Onychoprion
E305569
Onychoprion is a genus of tropical seabirds in the tern family, including species such as the sooty tern that are known for their pelagic lifestyle and large breeding colonies on remote islands.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Onychoprion fuscatus | 4 |
| Onychoprion canonical | 2 |
| Onychoprion aleuticus | 1 |
| Onychoprion anaethetus | 1 |
| Onychoprion lunatus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2861685 — 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: Onychoprion Context triple: [sooty tern, parentTaxon, Onychoprion]
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A.
Christmas Island frigatebird
The Christmas Island frigatebird is a large, critically endangered seabird species of frigatebird found only on Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean.
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B.
Sulidae
Sulidae is a family of large, seabird species that includes gannets and boobies, known for their plunge-diving behavior in oceans worldwide.
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C.
Pelican
Pelican was the English galleon originally commanded by Sir Francis Drake on his circumnavigation voyage, later renamed the Golden Hind.
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D.
Hydrobatidae
Hydrobatidae is a family of small, oceanic seabirds known as storm petrels, which spend most of their lives at sea and are adapted to a pelagic lifestyle.
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E.
Laysan albatross
The Laysan albatross is a large, long-lived seabird of the North Pacific Ocean, known for its impressive wingspan, extensive oceanic migrations, and dense breeding colonies on remote islands such as those in the Hawaiian archipelago.
- 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: Onychoprion Target entity description: Onychoprion is a genus of tropical seabirds in the tern family, including species such as the sooty tern that are known for their pelagic lifestyle and large breeding colonies on remote islands.
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A.
Christmas Island frigatebird
The Christmas Island frigatebird is a large, critically endangered seabird species of frigatebird found only on Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean.
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B.
Sulidae
Sulidae is a family of large, seabird species that includes gannets and boobies, known for their plunge-diving behavior in oceans worldwide.
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C.
Pelican
Pelican was the English galleon originally commanded by Sir Francis Drake on his circumnavigation voyage, later renamed the Golden Hind.
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D.
Hydrobatidae
Hydrobatidae is a family of small, oceanic seabirds known as storm petrels, which spend most of their lives at sea and are adapted to a pelagic lifestyle.
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E.
Laysan albatross
The Laysan albatross is a large, long-lived seabird of the North Pacific Ocean, known for its impressive wingspan, extensive oceanic migrations, and dense breeding colonies on remote islands such as those in the Hawaiian archipelago.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
genus
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| breedingBehavior | colonial breeder ⓘ |
| breedingSite |
coral islands
ⓘ
remote oceanic islands ⓘ sand cays ⓘ |
| class | Aves ⓘ |
| clutchSize | typically one egg ⓘ |
| colonialSize | large breeding colonies ⓘ |
| commonName | brown-backed terns ⓘ |
| containsTaxon |
Onychoprion
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Onychoprion aleuticus
Onychoprion self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Onychoprion anaethetus
Onychoprion self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Onychoprion fuscatus
Onychoprion self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Onychoprion lunatus
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| diet |
crustaceans
ⓘ
small fish ⓘ squid ⓘ |
| distribution |
tropical Atlantic Ocean
ⓘ
tropical Indian Ocean ⓘ tropical Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole |
indicator of ocean productivity
ⓘ
marine predator ⓘ |
| family | Sternidae ⓘ |
| foragingStrategy |
plunge diving
ⓘ
surface feeding ⓘ |
| habitat |
subtropical oceans
ⓘ
tropical oceans ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| lifestyle | pelagic ⓘ |
| migratoryBehavior | highly mobile over open ocean ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Greek onyx (claw) and prion (saw)} ⓘ |
| nestType | ground nest ⓘ |
| notableSpecies |
Aleutian tern
ⓘ
bridled tern ⓘ sooty tern ⓘ spectacled tern ⓘ |
| order | Charadriiformes ⓘ |
| parentTaxon | Sternidae ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| plumageCharacteristic |
dark upperparts
ⓘ
distinctive head pattern ⓘ white underparts ⓘ |
| reproductiveStrategy | long-lived seabird with delayed maturity ⓘ |
| socialBehavior | gregarious ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
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: Onychoprion Description of subject: Onychoprion is a genus of tropical seabirds in the tern family, including species such as the sooty tern that are known for their pelagic lifestyle and large breeding colonies on remote islands.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Onychoprion fuscatus
this entity surface form:
Onychoprion fuscatus
this entity surface form:
Onychoprion fuscatus
this entity surface form:
Onychoprion fuscatus
this entity surface form:
Onychoprion anaethetus
this entity surface form:
Onychoprion lunatus
this entity surface form:
Onychoprion aleuticus