Cardinalidae
E179466
Cardinalidae is a family of passerine birds that includes cardinals, grosbeaks, and buntings, known for their often bright plumage and strong, conical bills.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cardinalidae canonical | 22 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1571814 — 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: Cardinalidae Context triple: [Passerida, includes, Cardinalidae]
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A.
Epigonichthys
Epigonichthys is a genus of small, eel-like lancelets within the subphylum Cephalochordata, known for their simple, fish-like bodies that provide key insights into early chordate evolution.
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B.
Siluriformes
Siluriformes is the diverse order of ray-finned fishes commonly known as catfishes, characterized by barbels resembling whiskers and often bottom-dwelling habits in freshwater and some marine environments.
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C.
Passerellidae
Passerellidae is a family of New World sparrows and related small seed-eating songbirds found primarily in the Americas.
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D.
Atheriniformes
Atheriniformes is an order of ray-finned fishes commonly known as silversides, which are typically small, schooling, coastal or freshwater species found worldwide.
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E.
Cracidae
Cracidae is a family of large, primarily arboreal game birds native to the Neotropics, including chachalacas, guans, and curassows.
- 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: Cardinalidae Target entity description: Cardinalidae is a family of passerine birds that includes cardinals, grosbeaks, and buntings, known for their often bright plumage and strong, conical bills.
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A.
Epigonichthys
Epigonichthys is a genus of small, eel-like lancelets within the subphylum Cephalochordata, known for their simple, fish-like bodies that provide key insights into early chordate evolution.
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B.
Siluriformes
Siluriformes is the diverse order of ray-finned fishes commonly known as catfishes, characterized by barbels resembling whiskers and often bottom-dwelling habits in freshwater and some marine environments.
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C.
Passerellidae
Passerellidae is a family of New World sparrows and related small seed-eating songbirds found primarily in the Americas.
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D.
Atheriniformes
Atheriniformes is an order of ray-finned fishes commonly known as silversides, which are typically small, schooling, coastal or freshwater species found worldwide.
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E.
Cracidae
Cracidae is a family of large, primarily arboreal game birds native to the Neotropics, including chachalacas, guans, and curassows.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Cardinalidae Description of subject: Cardinalidae is a family of passerine birds that includes cardinals, grosbeaks, and buntings, known for their often bright plumage and strong, conical bills.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.