Sylvioidea
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Sylvioidea is a large superfamily of passerine birds that includes many warblers, babblers, and related songbirds found across much of the world.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sylvioidea canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1584461 — 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: Sylvioidea Context triple: [Aves, hasSubgroup, Sylvioidea]
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A.
Sylviidae
Sylviidae is a family of small insectivorous passerine birds commonly known as Old World warblers, found across Europe, Asia, and Africa.
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B.
Emberizoidea
Emberizoidea is a large superfamily of passerine birds that includes buntings, American sparrows, and related seed-eating songbirds.
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C.
Ponginae
Ponginae is a subfamily of great apes that includes the orangutans and their extinct close relatives.
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D.
Reduncinae
Reduncinae is a subfamily of African antelopes within the Bovidae family, including species such as reedbucks, kobs, and waterbucks that are typically associated with wetland and grassland habitats.
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E.
Pseudocheiridae
Pseudocheiridae is a family of nocturnal, arboreal marsupials commonly known as ringtail possums, native to Australia and nearby regions.
- 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: Sylvioidea Target entity description: Sylvioidea is a large superfamily of passerine birds that includes many warblers, babblers, and related songbirds found across much of the world.
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A.
Sylviidae
Sylviidae is a family of small insectivorous passerine birds commonly known as Old World warblers, found across Europe, Asia, and Africa.
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B.
Emberizoidea
Emberizoidea is a large superfamily of passerine birds that includes buntings, American sparrows, and related seed-eating songbirds.
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C.
Ponginae
Ponginae is a subfamily of great apes that includes the orangutans and their extinct close relatives.
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D.
Reduncinae
Reduncinae is a subfamily of African antelopes within the Bovidae family, including species such as reedbucks, kobs, and waterbucks that are typically associated with wetland and grassland habitats.
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E.
Pseudocheiridae
Pseudocheiridae is a family of nocturnal, arboreal marsupials commonly known as ringtail possums, native to Australia and nearby regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bird superfamily
ⓘ
clade of passerine birds ⓘ taxonomic superfamily ⓘ |
| characteristic |
mostly small insectivorous passerines
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primarily songbirds ⓘ |
| clade | Passerimorphae ⓘ |
| class | Aves ⓘ |
| commonName | sylvioid songbirds ⓘ |
| containsTaxon |
Acanthizidae
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Acrocephalus ⓘ
surface form:
Acrocephalidae
Aegithalidae ⓘ Alcippeidae ⓘ Bernieridae ⓘ Cettiidae ⓘ Cisticolidae ⓘ Donacobiidae ⓘ Erythrocercidae ⓘ Hyliidae ⓘ Leiothrichidae ⓘ Locustellidae ⓘ Macrosphenidae ⓘ Paradoxornithidae ⓘ Phylloscopus ⓘ
surface form:
Phylloscopidae
Pnoepygidae ⓘ Scotocercidae ⓘ Sylviidae ⓘ Zosteropidae ⓘ |
| distinguishedBy | molecular phylogenetic evidence ⓘ |
| distribution |
Africa
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Australasian realm ⓘ
surface form:
Australasia
Eurasia ⓘ Old World ⓘ worldwide ⓘ |
| hasMemberCount | includes several hundred species ⓘ |
| higherClassification | Passeroidea and other Passeri superfamilies are related groups ⓘ |
| includesCommonGroups |
babblers
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cisticolas ⓘ fulvettas ⓘ grassbirds ⓘ laughingthrushes ⓘ parrotbills ⓘ prinias ⓘ reed warblers ⓘ sylviid warblers ⓘ warblers ⓘ white-eyes ⓘ |
| infraclass | Neognathae ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| order | Passeriformes ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| suborder | Passeri ⓘ |
| superorder | Neoaves ⓘ |
| taxonRank | superfamily ⓘ |
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: Sylvioidea Description of subject: Sylvioidea is a large superfamily of passerine birds that includes many warblers, babblers, and related songbirds found across much of the world.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.