Hymenolaimus

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Hymenolaimus is a monotypic genus of ducks that includes the rare, fast-flowing river specialist known as the blue duck or whio, endemic to New Zealand.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Hymenolaimus canonical 2
Entomyzon 1

Statements (29)

Predicate Object
instanceOf bird genus
bird species
taxon
class Aves
commonName blue duck
blue duck genus
whio
conservationStatus Endangered
describedBy George Robert Gray
endemicTo New Zealand
family Anatidae
habitat fast-flowing rivers
mountain streams
hasMember blue duck
whio
hasSpecies Hymenolaimus malacorhynchos
isMonotypic true
kingdom Animalia
nativeTo New Zealand
order Anseriformes
parentTaxon Anatidae
Anatidae
surface form: Anatinae

Hymenolaimus self-linksurface differs
phylum Chordata
subfamily Anatidae
surface form: Anatinae
taxonRank genus
species
threat habitat loss
introduced predators

How these facts were elicited

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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: Hymenolaimus
Description of subject: Hymenolaimus is a monotypic genus of ducks that includes the rare, fast-flowing river specialist known as the blue duck or whio, endemic to New Zealand.

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

blue duck (whio) genus Hymenolaimus
subject surface form: blue duck
Meliphagidae includesGenus Hymenolaimus
this entity surface form: Entomyzon
Hymenolaimus parentTaxon Hymenolaimus self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: Hymenolaimus malacorhynchos