Swan
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Swan is a large, graceful waterbird known for its long neck, white or black plumage, and strong cultural associations with beauty and elegance.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Swan canonical | 11 |
| Silver swan | 1 |
| the Swan | 1 |
| whooper swan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2610552 — 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: Swan Context triple: [Sydney Swans, hasMascot, Swan]
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A.
Swan of Lichfield
The Swan of Lichfield is the celebrated nickname of English Romantic-era poet and letter-writer Anna Seward, renowned for her eloquent verse and influential literary salon in Lichfield.
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B.
Swallow
Swallow is the Allied reporting name for the Japanese World War II fighter aircraft Kawasaki Ki-61, known for its inline engine and resemblance to contemporary European fighters.
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C.
Svans
Svans are a distinct subethnic group of Georgians known for their unique Svan language, highland culture, and traditional communities in the Svaneti region of the Caucasus.
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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.
Kingfisher
Kingfisher is a brightly colored, medium-sized bird known for its long sharp bill, excellent fishing skills, and rapid, direct flight often seen near rivers and lakes.
- 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: Swan Target entity description: Swan is a large, graceful waterbird known for its long neck, white or black plumage, and strong cultural associations with beauty and elegance.
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A.
Swan of Lichfield
The Swan of Lichfield is the celebrated nickname of English Romantic-era poet and letter-writer Anna Seward, renowned for her eloquent verse and influential literary salon in Lichfield.
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B.
Swallow
Swallow is the Allied reporting name for the Japanese World War II fighter aircraft Kawasaki Ki-61, known for its inline engine and resemblance to contemporary European fighters.
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C.
Svans
Svans are a distinct subethnic group of Georgians known for their unique Svan language, highland culture, and traditional communities in the Svaneti region of the Caucasus.
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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.
Kingfisher
Kingfisher is a brightly colored, medium-sized bird known for its long sharp bill, excellent fishing skills, and rapid, direct flight often seen near rivers and lakes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Animal
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Bird ⓘ Vertebrate ⓘ Waterbird ⓘ |
| belongsToGenus | Cygnus ⓘ |
| class | Aves ⓘ |
| diet |
algae
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aquatic plants ⓘ small aquatic animals ⓘ |
| family | Anatidae ⓘ |
| habitat |
lakes
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rivers ⓘ wetlands ⓘ |
| hasBehavior |
migratory movement
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strong pair bonding ⓘ territoriality ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
broad wings
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large body size ⓘ long neck ⓘ webbed feet ⓘ |
| hasNotableSpecies |
Black swan
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Black-necked swan ⓘ Mute swan ⓘ Trumpeter swan ⓘ Tundra swan ⓘ Whooper swan ⓘ |
| hasPlumageColor |
black
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white ⓘ |
| isAssociatedWith |
ballet
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beauty ⓘ classical music ⓘ elegance ⓘ fairy tales ⓘ fidelity ⓘ grace ⓘ mythology ⓘ poetry ⓘ purity ⓘ romance ⓘ transformation ⓘ |
| isSymbolIn |
Asian culture
ⓘ
European culture ⓘ |
| isSymbolOf |
love
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loyalty ⓘ nobility ⓘ spirituality ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| order | Anseriformes ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproduction |
builds nests near water
ⓘ
lays eggs ⓘ |
| taxonRank | Genus ⓘ |
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: Swan Description of subject: Swan is a large, graceful waterbird known for its long neck, white or black plumage, and strong cultural associations with beauty and elegance.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.