Trochilidae
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Trochilidae is the biological family of hummingbirds, a diverse group of small, nectar-feeding birds known for their rapid wingbeats and ability to hover in place.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Trochilidae canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1078380 — 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: Trochilidae Context triple: [Juan Fernández firecrown, family, Trochilidae]
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A.
Thraupidae
Thraupidae is a large family of New World songbirds known as tanagers, which includes many colorful species and the famous Darwin’s finches of the Galápagos Islands.
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B.
Passerellidae
Passerellidae is a family of New World sparrows and related small seed-eating songbirds found primarily in the Americas.
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C.
Fringillidae
Fringillidae is a large family of small to medium-sized passerine birds commonly known as true finches, found worldwide and noted for their stout conical bills adapted for seed eating.
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D.
Turdidae
Turdidae is a large family of passerine birds commonly known as thrushes, which includes species such as robins, bluebirds, and nightingales.
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E.
Passeriformes
Passeriformes is the largest order of birds, commonly known as perching birds or songbirds, encompassing over half of all bird species worldwide.
- 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: Trochilidae Target entity description: Trochilidae is the biological family of hummingbirds, a diverse group of small, nectar-feeding birds known for their rapid wingbeats and ability to hover in place.
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A.
Thraupidae
Thraupidae is a large family of New World songbirds known as tanagers, which includes many colorful species and the famous Darwin’s finches of the Galápagos Islands.
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B.
Passerellidae
Passerellidae is a family of New World sparrows and related small seed-eating songbirds found primarily in the Americas.
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C.
Fringillidae
Fringillidae is a large family of small to medium-sized passerine birds commonly known as true finches, found worldwide and noted for their stout conical bills adapted for seed eating.
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D.
Turdidae
Turdidae is a large family of passerine birds commonly known as thrushes, which includes species such as robins, bluebirds, and nightingales.
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E.
Passeriformes
Passeriformes is the largest order of birds, commonly known as perching birds or songbirds, encompassing over half of all bird species worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bird family
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clade ⓘ taxon ⓘ |
| characteristic |
ability to hover in place
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capable of backward flight ⓘ capable of sustained hovering flight ⓘ nectar-feeding ⓘ rapid wingbeats ⓘ |
| class | Aves ⓘ |
| commonName | hummingbirds ⓘ |
| describedAs | family of small birds ⓘ |
| diet |
nectar
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small insects ⓘ spiders ⓘ |
| ecologicalNiche | nectarivorous birds of the Americas ⓘ |
| flightStyle |
hovering at flowers
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rapid darting movements ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Amazilia tzacatl
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Archilochus colubris ⓘ Calypte anna ⓘ Colibri coruscans ⓘ Mellisuga helenae ⓘ Phaethornis superciliosus ⓘ Selasphorus rufus ⓘ |
| includes |
bee hummingbirds
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coquette hummingbirds ⓘ hermit hummingbirds ⓘ mango hummingbirds ⓘ mountain-gem hummingbirds ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Americas
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Caribbean ⓘ Central America ⓘ North America ⓘ South America ⓘ |
| notableFor |
extremely high metabolic rate
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high heart rate ⓘ iridescent plumage ⓘ |
| order | Apodiformes ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| pollinationRole | important pollinators of flowering plants ⓘ |
| recognizedBy | ornithologists worldwide ⓘ |
| reproduction | lays eggs in small cup-shaped nests ⓘ |
| sexualDimorphism | often pronounced in plumage coloration ⓘ |
| smallestSpecies | Mellisuga helenae ⓘ |
| subdividedInto | multiple genera ⓘ |
| taxonRank | family ⓘ |
| wingBeatFrequency | very high relative to body size ⓘ |
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: Trochilidae Description of subject: Trochilidae is the biological family of hummingbirds, a diverse group of small, nectar-feeding birds known for their rapid wingbeats and ability to hover in place.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Juan Fernández firecrown
subject surface form:
Sephanoides fernandensis
subject surface form:
Sephanoides sephaniodes