Porphyrio
E237269
Porphyrio is a genus of large, brightly colored rails commonly known as swamphens, which includes species such as the takahē and purple swamphen.
All labels observed (13)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Porphyrio canonical | 3 |
| Porphyrio hochstetteri | 3 |
| Porphyrio porphyrio | 3 |
| Porphyrio martinicus | 2 |
| Porphyrio melanotus | 2 |
| Porphyrio albus | 1 |
| Porphyrio alleni | 1 |
| Porphyrio coerulescens | 1 |
| Porphyrio flavirostris | 1 |
| Porphyrio indicus | 1 |
| Porphyrio madagascariensis | 1 |
| Porphyrio poliocephalus | 1 |
| Porphyrio pulverulentus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2137886 — 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: Porphyrio Context triple: [takahē, genus, Porphyrio]
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A.
Picus
Picus is a figure from Roman mythology, a handsome king and hunter who was transformed into a woodpecker by the sorceress Circe.
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B.
Pavo
Pavo is a genus of large, colorful birds in the pheasant family that includes the well-known peafowls.
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C.
Sturnus
Sturnus is a genus of passerine birds in the starling family, historically including the European starling and several closely related species found across Eurasia and surrounding regions.
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D.
Acanthisitti
Acanthisitti is a small, ancient suborder of New Zealand wrens considered among the most basal and evolutionarily distinct lineages of passerine birds.
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E.
Ramphocelus
Ramphocelus is a genus of brightly colored Neotropical tanagers known for their striking red, orange, and yellow plumage, commonly found in forest edges and secondary growth.
- 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: Porphyrio Target entity description: Porphyrio is a genus of large, brightly colored rails commonly known as swamphens, which includes species such as the takahē and purple swamphen.
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A.
Picus
Picus is a figure from Roman mythology, a handsome king and hunter who was transformed into a woodpecker by the sorceress Circe.
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B.
Pavo
Pavo is a genus of large, colorful birds in the pheasant family that includes the well-known peafowls.
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C.
Sturnus
Sturnus is a genus of passerine birds in the starling family, historically including the European starling and several closely related species found across Eurasia and surrounding regions.
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D.
Acanthisitti
Acanthisitti is a small, ancient suborder of New Zealand wrens considered among the most basal and evolutionarily distinct lineages of passerine birds.
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E.
Ramphocelus
Ramphocelus is a genus of brightly colored Neotropical tanagers known for their striking red, orange, and yellow plumage, commonly found in forest edges and secondary growth.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
genus
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| associatedCommonName |
gallinule in some American species
ⓘ
swamphen ⓘ |
| billDescription | stout red bill in many species ⓘ |
| bodySize | large for rails ⓘ |
| class | Aves ⓘ |
| commonName | swamphens ⓘ |
| describedAs | large brightly colored rails ⓘ |
| diet |
invertebrates
ⓘ
omnivorous ⓘ plant material ⓘ |
| family | Rallidae ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution |
Africa
ⓘ
Americas ⓘ Asia ⓘ Australasia ⓘ
linked to:
Oceania
Europe ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Porphyrio albus
ⓘ
linked to:
Porphyrio
Porphyrio alleni ⓘ
linked to:
Porphyrio
Porphyrio coerulescens ⓘ
linked to:
Porphyrio
Porphyrio flavirostris ⓘ
linked to:
Porphyrio
Porphyrio hochstetteri ⓘ
linked to:
Porphyrio
Porphyrio indicus ⓘ
linked to:
Porphyrio
Porphyrio madagascariensis ⓘ
linked to:
Porphyrio
Porphyrio martinicus ⓘ
linked to:
Porphyrio
Porphyrio melanotus ⓘ
linked to:
Porphyrio
Porphyrio poliocephalus ⓘ
linked to:
Porphyrio
Porphyrio porphyrio ⓘ
linked to:
Porphyrio
Porphyrio pulverulentus ⓘ
linked to:
Porphyrio
|
| includesCommonName |
American purple gallinule
ⓘ
Australasian swamphen ⓘ purple swamphen ⓘ takahē ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| legDescription | long legs ⓘ |
| notableSpecies |
Porphyrio hochstetteri
ⓘ
linked to:
Porphyrio
Porphyrio martinicus ⓘ
linked to:
Porphyrio
Porphyrio porphyrio ⓘ
linked to:
Porphyrio
|
| order | Gruiformes ⓘ |
| parentTaxon | Rallidae ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| plumageColoration | brightly colored ⓘ |
| reproductiveBehavior | ground or low-vegetation nesting near water ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| toeDescription | long toes adapted for walking on aquatic vegetation ⓘ |
| typicalHabitat |
marshes
ⓘ
swamps ⓘ wetlands ⓘ |
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: Porphyrio Description of subject: Porphyrio is a genus of large, brightly colored rails commonly known as swamphens, which includes species such as the takahē and purple swamphen.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Porphyrio
linked to: Porphyrio
linked to: Porphyrio
linked to: Porphyrio