Icteridae
E179467
Icteridae is a family of New World passerine birds that includes blackbirds, orioles, grackles, cowbirds, and related species known for their often striking plumage and vocalizations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Icteridae canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1571816 — 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: Icteridae Context triple: [Passerida, includes, Icteridae]
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Phasianidae
Phasianidae is a large family of birds that includes pheasants, partridges, junglefowl, and related ground-dwelling gamebirds known for their often colorful plumage and importance in hunting and agriculture.
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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.
Sturnidae
Sturnidae is a family of small to medium-sized passerine birds, including starlings and mynas, known for their social behavior, vocal mimicry, and often iridescent plumage.
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D.
Ardeotis
Ardeotis is a genus of large terrestrial birds in the bustard family, found in open grassland and semi-arid habitats across parts of Africa and Asia.
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E.
Fringillidae
Fringillidae is a large family of small to medium-sized passerine birds commonly known as true finches, found worldwide and noted for their stout conical bills adapted for seed eating.
- 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: Icteridae Target entity description: Icteridae is a family of New World passerine birds that includes blackbirds, orioles, grackles, cowbirds, and related species known for their often striking plumage and vocalizations.
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A.
Phasianidae
Phasianidae is a large family of birds that includes pheasants, partridges, junglefowl, and related ground-dwelling gamebirds known for their often colorful plumage and importance in hunting and agriculture.
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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.
Sturnidae
Sturnidae is a family of small to medium-sized passerine birds, including starlings and mynas, known for their social behavior, vocal mimicry, and often iridescent plumage.
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D.
Ardeotis
Ardeotis is a genus of large terrestrial birds in the bustard family, found in open grassland and semi-arid habitats across parts of Africa and Asia.
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E.
Fringillidae
Fringillidae is a large family of small to medium-sized passerine birds commonly known as true finches, found worldwide and noted for their stout conical bills adapted for seed eating.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
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: Icteridae Description of subject: Icteridae is a family of New World passerine birds that includes blackbirds, orioles, grackles, cowbirds, and related species known for their often striking plumage and vocalizations.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.