northern flicker
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The northern flicker is a medium-sized, brownish woodpecker of North America known for its spotted plumage, black bib, and bright flashes of yellow or red on its wings and tail in flight.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| northern flicker canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4353490 — 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: northern flicker Context triple: [Yellowhammer, alsoKnownAs, northern flicker]
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A.
Lark bunting
The lark bunting is a medium-sized North American sparrow known for the male’s striking black-and-white breeding plumage and melodious song, commonly found in the grasslands of the central United States.
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B.
Mountain bluebird
The Mountain bluebird is a small, bright sky-blue thrush native to western North America, often found in open habitats such as meadows and prairies.
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C.
Cassin’s Finch
Cassin’s Finch is a small North American songbird in the finch family, noted for the adult male’s rosy-red plumage and melodious warbling song.
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D.
Steller's jay
Steller's jay is a striking North American corvid known for its deep blue body, dark crest, and loud, varied calls, commonly found in coniferous forests of western North America.
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E.
Scissor-tailed flycatcher
The Scissor-tailed Flycatcher is a striking North American songbird known for its extremely long, forked tail and graceful aerial insect-hunting displays.
- 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: northern flicker Target entity description: The northern flicker is a medium-sized, brownish woodpecker of North America known for its spotted plumage, black bib, and bright flashes of yellow or red on its wings and tail in flight.
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A.
Lark bunting
The lark bunting is a medium-sized North American sparrow known for the male’s striking black-and-white breeding plumage and melodious song, commonly found in the grasslands of the central United States.
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B.
Mountain bluebird
The Mountain bluebird is a small, bright sky-blue thrush native to western North America, often found in open habitats such as meadows and prairies.
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C.
Cassin’s Finch
Cassin’s Finch is a small North American songbird in the finch family, noted for the adult male’s rosy-red plumage and melodious warbling song.
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D.
Steller's jay
Steller's jay is a striking North American corvid known for its deep blue body, dark crest, and loud, varied calls, commonly found in coniferous forests of western North America.
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E.
Scissor-tailed flycatcher
The Scissor-tailed Flycatcher is a striking North American songbird known for its extremely long, forked tail and graceful aerial insect-hunting displays.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bird
ⓘ
species ⓘ woodpecker ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | common flicker ⓘ |
| averageLength | about 28–36 cm ⓘ |
| averageWingspan | about 42–54 cm ⓘ |
| breedingBehavior | cavity nester ⓘ |
| callType | loud ringing calls ⓘ |
| class | Aves ⓘ |
| clutchSize | 4–9 eggs ⓘ |
| commonName | northern flicker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conservationStatus | Least Concern ⓘ |
| conservationStatusSystem | IUCN Red List NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| diet |
ants
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beetles ⓘ fruits ⓘ other insects ⓘ seeds ⓘ |
| distinctiveMarking | black bib on chest ⓘ |
| drummingBehavior | drums on trees and metal surfaces ⓘ |
| family | Picidae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foragingBehavior |
gleaning insects from the ground
ⓘ
ground foraging ⓘ |
| genus | Colaptes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| habitat |
forest edges
ⓘ
open woodlands ⓘ parks ⓘ suburban areas ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| migrationPattern | partially migratory ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Canada
NERFINISHED
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Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ North America ⓘ United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nestSite |
tree cavities
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wooden structures ⓘ |
| order | Piciformes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| plumageColor | brownish ⓘ |
| plumagePattern | spotted underparts ⓘ |
| primaryPrey | ants captured on the ground ⓘ |
| scientificName | Colaptes auratus ⓘ |
| subspeciesGroup |
red-shafted flicker
NERFINISHED
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yellow-shafted flicker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tailColorInFlight |
red
ⓘ
yellow ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| wingColorInFlight |
red
ⓘ
yellow ⓘ |
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: northern flicker Description of subject: The northern flicker is a medium-sized, brownish woodpecker of North America known for its spotted plumage, black bib, and bright flashes of yellow or red on its wings and tail in flight.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.