marbled godwit
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The marbled godwit is a large, long-legged North American shorebird known for its long slightly upturned bill, mottled brown plumage, and use of coastal wetlands and mudflats during migration and winter.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| marbled godwit canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4657586 — 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: marbled godwit Context triple: [Elkhorn Slough, hasSpecies, marbled godwit]
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A.
Kentish plover
The Kentish plover is a small, pale shorebird of sandy coasts and salt flats, known for its quick, darting movements and widespread breeding across Eurasia and North Africa.
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B.
red-necked phalarope
The red-necked phalarope is a small, migratory wader known for its distinctive reddish neck in breeding plumage and unusual behavior of females being more brightly colored and males incubating the eggs.
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C.
western sandpiper
The western sandpiper is a small migratory shorebird of North America that breeds in Arctic tundra and undertakes long-distance journeys along the Pacific coast to its wintering grounds.
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D.
Branta ruficollis
Branta ruficollis, commonly known as the red-breasted goose, is a strikingly colored, small Arctic-breeding goose species native to Siberia and wintering mainly around the Black Sea.
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E.
red knot
The red knot is a medium-sized migratory shorebird known for its long-distance Arctic-to-coastline migrations and reliance on coastal stopover sites rich in invertebrate prey.
- 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: marbled godwit Target entity description: The marbled godwit is a large, long-legged North American shorebird known for its long slightly upturned bill, mottled brown plumage, and use of coastal wetlands and mudflats during migration and winter.
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A.
Kentish plover
The Kentish plover is a small, pale shorebird of sandy coasts and salt flats, known for its quick, darting movements and widespread breeding across Eurasia and North Africa.
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B.
red-necked phalarope
The red-necked phalarope is a small, migratory wader known for its distinctive reddish neck in breeding plumage and unusual behavior of females being more brightly colored and males incubating the eggs.
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C.
western sandpiper
The western sandpiper is a small migratory shorebird of North America that breeds in Arctic tundra and undertakes long-distance journeys along the Pacific coast to its wintering grounds.
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D.
Branta ruficollis
Branta ruficollis, commonly known as the red-breasted goose, is a strikingly colored, small Arctic-breeding goose species native to Siberia and wintering mainly around the Black Sea.
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E.
red knot
The red knot is a medium-sized migratory shorebird known for its long-distance Arctic-to-coastline migrations and reliance on coastal stopover sites rich in invertebrate prey.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bird species
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shorebird ⓘ wader ⓘ |
| billShape | long slightly upturned bill ⓘ |
| binomialName | Limosa fedoa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bodySize | large for a shorebird ⓘ |
| breedingHabitat | native prairie grasslands with wetlands ⓘ |
| breedsIn |
Canadian Prairies
NERFINISHED
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U.S. northern Great Plains ⓘ northern Great Plains ⓘ |
| class | Aves NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| clutchSize | usually four eggs ⓘ |
| commonName | marbled godwit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conservationStatus | Least Concern ⓘ |
| conservationStatusSystem | IUCN Red List NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| diet |
crustaceans
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insects ⓘ invertebrates ⓘ marine worms ⓘ |
| family | Scolopacidae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flightPattern | strong direct flight with steady wingbeats ⓘ |
| foragingBehavior | probes in soft mud with bill ⓘ |
| genus | Limosa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| habitat |
coastal mudflats
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estuaries ⓘ prairie wetlands ⓘ salt marshes ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| legColor | long bluish-gray legs ⓘ |
| migratoryBehavior | long-distance migrant ⓘ |
| nativeTo | North America ⓘ |
| nestType | ground nest ⓘ |
| order | Charadriiformes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| plumage |
cinnamon-buff underparts
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mottled brown upperparts ⓘ |
| range |
North American coasts in nonbreeding season
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interior North America in breeding season ⓘ |
| sexualDimorphism | females larger and longer-billed than males ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| threat |
coastal habitat disturbance
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degradation of breeding wetlands ⓘ wetland habitat loss ⓘ |
| vocalization | loud yelping calls ⓘ |
| wintersIn |
Atlantic coast of the United States
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Central America NERFINISHED ⓘ Gulf of Mexico coast NERFINISHED ⓘ Pacific coast of the United States ⓘ |
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: marbled godwit Description of subject: The marbled godwit is a large, long-legged North American shorebird known for its long slightly upturned bill, mottled brown plumage, and use of coastal wetlands and mudflats during migration and winter.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.