Aramidae
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Aramidae is a small bird family best known for the limpkin, a wading bird of marshes and wetlands in the Americas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Aramidae canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7952731 — 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: Aramidae Context triple: [Gruiformes, hasMemberFamily, Aramidae]
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A.
Nestoridae
Nestoridae is a family of parrots native to New Zealand that includes highly intelligent and often ground-foraging species such as the kea and kaka.
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B.
Mimidae
Mimidae is a family of passerine birds known for their vocal mimicry, including mockingbirds, thrashers, and catbirds.
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C.
Gecarcoidea
Gecarcoidea is a genus of terrestrial crabs best known for including the Christmas Island red crab, famous for its spectacular mass migrations.
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D.
Irmastigmaceae
Irmastigmaceae is a family of fungi within the order Hypocreales, comprising specialized ascomycetous species often associated with plant or insect hosts.
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E.
Dulidae
Dulidae is a small bird family best known for the palmchat, a social, sparrow-sized songbird endemic to Hispaniola.
- 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: Aramidae Target entity description: Aramidae is a small bird family best known for the limpkin, a wading bird of marshes and wetlands in the Americas.
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A.
Nestoridae
Nestoridae is a family of parrots native to New Zealand that includes highly intelligent and often ground-foraging species such as the kea and kaka.
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B.
Mimidae
Mimidae is a family of passerine birds known for their vocal mimicry, including mockingbirds, thrashers, and catbirds.
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C.
Gecarcoidea
Gecarcoidea is a genus of terrestrial crabs best known for including the Christmas Island red crab, famous for its spectacular mass migrations.
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D.
Irmastigmaceae
Irmastigmaceae is a family of fungi within the order Hypocreales, comprising specialized ascomycetous species often associated with plant or insect hosts.
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E.
Dulidae
Dulidae is a small bird family best known for the palmchat, a social, sparrow-sized songbird endemic to Hispaniola.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bird family
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| activityPattern | mainly crepuscular ⓘ |
| billAdaptation |
bill adapted to extracting snails from shells
ⓘ
slightly decurved bill ⓘ |
| class | Aves ⓘ |
| commonName | limpkin family ⓘ |
| conservationStatus | family not globally threatened ⓘ |
| containsTaxon | Aramus guarauna ⓘ |
| diet |
apple snails
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aquatic invertebrates ⓘ mollusks ⓘ |
| distribution | Americas ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole | specialist predator of apple snails ⓘ |
| eggColor | spotted ⓘ |
| foragingBehavior |
probing in shallow water
ⓘ
wading ⓘ |
| geographicRange |
Caribbean
ⓘ
Central America ⓘ South America ⓘ southeastern United States ⓘ
linked to:
Southern United States
|
| habitat |
freshwater swamps
ⓘ
marshes ⓘ shallow lakeshores ⓘ wetlands ⓘ |
| hasGenus | Aramus ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| limbAdaptation | long legs for wading ⓘ |
| migratoryBehavior | partially migratory ⓘ |
| monotypic | true ⓘ |
| namedAfter | genus Aramus ⓘ |
| notableSpecies | limpkin ⓘ |
| order | Gruiformes ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| plumageColoration | brown with white streaks (in typical species) ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Gruidae
ⓘ
Rallidae ⓘ |
| reproduction | builds nests near water ⓘ |
| taxonRank | family ⓘ |
| vocalization | loud wailing calls ⓘ |
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: Aramidae Description of subject: Aramidae is a small bird family best known for the limpkin, a wading bird of marshes and wetlands in the Americas.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.