Madagascar teal
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The Madagascar teal is a small, brownish dabbling duck endemic to Madagascar, known for its restricted range and conservation concern.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Madagascar teal canonical | 3 |
| Bernier’s teal | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11295230 — 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: Madagascar teal Context triple: [Madagascar! exhibit, featuresAnimal, Madagascar teal]
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A.
Laysan duck
The Laysan duck is a small, critically endangered dabbling duck native to the Hawaiian Islands, known for its restricted range, nocturnal foraging, and conservation-dependent survival.
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B.
Makira moorhen
The Makira moorhen is a rare, possibly extinct rail species endemic to the island of Makira in the Solomon Islands, known only from a few historical records and local reports.
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C.
Seychelles fody
The Seychelles fody is a small, endemic songbird of the Seychelles islands known for the male’s bright yellow plumage and its adaptation to a variety of woodland and scrub habitats.
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D.
Australasian swamphen
The Australasian swamphen is a large, brightly colored rail native to wetlands in Australia, New Zealand, and surrounding regions, known for its vivid blue-purple plumage, red bill and frontal shield, and loud, conspicuous behavior.
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E.
Cape Bird
Cape Bird is an ice-free volcanic headland on Ross Island in Antarctica, known for its large Adélie penguin colonies and scientific research stations.
- 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: Madagascar teal Target entity description: The Madagascar teal is a small, brownish dabbling duck endemic to Madagascar, known for its restricted range and conservation concern.
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A.
Laysan duck
The Laysan duck is a small, critically endangered dabbling duck native to the Hawaiian Islands, known for its restricted range, nocturnal foraging, and conservation-dependent survival.
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B.
Makira moorhen
The Makira moorhen is a rare, possibly extinct rail species endemic to the island of Makira in the Solomon Islands, known only from a few historical records and local reports.
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C.
Seychelles fody
The Seychelles fody is a small, endemic songbird of the Seychelles islands known for the male’s bright yellow plumage and its adaptation to a variety of woodland and scrub habitats.
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D.
Australasian swamphen
The Australasian swamphen is a large, brightly colored rail native to wetlands in Australia, New Zealand, and surrounding regions, known for its vivid blue-purple plumage, red bill and frontal shield, and loud, conspicuous behavior.
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E.
Cape Bird
Cape Bird is an ice-free volcanic headland on Ross Island in Antarctica, known for its large Adélie penguin colonies and scientific research stations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bird
ⓘ
dabbling duck ⓘ duck ⓘ species ⓘ |
| binomialName | Anas bernieri ⓘ |
| bodySize | small ⓘ |
| breedingBehavior | ground nester ⓘ |
| breedingSite | wetland vegetation ⓘ |
| class | Aves ⓘ |
| commonName |
Bernier’s teal
ⓘ
linked to:
Madagascar teal
Madagascar teal ⓘ |
| conservationConcern | high ⓘ |
| conservationStatus | Endangered ⓘ |
| conservationStatusSystem |
IUCN Red List
ⓘ
linked to:
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
|
| describedBy | Hartlaub ⓘ |
| describedInYear | 1860 ⓘ |
| diet |
aquatic invertebrates
ⓘ
plant material ⓘ seeds ⓘ |
| distributionCharacteristic | restricted range ⓘ |
| endemicTo | Madagascar ⓘ |
| family | Anatidae ⓘ |
| feedingBehavior | dabbling ⓘ |
| genus | Anas ⓘ |
| habitat |
brackish lagoons
ⓘ
mangrove wetlands ⓘ marshes ⓘ shallow coastal wetlands ⓘ slow-flowing rivers ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Alphonse Bernier ⓘ |
| nativeRange |
northwestern Madagascar
ⓘ
western Madagascar ⓘ |
| order | Anseriformes ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| plumageColor | brownish ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| threat |
disturbance
ⓘ
habitat degradation ⓘ habitat loss ⓘ hunting ⓘ |
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: Madagascar teal Description of subject: The Madagascar teal is a small, brownish dabbling duck endemic to Madagascar, known for its restricted range and conservation concern.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Madagascar teal