Antarctic skua
E1040734
The Antarctic skua is a large, robust seabird of the Southern Ocean known for its aggressive behavior and opportunistic feeding, including scavenging and preying on other seabirds.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Antarctic skua canonical | 1 |
| brown skua | 1 |
| southern great skua | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13434338 — 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: Antarctic skua Context triple: [Cape Hallett, hasWildlife, Antarctic skua]
-
A.
arctic skua
The Arctic skua is a medium-sized seabird and agile aerial pirate known for harassing other birds to steal their food, breeding in northern coastal and tundra regions.
-
B.
Antarctic tern
The Antarctic tern is a small, migratory seabird of polar regions, known for its graceful flight, long-distance movements, and nesting on rocky Antarctic and sub-Antarctic coasts and islands.
-
C.
Bonin petrel
The Bonin petrel is a small, nocturnal seabird of the Pacific Ocean known for nesting in burrows on remote islands and feeding far offshore on squid and small fish.
-
D.
Gould’s petrel
Gould’s petrel is a small, endangered seabird species of the gadfly petrel group, known for its long-distance oceanic flights and restricted breeding colonies off eastern Australia.
-
E.
southern giant petrel
The southern giant petrel is a large, robust seabird of subantarctic and Antarctic waters, known for its powerful flight, scavenging habits, and prominent tube-shaped nostrils.
- 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: Antarctic skua Target entity description: The Antarctic skua is a large, robust seabird of the Southern Ocean known for its aggressive behavior and opportunistic feeding, including scavenging and preying on other seabirds.
-
A.
arctic skua
The Arctic skua is a medium-sized seabird and agile aerial pirate known for harassing other birds to steal their food, breeding in northern coastal and tundra regions.
-
B.
Antarctic tern
The Antarctic tern is a small, migratory seabird of polar regions, known for its graceful flight, long-distance movements, and nesting on rocky Antarctic and sub-Antarctic coasts and islands.
-
C.
Bonin petrel
The Bonin petrel is a small, nocturnal seabird of the Pacific Ocean known for nesting in burrows on remote islands and feeding far offshore on squid and small fish.
-
D.
Gould’s petrel
Gould’s petrel is a small, endangered seabird species of the gadfly petrel group, known for its long-distance oceanic flights and restricted breeding colonies off eastern Australia.
-
E.
southern giant petrel
The southern giant petrel is a large, robust seabird of subantarctic and Antarctic waters, known for its powerful flight, scavenging habits, and prominent tube-shaped nostrils.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
animal
ⓘ
bird ⓘ seabird ⓘ vertebrate ⓘ |
| associatedWith | penguin colonies ⓘ |
| binomialAuthority | Lesson, 1831 ⓘ |
| bodyMass | approximately 1.2 kilograms ⓘ |
| breedsIn |
Antarctic Peninsula
ⓘ
subantarctic islands ⓘ |
| class | Aves ⓘ |
| clutchSize | 1–2 eggs ⓘ |
| commonName |
Antarctic skua
ⓘ
brown skua ⓘ
linked to:
Antarctic skua
southern great skua ⓘ
linked to:
Antarctic skua
|
| conservationStatus | Least Concern ⓘ |
| conservationStatusSystem |
IUCN Red List
ⓘ
linked to:
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
|
| diet |
carrion
ⓘ
chicks of seabirds ⓘ eggs of seabirds ⓘ fish ⓘ krill ⓘ small birds ⓘ |
| family | Stercorariidae ⓘ |
| feedingBehavior |
opportunistic
ⓘ
predatory ⓘ scavenging ⓘ |
| genus | Stercorarius ⓘ |
| habitat |
coastal waters
ⓘ
ice-free coastal areas ⓘ offshore marine waters ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| lifespan | over 20 years in the wild ⓘ |
| migratesTo |
South Atlantic Ocean
ⓘ
linked to:
South Atlantic
South Indian Ocean ⓘ South Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| migration | partially migratory ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Antarctic region
ⓘ
Southern Ocean ⓘ |
| notableBehavior |
aggressive toward other seabirds
ⓘ
kleptoparasitism ⓘ |
| order | Charadriiformes ⓘ |
| parentalCare | both parents incubate eggs ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| plumage |
mostly brown
ⓘ
pale patches on wings ⓘ |
| preysOn |
penguin chicks
ⓘ
penguin eggs ⓘ |
| reproduction | nests on ground ⓘ |
| scientificName |
Stercorarius antarcticus
ⓘ
linked to:
Stercorarius
|
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| wingspan | approximately 1.3 meters ⓘ |
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: Antarctic skua Description of subject: The Antarctic skua is a large, robust seabird of the Southern Ocean known for its aggressive behavior and opportunistic feeding, including scavenging and preying on other seabirds.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Antarctic skua
linked to: Antarctic skua