family of large seabirds known as albatrosses, renowned for their long wingspans and oceanic soaring flight.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Diomedeidae canonical | 17 |
| Diomedeinae | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1584392 — 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: Diomedeidae Context triple: [Aves, hasSubgroup, Diomedeidae]
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A.
Iapetids
The Iapetids are a mythological family descended from the Titan Iapetus, including notable figures such as Prometheus, Epimetheus, Atlas, and Menoetius in Greek mythology.
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B.
Phocidae
Phocidae is the family of earless or true seals, a group of fully aquatic, fin-footed marine mammals adapted for life in cold and temperate oceans worldwide.
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C.
Thaliacea
Thaliacea is a class of free-floating, barrel-shaped marine tunicates that form part of the plankton and often live in colonies.
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D.
Sagittariidae
Sagittariidae is a small bird family best known for the secretarybird, a distinctive long-legged raptor native to sub-Saharan Africa.
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E.
Orcines
Orcines is a commune in central France’s Puy-de-Dôme department, known for its proximity to the Chaîne des Puys volcanic range.
- 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: Diomedeidae Target entity description: Diomedeidae is the biological family of large seabirds known as albatrosses, renowned for their long wingspans and oceanic soaring flight.
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A.
Iapetids
The Iapetids are a mythological family descended from the Titan Iapetus, including notable figures such as Prometheus, Epimetheus, Atlas, and Menoetius in Greek mythology.
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B.
Phocidae
Phocidae is the family of earless or true seals, a group of fully aquatic, fin-footed marine mammals adapted for life in cold and temperate oceans worldwide.
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C.
Thaliacea
Thaliacea is a class of free-floating, barrel-shaped marine tunicates that form part of the plankton and often live in colonies.
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D.
Sagittariidae
Sagittariidae is a small bird family best known for the secretarybird, a distinctive long-legged raptor native to sub-Saharan Africa.
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E.
Orcines
Orcines is a commune in central France’s Puy-de-Dôme department, known for its proximity to the Chaîne des Puys volcanic range.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bird family
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taxon ⓘ |
| class | Aves ⓘ |
| commonName | albatrosses ⓘ |
| conservationStatus | many species threatened ⓘ |
| describedBy |
Nicholas Aylward Vigors
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Thomas Horsfield ⓘ |
| diet |
fish
ⓘ
krill ⓘ other marine invertebrates ⓘ squid ⓘ |
| distribution |
North Pacific Ocean
ⓘ
linked to:
Northern Pacific Ocean
South Atlantic Ocean ⓘ
linked to:
South Atlantic
South Pacific Ocean ⓘ Southern Ocean ⓘ |
| flightStyle |
dynamic soaring
ⓘ
slope soaring ⓘ |
| foragingStrategy |
following fishing vessels
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scavenging ⓘ surface seizing ⓘ |
| habitat |
pelagic waters
ⓘ
remote oceanic islands ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
dynamic soaring flight
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hooked bills ⓘ large seabirds ⓘ long wingspans ⓘ oceanic lifestyle ⓘ tube-shaped external nostrils ⓘ webbed feet ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| lifespan | long-lived birds ⓘ |
| majorThreat |
habitat degradation on nesting sites
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introduced predators on breeding islands ⓘ longline fisheries bycatch ⓘ marine pollution ⓘ plastic ingestion ⓘ trawl fisheries bycatch ⓘ |
| notableSpecies |
Diomedea exulans
ⓘ
Phoebastria nigripes ⓘ Phoebetria fusca ⓘ Thalassarche melanophris ⓘ |
| order | Procellariiformes ⓘ |
| parentalCare | biparental care ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| protectedBy | Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels ⓘ |
| reproduction |
colonial breeder
ⓘ
lays single egg per breeding attempt ⓘ |
| taxonRank | family ⓘ |
| typeGenus | Diomedea ⓘ |
| yearDescribed | 1826 ⓘ |
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: Diomedeidae Description of subject: Diomedeidae is the biological family of large seabirds known as albatrosses, renowned for their long wingspans and oceanic soaring flight.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.