greater adjutant stork
E172993
The greater adjutant stork is a large, endangered scavenging stork native to South and Southeast Asia, known for its massive bill, bare head and neck, and reliance on wetlands and garbage dumps for feeding.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| greater adjutant | 1 |
| greater adjutant stork canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1517513 — 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: greater adjutant stork Context triple: [Orang National Park, hasBirdSpecies, greater adjutant stork]
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A.
Secretary bird
The secretary bird is a large, long-legged bird of prey native to sub-Saharan Africa, known for its distinctive eagle-like body, crane-like legs, and habit of hunting snakes on foot.
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B.
Cape vulture
The Cape vulture is a large, pale Old World vulture native to southern Africa, known for its cliff-nesting colonies and its status as a threatened scavenger species.
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C.
greater flamingo
The greater flamingo is the largest and most widespread flamingo species, known for its pale pink plumage, long legs, and extensive breeding colonies in wetlands across Africa, southern Europe, and parts of Asia.
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D.
Andean condor
The Andean condor is a massive South American vulture and national symbol of several Andean countries, renowned for its impressive wingspan and soaring flight over high mountain ranges.
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E.
Aquila adalberti
Aquila adalberti, commonly known as the Spanish imperial eagle, is a large, endangered raptor endemic to the Iberian Peninsula and recognized for its dark plumage and pale shoulder patches.
- 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: greater adjutant stork Target entity description: The greater adjutant stork is a large, endangered scavenging stork native to South and Southeast Asia, known for its massive bill, bare head and neck, and reliance on wetlands and garbage dumps for feeding.
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A.
Secretary bird
The secretary bird is a large, long-legged bird of prey native to sub-Saharan Africa, known for its distinctive eagle-like body, crane-like legs, and habit of hunting snakes on foot.
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B.
Cape vulture
The Cape vulture is a large, pale Old World vulture native to southern Africa, known for its cliff-nesting colonies and its status as a threatened scavenger species.
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C.
greater flamingo
The greater flamingo is the largest and most widespread flamingo species, known for its pale pink plumage, long legs, and extensive breeding colonies in wetlands across Africa, southern Europe, and parts of Asia.
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D.
Andean condor
The Andean condor is a massive South American vulture and national symbol of several Andean countries, renowned for its impressive wingspan and soaring flight over high mountain ranges.
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E.
Aquila adalberti
Aquila adalberti, commonly known as the Spanish imperial eagle, is a large, endangered raptor endemic to the Iberian Peninsula and recognized for its dark plumage and pale shoulder patches.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bird species
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endangered species ⓘ stork ⓘ vertebrate ⓘ |
| activeTime | diurnal ⓘ |
| binomialName |
Leptoptilos
ⓘ
surface form:
Leptoptilos dubius
|
| bodySize | large ⓘ |
| breedingBehavior | colonial nester ⓘ |
| breedingHabitat | tall trees near wetlands ⓘ |
| class | Aves ⓘ |
| commonName |
greater adjutant stork
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
greater adjutant
|
| conservationThreat |
decline of nesting trees
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habitat loss ⓘ persecution ⓘ wetland degradation ⓘ |
| diet |
carrion
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invertebrates ⓘ offal ⓘ small vertebrates ⓘ |
| distributionTrend | declining ⓘ |
| family | Ciconiidae ⓘ |
| feedingBehavior | scavenger ⓘ |
| genus | Leptoptilos ⓘ |
| habitat |
floodplains
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garbage dumps ⓘ marshes ⓘ urban landfills ⓘ wetlands ⓘ |
| historicallyOccurredIn |
Laos
ⓘ
Myanmar ⓘ Thailand ⓘ |
| IUCNRedListCategory | EN ⓘ |
| IUCNStatus | Endangered ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| morphologicalType | wading bird ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan)
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surface form:
Bangladesh
Cambodia ⓘ India ⓘ South Asia ⓘ Southeast Asia ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
bare head
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bare neck ⓘ massive bill ⓘ pendulous throat pouch ⓘ |
| order | Ciconiiformes ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| primaryStronghold |
Assam
ⓘ
Cambodia ⓘ |
| relatedTo | lesser adjutant stork ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| wingspan | approximately 2.5 meters ⓘ |
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: greater adjutant stork Description of subject: The greater adjutant stork is a large, endangered scavenging stork native to South and Southeast Asia, known for its massive bill, bare head and neck, and reliance on wetlands and garbage dumps for feeding.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
greater adjutant