Ardea
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Ardea is a genus of large wading birds that includes several species of herons found in wetlands and aquatic habitats worldwide.
All labels observed (11)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ardea canonical | 3 |
| Ardea cinerea | 3 |
| Ardea herodias | 1 |
| Ardea humbloti | 1 |
| Ardea insignis | 1 |
| Ardea intermedia | 1 |
| Ardea melanocephala | 1 |
| Ardea modesta | 1 |
| Ardea pacifica | 1 |
| Ardea purpurea | 1 |
| Ardea sumatrana | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7576054 — 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: Ardea Context triple: [Ardeidae, containsGenus, Ardea]
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A.
Tadorna
Tadorna is a genus of large, colorful waterfowl commonly known as shelducks, found across Eurasia, Africa, and Australasia.
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B.
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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C.
Goliath heron
The Goliath heron is the world’s largest heron species, a towering wading bird of African wetlands known for its massive size, chestnut plumage, and solitary hunting behavior.
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D.
Platalea
Platalea is a genus of large, long-legged wading birds known as spoonbills, characterized by their distinctive spatula-shaped bills and found in wetlands worldwide.
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E.
sandhill crane
The sandhill crane is a tall, long-legged North American crane species known for its bugling calls, elaborate courtship dances, and large migratory flocks that gather in wetlands and refuges.
- 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: Ardea Target entity description: Ardea is a genus of large wading birds that includes several species of herons found in wetlands and aquatic habitats worldwide.
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A.
Tadorna
Tadorna is a genus of large, colorful waterfowl commonly known as shelducks, found across Eurasia, Africa, and Australasia.
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B.
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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C.
Goliath heron
The Goliath heron is the world’s largest heron species, a towering wading bird of African wetlands known for its massive size, chestnut plumage, and solitary hunting behavior.
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D.
Platalea
Platalea is a genus of large, long-legged wading birds known as spoonbills, characterized by their distinctive spatula-shaped bills and found in wetlands worldwide.
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E.
sandhill crane
The sandhill crane is a tall, long-legged North American crane species known for its bugling calls, elaborate courtship dances, and large migratory flocks that gather in wetlands and refuges.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
genus
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| class | Aves ⓘ |
| commonName | herons ⓘ |
| describedAs | genus of large wading birds ⓘ |
| distribution | worldwide ⓘ |
| domain |
Eukaryota
ⓘ
linked to:
Eukarya
|
| ecologicalRole | wading predator ⓘ |
| family | Ardeidae ⓘ |
| habitat |
coastal areas
ⓘ
lakeshores ⓘ marshes ⓘ riverbanks ⓘ wetlands ⓘ |
| includesSpecies |
Ardea alba
ⓘ
linked to:
Grey heron
Ardea brachyrhyncha ⓘ Ardea cinerea ⓘ
linked to:
Ardea
Ardea cocoi ⓘ Ardea goliath ⓘ
linked to:
Goliath heron
Ardea herodias ⓘ
linked to:
Ardea
Ardea humbloti ⓘ
linked to:
Ardea
Ardea insignis ⓘ
linked to:
Ardea
Ardea intermedia ⓘ
linked to:
Ardea
Ardea melanocephala ⓘ
linked to:
Ardea
Ardea modesta ⓘ
linked to:
Ardea
Ardea pacifica ⓘ
linked to:
Ardea
Ardea purpurea ⓘ
linked to:
Ardea
Ardea sumatrana ⓘ
linked to:
Ardea
|
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| locomotion |
flying
ⓘ
wading ⓘ |
| nestingSite |
reedbeds
ⓘ
trees near water ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
long legs
ⓘ
long neck ⓘ spear-like bill ⓘ |
| order | Pelecaniformes ⓘ |
| parentTaxon | Ardeidae ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproduction | oviparous ⓘ |
| socialBehavior | often colonial nester ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| typicalDiet |
amphibians
ⓘ
aquatic invertebrates ⓘ fish ⓘ reptiles ⓘ small mammals ⓘ |
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: Ardea Description of subject: Ardea is a genus of large wading birds that includes several species of herons found in wetlands and aquatic habitats worldwide.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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