Thraupidae
E38055
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.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thraupidae canonical | 56 |
| Thraupinae | 7 |
| Geospizinae | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T289479 — 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: Thraupidae Context triple: [Galápagos finches, family, Thraupidae]
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A.
Passerida
Passerida is a large and diverse clade of perching birds that includes many familiar songbirds such as finches, warblers, and sparrows.
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B.
Passeriformes
Passeriformes is the largest order of birds, commonly known as perching birds or songbirds, encompassing over half of all bird species worldwide.
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C.
Cracidae
Cracidae is a family of large, primarily arboreal game birds native to the Neotropics, including chachalacas, guans, and curassows.
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D.
Phasianidae
Phasianidae is a large family of birds that includes pheasants, partridges, junglefowl, and related ground-dwelling gamebirds known for their often colorful plumage and importance in hunting and agriculture.
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E.
Mimus
Mimus is a genus of birds in the mockingbird family, best known for species like the Northern Mockingbird that are renowned for their complex and varied vocal mimicry.
- 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: Thraupidae Target entity description: 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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A.
Passerida
Passerida is a large and diverse clade of perching birds that includes many familiar songbirds such as finches, warblers, and sparrows.
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B.
Passeriformes
Passeriformes is the largest order of birds, commonly known as perching birds or songbirds, encompassing over half of all bird species worldwide.
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C.
Cracidae
Cracidae is a family of large, primarily arboreal game birds native to the Neotropics, including chachalacas, guans, and curassows.
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D.
Phasianidae
Phasianidae is a large family of birds that includes pheasants, partridges, junglefowl, and related ground-dwelling gamebirds known for their often colorful plumage and importance in hunting and agriculture.
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E.
Mimus
Mimus is a genus of birds in the mockingbird family, best known for species like the Northern Mockingbird that are renowned for their complex and varied vocal mimicry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (87)
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: Thraupidae Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (64)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Thraupinae