swallow tanager
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The swallow tanager (Tersina viridis) is a small, brightly colored Neotropical songbird known for its vivid blue and green plumage and swallow-like silhouette in flight.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| swallow tanager canonical | 3 |
| swallow tanagers | 1 |
| swallow-tanager | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8914000 — 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: swallow tanager Context triple: [Tersina viridis, commonName, swallow tanager]
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Selasphorus rufus
Selasphorus rufus, commonly known as the rufous hummingbird, is a small, migratory North American hummingbird species noted for its brilliant orange plumage and remarkable long-distance flights.
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B.
Passerina cyanea
Passerina cyanea, commonly known as the indigo bunting, is a small North American songbird famed for the brilliant blue plumage of breeding males and its melodic song.
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Sunbird
Sunbird is the athletic mascot representing Fresno Pacific University’s sports teams.
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Sunbird
"Sunbird" is a fantasy short story by Neil Gaiman that blends myth, humor, and metafiction as members of an epicurean club pursue the legendary, possibly immortal bird of the title.
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Turdus lherminieri
Turdus lherminieri is a species of thrush in the genus Turdus, known as the Forest Thrush, native to the Caribbean and noted for its distinctive spotted plumage and melodious song.
- 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: swallow tanager Target entity description: The swallow tanager (Tersina viridis) is a small, brightly colored Neotropical songbird known for its vivid blue and green plumage and swallow-like silhouette in flight.
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A.
Selasphorus rufus
Selasphorus rufus, commonly known as the rufous hummingbird, is a small, migratory North American hummingbird species noted for its brilliant orange plumage and remarkable long-distance flights.
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B.
Passerina cyanea
Passerina cyanea, commonly known as the indigo bunting, is a small North American songbird famed for the brilliant blue plumage of breeding males and its melodic song.
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C.
Sunbird
Sunbird is the athletic mascot representing Fresno Pacific University’s sports teams.
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D.
Sunbird
"Sunbird" is a fantasy short story by Neil Gaiman that blends myth, humor, and metafiction as members of an epicurean club pursue the legendary, possibly immortal bird of the title.
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E.
Turdus lherminieri
Turdus lherminieri is a species of thrush in the genus Turdus, known as the Forest Thrush, native to the Caribbean and noted for its distinctive spotted plumage and melodious song.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: swallow tanager Description of subject: The swallow tanager (Tersina viridis) is a small, brightly colored Neotropical songbird known for its vivid blue and green plumage and swallow-like silhouette in flight.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.