Steller's eider
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Steller's eider is a small, Arctic sea duck known for its striking plumage and preference for coastal tundra and marine habitats in northern regions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Steller's eider canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13118671 — 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: Steller's eider Context triple: [Varanger Peninsula, hasBirdSpecies, Steller's eider]
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A.
spectacled eider
The spectacled eider is a sea duck of Arctic coastal regions, recognizable by its distinctive “spectacled” eye markings and reliance on remote marine habitats for breeding and wintering.
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B.
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.
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C.
Aleutian cackling goose
The Aleutian cackling goose is a small, migratory North American goose species once endangered but now recovered, known for its distinctive white neck ring and breeding on the Aleutian Islands.
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D.
Calidris canutus
Calidris canutus is a medium-sized migratory shorebird, known as the red knot, famous for its long-distance Arctic-to-temperate migrations and reliance on coastal stopover sites rich in shellfish.
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E.
Calidris mauri
Calidris mauri is a small migratory shorebird of the sandpiper family that breeds in Arctic North America and winters along the coasts of the Americas.
- 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: Steller's eider Target entity description: Steller's eider is a small, Arctic sea duck known for its striking plumage and preference for coastal tundra and marine habitats in northern regions.
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A.
spectacled eider
The spectacled eider is a sea duck of Arctic coastal regions, recognizable by its distinctive “spectacled” eye markings and reliance on remote marine habitats for breeding and wintering.
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B.
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.
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C.
Aleutian cackling goose
The Aleutian cackling goose is a small, migratory North American goose species once endangered but now recovered, known for its distinctive white neck ring and breeding on the Aleutian Islands.
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D.
Calidris canutus
Calidris canutus is a medium-sized migratory shorebird, known as the red knot, famous for its long-distance Arctic-to-temperate migrations and reliance on coastal stopover sites rich in shellfish.
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E.
Calidris mauri
Calidris mauri is a small migratory shorebird of the sandpiper family that breeds in Arctic North America and winters along the coasts of the Americas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
animal
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bird ⓘ duck ⓘ sea duck ⓘ |
| binomialName | Polysticta stelleri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bodySize | small sea duck ⓘ |
| breedingHabits | nests on Arctic tundra near freshwater ponds ⓘ |
| breedingRange |
Arctic coastal tundra
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northern Alaska NERFINISHED ⓘ northern Russia ⓘ |
| class | Aves ⓘ |
| clutchSize | typically 5–9 eggs ⓘ |
| commonName | Steller's eider NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conservationConcern | declining populations in parts of range ⓘ |
| diet |
aquatic invertebrates
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crustaceans ⓘ insect larvae ⓘ mollusks ⓘ plant material ⓘ |
| distribution |
circumpolar Arctic
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coasts of the Barents Sea ⓘ coasts of the Bering Sea ⓘ |
| family | Anatidae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foragingStrategy |
dives for food
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up-ends in shallow water ⓘ |
| genus | Polysticta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| habitat |
coastal tundra
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lagoon and estuary margins ⓘ shallow marine waters ⓘ |
| hasSexualDimorphism | true ⓘ |
| IUCNStatus | Vulnerable ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| legalProtection | protected in parts of its range under national and international law ⓘ |
| migration | migratory ⓘ |
| migrationPattern | migrates between Arctic breeding grounds and subarctic wintering areas ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Georg Wilhelm Steller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nonBreedingRange |
Barents Sea coasts
NERFINISHED
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Bering Sea coasts ⓘ ice-free Arctic coastal waters ⓘ |
| order | Anseriformes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| plumageDescription |
female is mottled brown
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male has striking black, white, chestnut, and green plumage ⓘ |
| relativeSize | smaller than common eider ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| threats |
climate change
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disturbance in coastal areas ⓘ habitat loss ⓘ oil pollution ⓘ |
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: Steller's eider Description of subject: Steller's eider is a small, Arctic sea duck known for its striking plumage and preference for coastal tundra and marine habitats in northern regions.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Somateria fischeri