Passerida
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Passerida is a large and diverse clade of perching birds that includes many familiar songbirds such as finches, warblers, and sparrows.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Passerida canonical | 21 |
| Passeroidea | 9 |
| Passerides | 4 |
| Oscines | 3 |
| Passeri | 1 |
| Passerida clade | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T250909 — 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: Passerida Context triple: [Mimidae, infraorder, Passerida]
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A.
Passeriformes
Passeriformes is the largest order of birds, commonly known as perching birds or songbirds, encompassing over half of all bird species worldwide.
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B.
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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C.
Accipitriformes
Accipitriformes is an order of birds of prey that includes hawks, eagles, kites, and vultures, characterized by keen eyesight, hooked beaks, and powerful talons.
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D.
Galliformes
Galliformes is an order of heavy-bodied, ground-feeding birds that includes quails, pheasants, turkeys, grouse, and chickens.
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E.
Cracidae
Cracidae is a family of large, primarily arboreal game birds native to the Neotropics, including chachalacas, guans, and curassows.
- 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: Passerida Target entity description: Passerida is a large and diverse clade of perching birds that includes many familiar songbirds such as finches, warblers, and sparrows.
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A.
Passeriformes
Passeriformes is the largest order of birds, commonly known as perching birds or songbirds, encompassing over half of all bird species worldwide.
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B.
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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C.
Accipitriformes
Accipitriformes is an order of birds of prey that includes hawks, eagles, kites, and vultures, characterized by keen eyesight, hooked beaks, and powerful talons.
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D.
Galliformes
Galliformes is an order of heavy-bodied, ground-feeding birds that includes quails, pheasants, turkeys, grouse, and chickens.
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E.
Cracidae
Cracidae is a family of large, primarily arboreal game birds native to the Neotropics, including chachalacas, guans, and curassows.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
clade
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infraorder ⓘ taxon ⓘ |
| belongsToClade |
Aves
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Neognathae ⓘ Passeriformes ⓘ |
| characteristic |
complex vocalizations
ⓘ
perching feet with three toes forward and one back ⓘ song-learning behavior in many species ⓘ |
| commonName | Passeridan songbirds ⓘ |
| distribution | worldwide ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole |
frugivores
ⓘ
granivores ⓘ insectivores ⓘ |
| includes |
Aegithalidae
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Alaudidae ⓘ Bombycillidae ⓘ Cardinalidae ⓘ Cinclidae ⓘ Emberizidae ⓘ Estrildidae ⓘ Fringillid-type finches ⓘ Fringillidae ⓘ Hirundinidae ⓘ Icteridae ⓘ Motacillidae ⓘ Muscicapidae ⓘ Nectariniidae ⓘ Old World sparrows ⓘ Paridae ⓘ Parulidae ⓘ Passeridae ⓘ Prunellidae ⓘ Regulidae ⓘ Remizidae ⓘ Sturnidae ⓘ Sylviidae ⓘ Thraupidae ⓘ Turdidae ⓘ many flycatchers ⓘ many pipits ⓘ many swallows ⓘ many thrushes ⓘ many wagtails ⓘ many warblers ⓘ |
| isA |
group of perching birds
ⓘ
group of songbirds ⓘ |
| parentTaxon |
Passeri
ⓘ
Passeriformes ⓘ |
| taxonRank | infraorder ⓘ |
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: Passerida Description of subject: Passerida is a large and diverse clade of perching birds that includes many familiar songbirds such as finches, warblers, and sparrows.
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