Tyrannoidea
E179384
Tyrannoidea is a superfamily of passerine birds that includes the diverse New World tyrant flycatchers and their close relatives.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tyrannoidea canonical | 2 |
| suborder Tyranni | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1584466 — 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: Tyrannoidea Context triple: [Aves, hasSubgroup, Tyrannoidea]
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A.
Tyrannosauridae
Tyrannosauridae is a family of large, bipedal, carnivorous theropod dinosaurs that includes iconic genera such as Tyrannosaurus.
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B.
Nyahbinghi order
The Nyahbinghi order is a traditional Rastafari mansion known for its strict adherence to early Rastafari principles, communal lifestyle, and ceremonial drumming and chanting.
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C.
Falacrinae
Falacrinae was a small ancient village in central Italy, best known as the birthplace of the Roman emperor Vespasian.
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D.
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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E.
Pandionidae
Pandionidae is a small family of birds of prey best known for the osprey, a fish-eating raptor found near coasts and inland waters worldwide.
- 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: Tyrannoidea Target entity description: Tyrannoidea is a superfamily of passerine birds that includes the diverse New World tyrant flycatchers and their close relatives.
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A.
Tyrannosauridae
Tyrannosauridae is a family of large, bipedal, carnivorous theropod dinosaurs that includes iconic genera such as Tyrannosaurus.
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B.
Nyahbinghi order
The Nyahbinghi order is a traditional Rastafari mansion known for its strict adherence to early Rastafari principles, communal lifestyle, and ceremonial drumming and chanting.
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C.
Falacrinae
Falacrinae was a small ancient village in central Italy, best known as the birthplace of the Roman emperor Vespasian.
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D.
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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E.
Pandionidae
Pandionidae is a small family of birds of prey best known for the osprey, a fish-eating raptor found near coasts and inland waters worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bird superfamily
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| characteristic |
mostly insectivorous
ⓘ
perching birds ⓘ vocalizations often simple compared to oscines ⓘ |
| commonName | tyrannoids ⓘ |
| containsTaxon |
cotingas
ⓘ
manakins ⓘ tityras and allies ⓘ tyrant flycatchers ⓘ |
| distinguishedBy | suboscine syrinx structure ⓘ |
| distinguishedFrom |
Passeroidea
ⓘ
linked to:
Passerida
|
| distribution | New World ⓘ |
| habitat |
forests
ⓘ
savannas ⓘ scrublands ⓘ woodlands ⓘ |
| hasMemberCount | hundreds of species ⓘ |
| higherClassification |
Aves
ⓘ
Neornithes ⓘ Passeri and Tyranni clade of passerines ⓘ |
| includes |
Conopophagidae
ⓘ
Cotingidae ⓘ Formicariidae ⓘ Furnariidae ⓘ Grallariidae ⓘ Melanopareiidae ⓘ Onychorhynchidae ⓘ Oxyruncidae ⓘ Pipridae ⓘ Pipritidae ⓘ
linked to:
Pipridae
Platyrinchidae ⓘ Rhinocryptidae ⓘ
linked to:
Conirostrum
Rhynchocyclidae ⓘ Thamnophilidae ⓘ Tityridae ⓘ Tyrannidae ⓘ families of tyrant flycatchers and allies ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
order Passeriformes
ⓘ
suborder Tyranni ⓘ
linked to:
Tyrannoidea
|
| nativeTo |
Caribbean
ⓘ
Central America ⓘ North America ⓘ South America ⓘ |
| parentTaxon |
Passeriformes
ⓘ
Tyranni ⓘ |
| phylogeneticPosition | major clade within suboscine passerines ⓘ |
| taxonRank | superfamily ⓘ |
| temporalRange | Cenozoic ⓘ |
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: Tyrannoidea Description of subject: Tyrannoidea is a superfamily of passerine birds that includes the diverse New World tyrant flycatchers and their close relatives.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Tyrannoidea