scarlet tanager
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The scarlet tanager is a striking North American songbird known for the male’s vivid red plumage contrasted with black wings and tail during the breeding season.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| scarlet tanager canonical | 2 |
| scarlet tanager (Piranga olivacea) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8913894 — 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: scarlet tanager Context triple: [Piranga olivacea, commonName, scarlet tanager]
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A.
summer tanager
The summer tanager (Piranga rubra) is a medium-sized North American songbird known for the adult male’s bright red plumage and its habit of catching bees and wasps in open woodlands.
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B.
blue-gray tanager
The blue-gray tanager is a small, brightly colored Neotropical songbird known for its pale blue-gray plumage and frequent presence in open woodlands, gardens, and urban areas from Mexico through much of South America.
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C.
swallow tanager
The swallow tanager (Tersina viridis) is a small, brightly colored Neotropical songbird known for its vivid blue and green plumage and swallow-like silhouette in flight.
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D.
Northern cardinal
The Northern cardinal is a striking North American songbird known for the male’s bright red plumage, distinctive crest, and clear whistling songs.
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E.
Cyanocitta
Cyanocitta is a genus of North American jays in the crow family, best known for including the blue jay and Steller’s jay.
- 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: scarlet tanager Target entity description: The scarlet tanager is a striking North American songbird known for the male’s vivid red plumage contrasted with black wings and tail during the breeding season.
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A.
summer tanager
The summer tanager (Piranga rubra) is a medium-sized North American songbird known for the adult male’s bright red plumage and its habit of catching bees and wasps in open woodlands.
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B.
blue-gray tanager
The blue-gray tanager is a small, brightly colored Neotropical songbird known for its pale blue-gray plumage and frequent presence in open woodlands, gardens, and urban areas from Mexico through much of South America.
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C.
swallow tanager
The swallow tanager (Tersina viridis) is a small, brightly colored Neotropical songbird known for its vivid blue and green plumage and swallow-like silhouette in flight.
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D.
Northern cardinal
The Northern cardinal is a striking North American songbird known for the male’s bright red plumage, distinctive crest, and clear whistling songs.
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E.
Cyanocitta
Cyanocitta is a genus of North American jays in the crow family, best known for including the blue jay and Steller’s jay.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bird
ⓘ
tanagers ⓘ |
| bodyLength | about 16–19 cm ⓘ |
| breedingSeason | late spring to summer ⓘ |
| breedsIn |
eastern North America
ⓘ
northeastern United States ⓘ
linked to:
Northeastern United States
southeastern Canada ⓘ |
| callType | sharp chip note ⓘ |
| class | Aves ⓘ |
| clutchSize | 3–5 eggs ⓘ |
| commonName |
Piranga écarlate
ⓘ
linked to:
Piranga flava
scarlet tanager ⓘ tángara escarlata ⓘ |
| conservationStatus | Least Concern ⓘ |
| conservationStatusSystem |
IUCN Red List
ⓘ
linked to:
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
|
| describedBy | Johann Friedrich Gmelin ⓘ |
| diet |
berries
ⓘ
fruits ⓘ insects ⓘ spiders ⓘ |
| eggColor | greenish blue with dark spots ⓘ |
| family | Cardinalidae ⓘ |
| femalePlumageColor | olive-yellow with darker wings ⓘ |
| foragingBehavior |
gleaning insects from foliage
ⓘ
hawking insects in flight ⓘ |
| foragingStratum | forest canopy ⓘ |
| genus | Piranga ⓘ |
| habitat |
deciduous forest
ⓘ
mature forest canopy ⓘ mixed forest ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| maleBreedingPlumageColor | scarlet red body with black wings and tail ⓘ |
| maleNonbreedingPlumageColor | yellowish-olive with dark wings ⓘ |
| mass | about 23–38 g ⓘ |
| migratoryBehavior | long-distance migrant ⓘ |
| nativeTo | North America ⓘ |
| nestsIn | tree branches ⓘ |
| nestType | cup nest ⓘ |
| order | Passeriformes ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| scientificName | Piranga olivacea ⓘ |
| sexualDimorphism | present ⓘ |
| songType | buzzy warbler-like song ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| wingspan | about 25–30 cm ⓘ |
| wintersIn |
Andean foothills
ⓘ
linked to:
Andes Mountains foothills
northwestern South America ⓘ |
| 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: scarlet tanager Description of subject: The scarlet tanager is a striking North American songbird known for the male’s vivid red plumage contrasted with black wings and tail during the breeding season.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: scarlet tanager