Nelson’s sparrow
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Nelson’s sparrow is a small North American songbird of coastal and marsh habitats, known for its secretive behavior and distinctive buzzy song.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nelson’s sparrow canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13529801 — 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: Nelson’s sparrow Context triple: [Edward William Nelson, hasNamesake, Nelson’s sparrow]
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A.
Zapata sparrow
The Zapata sparrow is a rare, range-restricted songbird native to Cuba, known for its isolated populations in specialized wetland and coastal habitats.
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B.
Cassin’s Sparrow
Cassin’s Sparrow is a small, streaky brown songbird of arid grasslands in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, noted for its skylarking display flights and subtle plumage.
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C.
Savi’s warbler
Savi’s warbler is a small, secretive Old World warbler known for its insect-like reeling song and preference for dense reedbeds and marshy habitats across parts of Europe and western Asia.
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D.
Cassin’s Finch
Cassin’s Finch is a small North American songbird in the finch family, noted for the adult male’s rosy-red plumage and melodious warbling song.
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E.
Belding’s savannah sparrow
Belding’s savannah sparrow is a non-migratory, salt marsh–dwelling subspecies of savannah sparrow native to coastal southern California and northern Baja California, considered at risk due to habitat loss.
- 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: Nelson’s sparrow Target entity description: Nelson’s sparrow is a small North American songbird of coastal and marsh habitats, known for its secretive behavior and distinctive buzzy song.
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A.
Zapata sparrow
The Zapata sparrow is a rare, range-restricted songbird native to Cuba, known for its isolated populations in specialized wetland and coastal habitats.
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B.
Cassin’s Sparrow
Cassin’s Sparrow is a small, streaky brown songbird of arid grasslands in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, noted for its skylarking display flights and subtle plumage.
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C.
Savi’s warbler
Savi’s warbler is a small, secretive Old World warbler known for its insect-like reeling song and preference for dense reedbeds and marshy habitats across parts of Europe and western Asia.
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D.
Cassin’s Finch
Cassin’s Finch is a small North American songbird in the finch family, noted for the adult male’s rosy-red plumage and melodious warbling song.
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E.
Belding’s savannah sparrow
Belding’s savannah sparrow is a non-migratory, salt marsh–dwelling subspecies of savannah sparrow native to coastal southern California and northern Baja California, considered at risk due to habitat loss.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
animal
ⓘ
bird ⓘ songbird ⓘ vertebrate ⓘ |
| behavior | secretive ⓘ |
| breedsIn |
Atlantic coast saltmarshes
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Canadian Prairies NERFINISHED ⓘ north-central United States ⓘ northern North America ⓘ |
| class | Aves NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commonName |
Nelson sparrow
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Nelson’s sparrow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conservationStatus | Least Concern ⓘ |
| conservationStatusSystem | IUCN Red List NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedBy | Robert Ridgway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedInYear | 1885 ⓘ |
| diet |
insects
ⓘ
other invertebrates ⓘ seeds ⓘ |
| family | Passerellidae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foragingStrategy |
ground foraging
ⓘ
low-vegetation foraging ⓘ |
| genus | Ammospiza NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| habitat |
brackish marsh
ⓘ
coastal wetlands ⓘ freshwater marsh ⓘ salt marsh ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| migratory | true ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Edward William Nelson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeTo | North America ⓘ |
| nestingSite | marsh vegetation ⓘ |
| nestType | cup nest ⓘ |
| order | Passeriformes ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| plumage |
gray nape
ⓘ
orange-buff face ⓘ streaked ⓘ |
| previouslyClassifiedAs | subspecies of sharp-tailed sparrow ⓘ |
| scientificName | Ammospiza nelsoni NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| similarTo | Saltmarsh sparrow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| size | small ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| threat |
habitat loss
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marsh drainage ⓘ sea-level rise ⓘ |
| vocalization | buzzy song ⓘ |
| wintersIn |
Atlantic coast of the United States
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gulf Coast of the United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Nelson’s sparrow Description of subject: Nelson’s sparrow is a small North American songbird of coastal and marsh habitats, known for its secretive behavior and distinctive buzzy song.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.