Galbulidae
E731306
Galbulidae is a family of tropical birds known as jacamars, characterized by their slender bodies, long bills, and iridescent plumage, found primarily in Central and South American forests.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Galbulidae canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8406199 — 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: Galbulidae Context triple: [Piciformes, containsFamily, Galbulidae]
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A.
Belidae
Belidae is a family of primitive weevils within the superfamily Curculionoidea, known for their elongated snouts and association with specific host plants.
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B.
Regulidae
Regulidae is a family of tiny, insectivorous passerine birds known as kinglets, found mainly in the Northern Hemisphere’s forests.
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C.
Sebastidae
Sebastidae is a family of marine ray-finned fishes commonly known as rockfishes, many of which are long-lived, bottom-dwelling species important in commercial and recreational fisheries.
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D.
Dulidae
Dulidae is a small bird family best known for the palmchat, a social, sparrow-sized songbird endemic to Hispaniola.
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E.
Odobenidae
Odobenidae is the biological family that comprises walruses, large marine mammals known for their long tusks and Arctic habitat.
- 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: Galbulidae Target entity description: Galbulidae is a family of tropical birds known as jacamars, characterized by their slender bodies, long bills, and iridescent plumage, found primarily in Central and South American forests.
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A.
Belidae
Belidae is a family of primitive weevils within the superfamily Curculionoidea, known for their elongated snouts and association with specific host plants.
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B.
Regulidae
Regulidae is a family of tiny, insectivorous passerine birds known as kinglets, found mainly in the Northern Hemisphere’s forests.
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C.
Sebastidae
Sebastidae is a family of marine ray-finned fishes commonly known as rockfishes, many of which are long-lived, bottom-dwelling species important in commercial and recreational fisheries.
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D.
Dulidae
Dulidae is a small bird family best known for the palmchat, a social, sparrow-sized songbird endemic to Hispaniola.
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E.
Odobenidae
Odobenidae is the biological family that comprises walruses, large marine mammals known for their long tusks and Arctic habitat.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Galbulidae Description of subject: Galbulidae is a family of tropical birds known as jacamars, characterized by their slender bodies, long bills, and iridescent plumage, found primarily in Central and South American forests.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.