Meliphagidae
E182603
Meliphagidae is a family of birds commonly known as honeyeaters, primarily found in Australasia and characterized by their specialized brush-tipped tongues for feeding on nectar.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Meliphagidae canonical | 38 |
| Meliphaginae | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1584442 — 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: Meliphagidae Context triple: [Aves, hasSubgroup, Meliphagidae]
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Nectariniidae
Nectariniidae is a family of small, often brightly colored passerine birds commonly known as sunbirds and spiderhunters, found mainly in the Old World tropics and specialized for nectar feeding.
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B.
Trochilidae
Trochilidae is the biological family of hummingbirds, a diverse group of small, nectar-feeding birds known for their rapid wingbeats and ability to hover in place.
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C.
Dicruridae
Dicruridae is a family of passerine birds commonly known as drongos, found mainly in Africa, Asia, and Australasia and noted for their glossy plumage, long forked tails, and often aggressive, fearless behavior.
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D.
Emberizidae
Emberizidae is a family of small passerine birds commonly known as buntings and American sparrows, found across much of the world in open and semi-open habitats.
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E.
Sturnidae
Sturnidae is a family of small to medium-sized passerine birds, including starlings and mynas, known for their social behavior, vocal mimicry, and often iridescent plumage.
- 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: Meliphagidae Target entity description: Meliphagidae is a family of birds commonly known as honeyeaters, primarily found in Australasia and characterized by their specialized brush-tipped tongues for feeding on nectar.
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A.
Nectariniidae
Nectariniidae is a family of small, often brightly colored passerine birds commonly known as sunbirds and spiderhunters, found mainly in the Old World tropics and specialized for nectar feeding.
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B.
Trochilidae
Trochilidae is the biological family of hummingbirds, a diverse group of small, nectar-feeding birds known for their rapid wingbeats and ability to hover in place.
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C.
Dicruridae
Dicruridae is a family of passerine birds commonly known as drongos, found mainly in Africa, Asia, and Australasia and noted for their glossy plumage, long forked tails, and often aggressive, fearless behavior.
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D.
Emberizidae
Emberizidae is a family of small passerine birds commonly known as buntings and American sparrows, found across much of the world in open and semi-open habitats.
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E.
Sturnidae
Sturnidae is a family of small to medium-sized passerine birds, including starlings and mynas, known for their social behavior, vocal mimicry, and often iridescent plumage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (65)
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: Meliphagidae Description of subject: Meliphagidae is a family of birds commonly known as honeyeaters, primarily found in Australasia and characterized by their specialized brush-tipped tongues for feeding on nectar.
Referenced by (45)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Meliphagidae
linked to: Meliphagidae
linked to: Meliphagidae
subject linked to:
Noisy miner (Manorina melanocephala)
subject linked to:
New Holland honeyeater (Phylidonyris novaehollandiae)
subject linked to:
Red wattlebird (Anthochaera carunculata)
subject linked to:
Bell miner (Manorina melanophrys)
linked to: Meliphagidae