Platalea
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Platalea is a genus of large, long-legged wading birds known as spoonbills, characterized by their distinctive spatula-shaped bills and found in wetlands worldwide.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Platalea canonical | 4 |
| Platalea ajaja | 2 |
| Platalea minor | 2 |
| Platalea alba | 1 |
| Platalea flavipes | 1 |
| Platalea regia | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5275990 — 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: Platalea Context triple: [roseate spoonbill, genus, Platalea]
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A.
Tadorna
Tadorna is a genus of large, colorful waterfowl commonly known as shelducks, found across Eurasia, Africa, and Australasia.
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B.
Branta
Branta is a genus of black geese that includes species such as the barnacle goose, brant goose, and the Hawaiian nēnē.
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C.
Cloetta
Cloetta is a Swedish confectionery company known for producing a wide range of chocolates, candies, and other sweets for the Nordic and European markets.
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D.
Patos
Patos is a municipality in the state of Paraíba in northeastern Brazil, known as a regional commercial and service center in the semi-arid hinterland.
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E.
Eider
The Eider is a major river in northern Germany that historically marked the boundary between Schleswig and Holstein and flows into the North Sea.
- 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: Platalea Target entity description: Platalea is a genus of large, long-legged wading birds known as spoonbills, characterized by their distinctive spatula-shaped bills and found in wetlands worldwide.
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A.
Tadorna
Tadorna is a genus of large, colorful waterfowl commonly known as shelducks, found across Eurasia, Africa, and Australasia.
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B.
Branta
Branta is a genus of black geese that includes species such as the barnacle goose, brant goose, and the Hawaiian nēnē.
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C.
Cloetta
Cloetta is a Swedish confectionery company known for producing a wide range of chocolates, candies, and other sweets for the Nordic and European markets.
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D.
Patos
Patos is a municipality in the state of Paraíba in northeastern Brazil, known as a regional commercial and service center in the semi-arid hinterland.
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E.
Eider
The Eider is a major river in northern Germany that historically marked the boundary between Schleswig and Holstein and flows into the North Sea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
genus
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| clade |
Aequornithes
ⓘ
Neoaves ⓘ Pelecanimorphae ⓘ
linked to:
Pelecaniformes
|
| class | Aves ⓘ |
| commonName | spoonbills ⓘ |
| describedAs | large long-legged wading birds ⓘ |
| diet |
aquatic invertebrates
ⓘ
crustaceans ⓘ insects ⓘ small fish ⓘ |
| distribution |
Africa
ⓘ
Asia ⓘ Australia ⓘ Europe ⓘ worldwide ⓘ |
| eggColor | white ⓘ |
| family | Threskiornithidae ⓘ |
| feedingBehavior |
sweeping bill side-to-side in water
ⓘ
wading in shallow water ⓘ |
| firstDescribedBy | Carl Linnaeus ⓘ |
| habitat |
estuaries
ⓘ
marshes ⓘ mudflats ⓘ shallow lakes ⓘ wetlands ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
long legs
ⓘ
long neck ⓘ spatula-shaped bill ⓘ spoon-shaped bill ⓘ white plumage in most species ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| nestLocation |
reedbeds
ⓘ
trees near water ⓘ |
| notableSpecies |
Platalea ajaja
ⓘ
linked to:
Platalea
Platalea alba ⓘ
linked to:
Eurasian spoonbill
Platalea flavipes ⓘ
linked to:
Platalea
Platalea leucorodia ⓘ Platalea minor ⓘ
linked to:
Platalea
Platalea regia ⓘ
linked to:
Platalea
|
| order | Pelecaniformes ⓘ |
| parentTaxon | Threskiornithidae ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproduction | colonial nester ⓘ |
| subclass | Neornithes ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| typeSpecies |
Platalea leucorodia
ⓘ
linked to:
Eurasian spoonbill
|
| vernacularName | spoonbills ⓘ |
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: Platalea Description of subject: Platalea is a genus of large, long-legged wading birds known as spoonbills, characterized by their distinctive spatula-shaped bills and found in wetlands worldwide.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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