Scissor-tailed flycatcher
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The Scissor-tailed Flycatcher is a striking North American songbird known for its extremely long, forked tail and graceful aerial insect-hunting displays.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Scissor-tailed flycatcher canonical | 4 |
| scissor-tailed flycatcher | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T455795 — 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: Scissor-tailed flycatcher Context triple: [Oklahoma, stateBird, Scissor-tailed flycatcher]
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A.
red-tailed hawk
The red-tailed hawk is a widespread North American bird of prey known for its reddish tail, piercing call, and adaptability to diverse habitats including open fields, deserts, and urban areas.
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B.
Brown thrasher
The Brown thrasher is a medium-sized North American songbird known for its rich, varied vocalizations and striking rufous-brown plumage with heavily streaked underparts.
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C.
Mountain bluebird
The Mountain bluebird is a small, bright sky-blue thrush native to western North America, often found in open habitats such as meadows and prairies.
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D.
Cactus wren
The cactus wren is a large, boldly marked wren native to the deserts of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, known for nesting in cacti and its distinctive harsh, chattering song.
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E.
Mimus
Mimus is a genus of birds in the mockingbird family, best known for species like the Northern Mockingbird that are renowned for their complex and varied vocal mimicry.
- 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: Scissor-tailed flycatcher Target entity description: The Scissor-tailed Flycatcher is a striking North American songbird known for its extremely long, forked tail and graceful aerial insect-hunting displays.
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A.
red-tailed hawk
The red-tailed hawk is a widespread North American bird of prey known for its reddish tail, piercing call, and adaptability to diverse habitats including open fields, deserts, and urban areas.
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B.
Brown thrasher
The Brown thrasher is a medium-sized North American songbird known for its rich, varied vocalizations and striking rufous-brown plumage with heavily streaked underparts.
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C.
Mountain bluebird
The Mountain bluebird is a small, bright sky-blue thrush native to western North America, often found in open habitats such as meadows and prairies.
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D.
Cactus wren
The cactus wren is a large, boldly marked wren native to the deserts of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, known for nesting in cacti and its distinctive harsh, chattering song.
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E.
Mimus
Mimus is a genus of birds in the mockingbird family, best known for species like the Northern Mockingbird that are renowned for their complex and varied vocal mimicry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bird species
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passerine ⓘ songbird ⓘ |
| aggressiveBehavior | defends nest vigorously ⓘ |
| assessedBy | IUCN ⓘ |
| averageTailLength | up to about 23 cm in males ⓘ |
| behavior |
often perches on fences and wires
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performs aerial courtship displays ⓘ |
| binomialName | Tyrannus forficatus ⓘ |
| breedingRange |
Kansas
ⓘ
Nebraska ⓘ Oklahoma ⓘ Texas ⓘ western Louisiana ⓘ |
| class | Aves ⓘ |
| clutchSize | 3–6 eggs ⓘ |
| commonName |
Scissor-tailed flycatcher
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Texas bird-of-paradise ⓘ |
| conservationStatus | Least Concern ⓘ |
| describedBy | Johann Friedrich Gmelin ⓘ |
| diet | insects ⓘ |
| eggColor | white to cream with dark markings ⓘ |
| family | Tyrannidae ⓘ |
| foragingStrategy |
aerial hawking
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perch-and-sally hunting ⓘ |
| genus | Tyrannus ⓘ |
| habitat |
grasslands
ⓘ
open country ⓘ pastures ⓘ roadsides with scattered trees ⓘ savannas ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| migratoryBehavior | long-distance migrant ⓘ |
| nativeRange |
Great Plains
ⓘ
South-central United States ⓘ
linked to:
South Central United States
|
| nestLocation |
shrubs
ⓘ
trees ⓘ |
| nestType | open cup nest ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
acrobatic flight displays
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extremely long forked tail ⓘ |
| order | Passeriformes ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| plumageColor |
black and white tail
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pale gray upperparts ⓘ salmon-pink flanks ⓘ salmon-pink underwing coverts ⓘ whitish head and neck ⓘ |
| sexualDimorphism | males have longer tails than females ⓘ |
| stateBirdOf | Oklahoma ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| threats |
habitat loss
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severe weather events ⓘ |
| vocalization | sharp calls and chatters ⓘ |
| winteringRange |
Central America
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Mexico ⓘ |
| yearDescribed | 1789 ⓘ |
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: Scissor-tailed flycatcher Description of subject: The Scissor-tailed Flycatcher is a striking North American songbird known for its extremely long, forked tail and graceful aerial insect-hunting displays.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.