Merlin Bird ID
E184365
Merlin Bird ID is a popular bird identification app developed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology that helps users recognize bird species through photos, sounds, and guided questions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Merlin Bird ID canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1636696 — 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: Merlin Bird ID Context triple: [eBird, integratesWith, Merlin Bird ID]
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A.
Birdsong
Birdsong is a bestselling historical novel by Sebastian Faulks that interweaves a passionate pre–World War I love affair with harrowing depictions of trench warfare on the Western Front.
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B.
All About Birds
All About Birds is an online birding resource that provides identification guides, photos, sounds, and expert information on bird species, created and maintained by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
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C.
Canary
Canary is an experimental, bleeding-edge release channel of Google Chrome that provides the newest features and updates ahead of other versions, often at the cost of stability.
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D.
Venetian Bird
Venetian Bird is a 1952 British film noir thriller, also known as The Assassin, in which Sterling Hayden plays an American private investigator entangled in political intrigue in postwar Venice.
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E.
eBird
eBird is a global, citizen-science bird observation platform and database that allows birdwatchers to record, share, and explore bird sightings 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: Merlin Bird ID Target entity description: Merlin Bird ID is a popular bird identification app developed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology that helps users recognize bird species through photos, sounds, and guided questions.
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A.
Birdsong
Birdsong is a bestselling historical novel by Sebastian Faulks that interweaves a passionate pre–World War I love affair with harrowing depictions of trench warfare on the Western Front.
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B.
All About Birds
All About Birds is an online birding resource that provides identification guides, photos, sounds, and expert information on bird species, created and maintained by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
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C.
Canary
Canary is an experimental, bleeding-edge release channel of Google Chrome that provides the newest features and updates ahead of other versions, often at the cost of stability.
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D.
Venetian Bird
Venetian Bird is a 1952 British film noir thriller, also known as The Assassin, in which Sterling Hayden plays an American private investigator entangled in political intrigue in postwar Venice.
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E.
eBird
eBird is a global, citizen-science bird observation platform and database that allows birdwatchers to record, share, and explore bird sightings worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bird identification app
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mobile application ⓘ |
| affiliation | Cornell University ⓘ |
| category |
birding app
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wildlife identification app ⓘ |
| cost | free ⓘ |
| dataSource |
Cornell Lab of Ornithology bird databases
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linked to:
eBird
eBird observations ⓘ |
| developer | Cornell Lab of Ornithology ⓘ |
| feature |
bird song recording and analysis
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checklist of likely birds by location and date ⓘ guided bird ID questions ⓘ integration with eBird ⓘ offline bird field guide content ⓘ photo-based bird identification ⓘ regional bird packs download ⓘ sound-based bird identification ⓘ |
| genre |
educational software
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field guide software ⓘ |
| hasPart |
explore birds browser
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photo ID tool ⓘ saved sightings list ⓘ sound ID tool ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| licenseModel | freeware ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Android
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iOS ⓘ |
| organizationBehind | Cornell Lab of Ornithology ⓘ |
| platform |
Apple App Store
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linked to:
App Store
Google Play ⓘ
linked to:
Google Play Store
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| primaryFunction | bird species identification ⓘ |
| publisher | Cornell Lab of Ornithology ⓘ |
| purpose |
assist users in identifying birds in the field
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provide accessible bird information to the public ⓘ |
| supportsGeographicCoverage |
Asia
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Europe ⓘ North America ⓘ South America ⓘ multiple continents ⓘ |
| supportsInput |
bird photos
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bird sound recordings ⓘ user answers to identification questions ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
beginner birders
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birdwatchers ⓘ nature enthusiasts ⓘ |
| usesTechnology |
audio pattern recognition
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computer vision ⓘ machine learning ⓘ |
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: Merlin Bird ID Description of subject: Merlin Bird ID is a popular bird identification app developed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology that helps users recognize bird species through photos, sounds, and guided questions.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.