Spiloptila
E673758
Spiloptila is a small genus of Old World warblers, comprising insectivorous passerine birds found in arid and semi-arid habitats.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Spiloptila canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7572435 — 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: Spiloptila Context triple: [Sylviidae, contains, Spiloptila]
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A.
Optila
Optila was a Hun bodyguard who, along with fellow conspirators, carried out the assassination of Western Roman Emperor Valentinian III in 455 AD.
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B.
Tilo
Tilo is a central, enigmatic figure in Arundhati Roy’s novel "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness," whose complex personal history and relationships anchor much of the book’s emotional and political narrative.
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C.
Liotta
Liotta is an Italian-origin surname most famously associated with American actor Ray Liotta, known for his roles in films like "Goodfellas."
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D.
Lisnaskea
Lisnaskea is a small market town in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, known for serving as a local commercial and community hub for the surrounding rural area.
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E.
Totila
Totila was a 6th-century king of the Ostrogoths best known for his dynamic military leadership and central role in the later stages of the Gothic War against the Byzantine Empire.
- 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: Spiloptila Target entity description: Spiloptila is a small genus of Old World warblers, comprising insectivorous passerine birds found in arid and semi-arid habitats.
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A.
Optila
Optila was a Hun bodyguard who, along with fellow conspirators, carried out the assassination of Western Roman Emperor Valentinian III in 455 AD.
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B.
Tilo
Tilo is a central, enigmatic figure in Arundhati Roy’s novel "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness," whose complex personal history and relationships anchor much of the book’s emotional and political narrative.
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C.
Liotta
Liotta is an Italian-origin surname most famously associated with American actor Ray Liotta, known for his roles in films like "Goodfellas."
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D.
Lisnaskea
Lisnaskea is a small market town in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, known for serving as a local commercial and community hub for the surrounding rural area.
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E.
Totila
Totila was a 6th-century king of the Ostrogoths best known for his dynamic military leadership and central role in the later stages of the Gothic War against the Byzantine Empire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bird genus
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| class | Aves ⓘ |
| commonName | spotted palm thrushes ⓘ |
| containsTaxon |
Spiloptila clamans
ⓘ
Spiloptila frontalis ⓘ |
| describedAs | small genus of Old World warblers ⓘ |
| diet | insectivorous ⓘ |
| ecologicalNiche | insectivorous passerine birds ⓘ |
| family | Cisticolidae ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | described in 1851 ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution | Old World ⓘ |
| habitat |
arid habitats
ⓘ
semi-arid habitats ⓘ |
| hasFeathers | true ⓘ |
| hasVertebralColumn | true ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| languageOfScientificName | Latin ⓘ |
| lifeForm | passerine ⓘ |
| namedBy | Charles Lucien Bonaparte ⓘ |
| order | Passeriformes ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproduction | oviparous ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| typeSpecies | Spiloptila clamans ⓘ |
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: Spiloptila Description of subject: Spiloptila is a small genus of Old World warblers, comprising insectivorous passerine birds found in arid and semi-arid habitats.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.