red knot
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The red knot is a medium-sized migratory shorebird known for its long-distance Arctic-to-coastline migrations and reliance on coastal stopover sites rich in invertebrate prey.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| red knot canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2384854 — 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: red knot Context triple: [Pacific Flyway, supportsSpecies, red knot]
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A.
Kentish plover
The Kentish plover is a small, pale shorebird of sandy coasts and salt flats, known for its quick, darting movements and widespread breeding across Eurasia and North Africa.
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B.
Lark bunting
The lark bunting is a medium-sized North American sparrow known for the male’s striking black-and-white breeding plumage and melodious song, commonly found in the grasslands of the central United States.
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C.
Torgos tracheliotos
Torgos tracheliotos, commonly known as the lappet-faced vulture, is a large, powerful African vulture distinguished by its bare, wrinkled head and strong bill adapted for tearing tough carcasses.
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D.
red-necked phalarope
The red-necked phalarope is a small, migratory wader known for its distinctive reddish neck in breeding plumage and unusual behavior of females being more brightly colored and males incubating the eggs.
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E.
Black robin
The black robin is a small, critically endangered passerine bird from New Zealand’s Chatham Islands, famous for being saved from near-extinction when its global population fell to just five individuals.
- 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: red knot Target entity description: The red knot is a medium-sized migratory shorebird known for its long-distance Arctic-to-coastline migrations and reliance on coastal stopover sites rich in invertebrate prey.
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A.
Kentish plover
The Kentish plover is a small, pale shorebird of sandy coasts and salt flats, known for its quick, darting movements and widespread breeding across Eurasia and North Africa.
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B.
Lark bunting
The lark bunting is a medium-sized North American sparrow known for the male’s striking black-and-white breeding plumage and melodious song, commonly found in the grasslands of the central United States.
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C.
Torgos tracheliotos
Torgos tracheliotos, commonly known as the lappet-faced vulture, is a large, powerful African vulture distinguished by its bare, wrinkled head and strong bill adapted for tearing tough carcasses.
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D.
red-necked phalarope
The red-necked phalarope is a small, migratory wader known for its distinctive reddish neck in breeding plumage and unusual behavior of females being more brightly colored and males incubating the eggs.
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E.
Black robin
The black robin is a small, critically endangered passerine bird from New Zealand’s Chatham Islands, famous for being saved from near-extinction when its global population fell to just five individuals.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bird species
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migratory bird ⓘ shorebird ⓘ |
| bodySize | medium-sized shorebird ⓘ |
| breedingRange |
Arctic tundra
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High Arctic regions ⓘ |
| class | Aves ⓘ |
| clutchSize | typically 3–4 eggs ⓘ |
| commonName |
knot
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red knot ⓘ |
| conservationStatus | Near Threatened ⓘ |
| describedAs | Calidris canutus by Linnaeus ⓘ |
| diet |
arthropods
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bivalve mollusks ⓘ invertebrates ⓘ marine worms ⓘ |
| family | Scolopacidae ⓘ |
| flightCapability | strong flier ⓘ |
| foragingBehavior | probes sediment for invertebrates ⓘ |
| genus | Calidris ⓘ |
| habitat |
coastal mudflats
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estuaries ⓘ sandy beaches ⓘ |
| importantStopoverRegion | Delaware Bay ⓘ |
| keyPreyDuringMigration | horseshoe crab eggs ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| migrationDistance | can exceed 15,000 kilometers one way ⓘ |
| migrationPattern | Arctic-to-coastline migration ⓘ |
| migratoryBehavior | long-distance migrant ⓘ |
| nonBreedingRange |
African coasts
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Atlantic coasts of the Americas ⓘ Australasian coasts ⓘ European coasts ⓘ coastal areas worldwide ⓘ |
| notableBehavior |
times migration to food availability peaks
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uses coastal stopover sites during migration ⓘ |
| order | Charadriiformes ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| plumage |
breeding plumage includes reddish underparts
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non-breeding plumage is grayish ⓘ |
| recognizedBy | ornithologists ⓘ |
| reproduction | nests on ground in Arctic tundra ⓘ |
| scientificName | Calidris canutus ⓘ |
| socialBehavior | forms flocks, especially during migration ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| threat |
decline of key prey species
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disturbance at stopover sites ⓘ loss of coastal stopover habitat ⓘ |
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: red knot Description of subject: The red knot is a medium-sized migratory shorebird known for its long-distance Arctic-to-coastline migrations and reliance on coastal stopover sites rich in invertebrate prey.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.