Cape cormorant
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The Cape cormorant is a medium-sized, dark-plumaged seabird native to the southwestern African coast, where it breeds in large coastal colonies and feeds mainly on small schooling fish.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cape cormorant canonical | 4 |
| Phalacrocorax capensis | 1 |
| Temminck’s cormorant | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4854600 — 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: Cape cormorant Context triple: [Dassen Island, fauna, Cape cormorant]
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A.
Cape Bird
Cape Bird is an ice-free volcanic headland on Ross Island in Antarctica, known for its large Adélie penguin colonies and scientific research stations.
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B.
Australasian gannet
The Australasian gannet is a large seabird native to the waters around Australia and New Zealand, known for its striking white plumage with black wingtips and dramatic high-speed plunge-diving for fish.
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C.
Tristan albatross
The Tristan albatross is a large, endangered seabird of the Southern Ocean, closely related to the wandering albatross and known for its long wingspan and remote island nesting sites.
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D.
Gannet
The Gannet was the Royal Navy's designation for a variant of the American Grumman F6F Hellcat carrier-based fighter aircraft used during World War II.
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E.
River Tern
The River Tern is a river in Shropshire, England, known as a tributary of the River Severn flowing through rural landscapes and historic market towns.
- 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: Cape cormorant Target entity description: The Cape cormorant is a medium-sized, dark-plumaged seabird native to the southwestern African coast, where it breeds in large coastal colonies and feeds mainly on small schooling fish.
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A.
Cape Bird
Cape Bird is an ice-free volcanic headland on Ross Island in Antarctica, known for its large Adélie penguin colonies and scientific research stations.
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B.
Australasian gannet
The Australasian gannet is a large seabird native to the waters around Australia and New Zealand, known for its striking white plumage with black wingtips and dramatic high-speed plunge-diving for fish.
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C.
Tristan albatross
The Tristan albatross is a large, endangered seabird of the Southern Ocean, closely related to the wandering albatross and known for its long wingspan and remote island nesting sites.
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D.
Gannet
The Gannet was the Royal Navy's designation for a variant of the American Grumman F6F Hellcat carrier-based fighter aircraft used during World War II.
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E.
River Tern
The River Tern is a river in Shropshire, England, known as a tributary of the River Severn flowing through rural landscapes and historic market towns.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bird
ⓘ
cormorant ⓘ seabird ⓘ |
| bodySize | medium-sized ⓘ |
| breedingBehavior | colonial breeder ⓘ |
| breedingColonyType | large coastal colonies ⓘ |
| breedingSite |
coastal islands
ⓘ
rocky headlands ⓘ |
| class | Aves ⓘ |
| commonName |
Cape cormorant
ⓘ
Cape shag ⓘ |
| conservationStatus | Endangered ⓘ |
| conservationStatusSystem |
IUCN Red List
ⓘ
linked to:
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
|
| describedBy | John Latham ⓘ |
| diet |
anchovies
ⓘ
sardines ⓘ small schooling fish ⓘ |
| eggColor | pale bluish ⓘ |
| family | Phalacrocoracidae ⓘ |
| foragingStrategy | pursuit diving ⓘ |
| foundIn |
Namibian coast
ⓘ
South African coast ⓘ |
| genus | Phalacrocorax ⓘ |
| geographicEndemism | southern Africa endemic ⓘ |
| habitat |
marine coastal waters
ⓘ
offshore islands ⓘ rocky shores ⓘ |
| hasBillColor | black bill ⓘ |
| hasFacialSkinColor | orange-yellow bare facial skin ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| migratoryBehavior | partially migratory ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Benguela Current region
ⓘ
linked to:
Benguela Current
southwestern African coast ⓘ |
| nestMaterial | guano-cemented vegetation ⓘ |
| nestType | ground nest ⓘ |
| order | Suliformes ⓘ |
| parentalCare | biparental ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| plumageColor | dark ⓘ |
| scientificName |
Phalacrocorax capensis
ⓘ
linked to:
Cape cormorant
|
| similarTo |
bank cormorant
ⓘ
great cormorant ⓘ |
| socialBehavior | gregarious ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| threat |
disease outbreaks
ⓘ
human disturbance at colonies ⓘ oil pollution ⓘ overfishing of prey ⓘ |
| yearDescribed | 1790s ⓘ |
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: Cape cormorant Description of subject: The Cape cormorant is a medium-sized, dark-plumaged seabird native to the southwestern African coast, where it breeds in large coastal colonies and feeds mainly on small schooling fish.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.