white-winged chough
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The white-winged chough is a social, crow-like Australian bird known for its glossy black plumage with distinctive white wing patches and cooperative group behavior.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| white-winged chough canonical | 2 |
| white winged chough | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7802010 — 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: white-winged chough Context triple: [Corcoracidae, hasCommonNameForSpecies, white-winged chough]
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A.
Sturnus
Sturnus is a genus of passerine birds in the starling family, historically including the European starling and several closely related species found across Eurasia and surrounding regions.
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B.
Caucasian snowcock
The Caucasian snowcock is a large, ground-dwelling mountain bird in the pheasant family, native to the high-altitude rocky slopes of the Caucasus region.
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C.
Lanius collurio
Lanius collurio, commonly known as the red-backed shrike, is a small migratory passerine bird recognized for its distinctive mask-like facial markings and habit of impaling prey on thorns.
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D.
Spinus tristis
Spinus tristis is a small North American songbird in the finch family, known for the male’s bright yellow breeding plumage and distinctive black cap.
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E.
Coccothraustes coccothraustes
Coccothraustes coccothraustes, commonly known as the hawfinch, is a robust, large-billed finch species found across Europe and parts of Asia, noted for its powerful beak adapted to cracking hard seeds.
- 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: white-winged chough Target entity description: The white-winged chough is a social, crow-like Australian bird known for its glossy black plumage with distinctive white wing patches and cooperative group behavior.
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A.
Sturnus
Sturnus is a genus of passerine birds in the starling family, historically including the European starling and several closely related species found across Eurasia and surrounding regions.
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B.
Caucasian snowcock
The Caucasian snowcock is a large, ground-dwelling mountain bird in the pheasant family, native to the high-altitude rocky slopes of the Caucasus region.
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C.
Lanius collurio
Lanius collurio, commonly known as the red-backed shrike, is a small migratory passerine bird recognized for its distinctive mask-like facial markings and habit of impaling prey on thorns.
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D.
Spinus tristis
Spinus tristis is a small North American songbird in the finch family, known for the male’s bright yellow breeding plumage and distinctive black cap.
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E.
Coccothraustes coccothraustes
Coccothraustes coccothraustes, commonly known as the hawfinch, is a robust, large-billed finch species found across Europe and parts of Asia, noted for its powerful beak adapted to cracking hard seeds.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bird
ⓘ
species ⓘ |
| binomialName | Corcorax melanorhamphos ⓘ |
| bodyLength | about 40–47 cm ⓘ |
| breedingSystem | cooperative ⓘ |
| class | Aves ⓘ |
| clutchSize | 3–5 eggs ⓘ |
| commonName | white-winged chough ⓘ |
| conservationStatus | Least Concern ⓘ |
| cooperativeBehavior | group chick-rearing ⓘ |
| cooperativeBehavior | group nest-building ⓘ |
| describedBy |
Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot
ⓘ
linked to:
Louis Pierre Vieillot
|
| describedInYear | 1817 ⓘ |
| diet |
invertebrates
ⓘ
seeds ⓘ tubers ⓘ |
| endemicTo | Australia ⓘ |
| family | Corcoracidae ⓘ |
| familyMemberOf | Corcoracidae ⓘ |
| foragingBehavior | ground foraging ⓘ |
| foundInRegion |
eastern Australia
ⓘ
south-eastern Australia ⓘ |
| genus |
Corcorax
ⓘ
linked to:
Corcorax melanorhamphos
|
| groupSize | 4–20 individuals ⓘ |
| hasBillColor | black bill ⓘ |
| hasBodyShape | crow-like ⓘ |
| hasColor |
black plumage
ⓘ
white wing patches ⓘ |
| hasEyeColor | red eye ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| movementPattern | mostly sedentary ⓘ |
| nativeTo | Australia ⓘ |
| nestSite | tree branch ⓘ |
| nestType | mud nest ⓘ |
| order | Passeriformes ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| plumageFeature | white primary feathers visible in flight ⓘ |
| resembles | crows ⓘ |
| socialBehavior |
cooperative breeding
ⓘ
highly social ⓘ |
| tailLength | long tail ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| typicalHabitat |
farmland with scattered trees
ⓘ
open forest ⓘ woodland ⓘ |
| vocalization | loud calls ⓘ |
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: white-winged chough Description of subject: The white-winged chough is a social, crow-like Australian bird known for its glossy black plumage with distinctive white wing patches and cooperative group behavior.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: white-winged chough