Sterna
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Sterna is a genus of seabirds in the tern family that includes species such as the Arctic tern, known for their graceful flight and long-distance migrations.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sterna canonical | 4 |
| Sterna hirundo | 2 |
| Sterna vittata | 2 |
| Sterna acuticauda | 1 |
| Sterna paradisaea | 1 |
| Sterna repressa | 1 |
| Sterna sumatrana | 1 |
| Thalasseus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7189546 — 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: Sterna Context triple: [Arctic tern, genus, Sterna]
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A.
Albatross
"Albatross" is a 1968 instrumental blues-rock piece by Fleetwood Mac, composed by Peter Green and renowned for its dreamy, atmospheric guitar sound.
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B.
Larus
Larus is a genus of medium to large gulls commonly found in coastal and inland waters across much of the world.
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C.
Gannet
The Gannet was the Royal Navy's designation for a variant of the American Grumman F6F Hellcat carrier-based fighter aircraft used during World War II.
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D.
Tadorna
Tadorna is a genus of large, colorful waterfowl commonly known as shelducks, found across Eurasia, Africa, and Australasia.
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E.
Phalaropus
Phalaropus is a small genus of specialized shorebirds known as phalaropes, which exhibit unusual reversed sexual dimorphism and often spin on the water to stir up food.
- 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: Sterna Target entity description: Sterna is a genus of seabirds in the tern family that includes species such as the Arctic tern, known for their graceful flight and long-distance migrations.
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A.
Albatross
"Albatross" is a 1968 instrumental blues-rock piece by Fleetwood Mac, composed by Peter Green and renowned for its dreamy, atmospheric guitar sound.
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B.
Larus
Larus is a genus of medium to large gulls commonly found in coastal and inland waters across much of the world.
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C.
Gannet
The Gannet was the Royal Navy's designation for a variant of the American Grumman F6F Hellcat carrier-based fighter aircraft used during World War II.
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D.
Tadorna
Tadorna is a genus of large, colorful waterfowl commonly known as shelducks, found across Eurasia, Africa, and Australasia.
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E.
Phalaropus
Phalaropus is a small genus of specialized shorebirds known as phalaropes, which exhibit unusual reversed sexual dimorphism and often spin on the water to stir up food.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
genus
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| billShape | slender ⓘ |
| bodyForm | slender seabird ⓘ |
| class | Aves ⓘ |
| commonName | typical terns ⓘ |
| diet |
fish
ⓘ
marine invertebrates ⓘ |
| distribution | worldwide ⓘ |
| eggColor | speckled ⓘ |
| family | Laridae ⓘ |
| flightStyle |
agile
ⓘ
buoyant ⓘ |
| foragingMethod |
plunge-diving
ⓘ
surface-dipping ⓘ |
| habitat |
coastal wetlands
ⓘ
islands ⓘ marine coasts ⓘ |
| hasSpecies |
Sterna acuticauda
ⓘ
linked to:
Sterna
Sterna aurantia ⓘ Sterna balaenarum ⓘ
linked to:
Antarctic tern
Sterna dougallii ⓘ
linked to:
Antarctic tern
Sterna forsteri ⓘ
linked to:
Antarctic tern
Sterna hirundo ⓘ Sterna paradisaea ⓘ
linked to:
Sterna
Sterna repressa ⓘ
linked to:
Sterna
Sterna striata ⓘ
linked to:
Sternula nereis
Sterna sumatrana ⓘ
linked to:
Sterna
Sterna trudeaui ⓘ Sterna virgata ⓘ Sterna vittata ⓘ
linked to:
Sterna
|
| includes |
Arctic tern
ⓘ
common tern ⓘ roseate tern ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| nestingSite | ground ⓘ |
| notableFor |
graceful flight
ⓘ
long-distance migration ⓘ |
| order | Charadriiformes ⓘ |
| parentTaxon |
Laridae
ⓘ
Sterninae ⓘ
linked to:
Larinae
|
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproduction | colonial breeder ⓘ |
| subfamily | Sterninae ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| typeSpecies |
Sterna hirundo
ⓘ
linked to:
Sterna
|
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: Sterna Description of subject: Sterna is a genus of seabirds in the tern family that includes species such as the Arctic tern, known for their graceful flight and long-distance migrations.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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linked to: Sterna