hooded crane
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The hooded crane is a medium-sized migratory crane species native to East Asia, known for its distinctive white head and neck contrasting with a dark gray body and for breeding in remote wetlands and steppes.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hooded crane | 1 |
| hooded crane canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10531049 — 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: hooded crane Context triple: [Daurian Steppe, faunaIncludes, hooded crane]
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A.
white-naped crane
The white-naped crane is a large, migratory East Asian crane species known for its distinctive white nape and reliance on wetlands and grasslands for breeding and wintering.
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B.
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.
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C.
Siberian crane
The Siberian crane is a critically endangered, long-distance migratory crane species known for its striking white plumage and reliance on East Asian wetlands for wintering.
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D.
wattled crane
The wattled crane is a large, wetland-dwelling African crane species distinguished by its long legs, gray-and-white plumage, and characteristic facial wattles.
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E.
Oriental white stork
The Oriental white stork is a large, endangered wading bird native to East Asia, known for its striking white plumage with black wing feathers and its reliance on wetland habitats for breeding and feeding.
- 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: hooded crane Target entity description: The hooded crane is a medium-sized migratory crane species native to East Asia, known for its distinctive white head and neck contrasting with a dark gray body and for breeding in remote wetlands and steppes.
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A.
white-naped crane
The white-naped crane is a large, migratory East Asian crane species known for its distinctive white nape and reliance on wetlands and grasslands for breeding and wintering.
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B.
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.
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C.
Siberian crane
The Siberian crane is a critically endangered, long-distance migratory crane species known for its striking white plumage and reliance on East Asian wetlands for wintering.
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D.
wattled crane
The wattled crane is a large, wetland-dwelling African crane species distinguished by its long legs, gray-and-white plumage, and characteristic facial wattles.
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E.
Oriental white stork
The Oriental white stork is a large, endangered wading bird native to East Asia, known for its striking white plumage with black wing feathers and its reliance on wetland habitats for breeding and feeding.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bird species
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crane ⓘ migratory bird ⓘ |
| averageHeight | about 95 cm ⓘ |
| averageWingspan | about 190 cm ⓘ |
| binomialName | Grus monacha ⓘ |
| bodySize | medium-sized crane ⓘ |
| breedingBehavior |
nests on the ground in wetlands
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typically lays two eggs ⓘ |
| breedingHabitat |
bogs
ⓘ
marshes ⓘ steppes ⓘ wetlands ⓘ |
| breedingRange |
Russia
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northeastern China ⓘ |
| class | Aves ⓘ |
| commonName | hooded crane ⓘ |
| conservationStatus | Vulnerable ⓘ |
| diet |
grains
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invertebrates ⓘ plant material ⓘ seeds ⓘ small vertebrates ⓘ |
| family | Gruidae ⓘ |
| genus | Grus ⓘ |
| hasLifeSpan | over 20 years in the wild ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| migratoryBehavior | long-distance migrant ⓘ |
| monitoredBy |
IUCN Red List
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linked to:
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
|
| nativeTo | East Asia ⓘ |
| nonBreedingRange |
China
ⓘ
Izumi Plain ⓘ Japan ⓘ Kyushu ⓘ South Korea ⓘ Taiwan ⓘ
linked to:
Taiwan, Province of China
|
| order | Gruiformes ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| plumageColor |
dark gray body
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white head ⓘ white neck ⓘ |
| protectedBy | international conservation agreements ⓘ |
| reproduction | forms long-term pair bonds ⓘ |
| socialBehavior |
forms large flocks on wintering grounds
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gregarious in winter ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| threat |
agricultural expansion
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disturbance on wintering grounds ⓘ habitat loss ⓘ wetland drainage ⓘ |
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: hooded crane Description of subject: The hooded crane is a medium-sized migratory crane species native to East Asia, known for its distinctive white head and neck contrasting with a dark gray body and for breeding in remote wetlands and steppes.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: hooded crane