White stork
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The white stork is a large, long-legged migratory bird of Europe, Asia, and Africa, famous for its striking black-and-white plumage and cultural association with delivering babies.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ciconia ciconia | 4 |
| White stork canonical | 1 |
| white stork | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6456315 — 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: White stork Context triple: [Stork, notableSpecies, White stork]
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A.
Weiße Elster
Weiße Elster is a river in Central Europe that flows through parts of Germany and the Czech Republic, eventually joining the Saale River.
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B.
white-tailed eagle
The white-tailed eagle is a large bird of prey found across northern Europe and Asia, known for its broad wings, pale head and tail, and preference for coastal and wetland habitats.
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C.
Branta ruficollis
Branta ruficollis, commonly known as the red-breasted goose, is a strikingly colored, small Arctic-breeding goose species native to Siberia and wintering mainly around the Black Sea.
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D.
Audouin's gull
Audouin's gull is a rare Mediterranean seabird species known for its pale plumage, dark bill, and conservation-dependent breeding colonies along coastal and island habitats.
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E.
Caspian tern
The Caspian tern is a large, powerful seabird and the world’s biggest tern species, known for its stout red bill and wide distribution across coastal and inland waters worldwide.
- 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: White stork Target entity description: The white stork is a large, long-legged migratory bird of Europe, Asia, and Africa, famous for its striking black-and-white plumage and cultural association with delivering babies.
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A.
Weiße Elster
Weiße Elster is a river in Central Europe that flows through parts of Germany and the Czech Republic, eventually joining the Saale River.
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B.
white-tailed eagle
The white-tailed eagle is a large bird of prey found across northern Europe and Asia, known for its broad wings, pale head and tail, and preference for coastal and wetland habitats.
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C.
Branta ruficollis
Branta ruficollis, commonly known as the red-breasted goose, is a strikingly colored, small Arctic-breeding goose species native to Siberia and wintering mainly around the Black Sea.
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D.
Audouin's gull
Audouin's gull is a rare Mediterranean seabird species known for its pale plumage, dark bill, and conservation-dependent breeding colonies along coastal and island habitats.
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E.
Caspian tern
The Caspian tern is a large, powerful seabird and the world’s biggest tern species, known for its stout red bill and wide distribution across coastal and inland waters worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (63)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bird species
ⓘ
migratory bird ⓘ stork ⓘ |
| avoidsFlyingOver | Mediterranean Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| benefitsFrom |
nest platforms on poles
ⓘ
traditional low-intensity agriculture ⓘ |
| binomialName | Ciconia ciconia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| breedsIn |
Europe
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
northwestern Africa ⓘ western Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| class | Aves ⓘ |
| clutchSize | 3–5 eggs ⓘ |
| commonName | white stork ⓘ |
| conservationStatus | Least Concern ⓘ |
| conservationStatusSystem | IUCN Red List NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| family | Ciconiidae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| feedsOn |
amphibians
ⓘ
earthworms ⓘ insects ⓘ reptiles ⓘ small fish ⓘ small mammals ⓘ |
| fledgingPeriod | about 58–64 days ⓘ |
| foragesIn |
pastures
ⓘ
shallow wetlands ⓘ wet meadows ⓘ |
| genus | Ciconia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAverageMass | 2.3–4.5 kg ⓘ |
| hasBillColor | red ⓘ |
| hasBodyLength | 100–115 cm ⓘ |
| hasCulturalAssociation |
bringing babies
ⓘ
good luck ⓘ |
| hasLegColor | red ⓘ |
| hasPlumageColor |
black
ⓘ
white ⓘ |
| hasSymbolismIn |
European folklore
ⓘ
German folklore ⓘ Slavic folklore ⓘ |
| hasWingspan | 155–215 cm ⓘ |
| incubationPeriod | about 33–34 days ⓘ |
| isLongLegged | true ⓘ |
| isLongNecked | true ⓘ |
| isMigratory | true ⓘ |
| isMonogamous | seasonally monogamous ⓘ |
| isNationalBirdOf | Poland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isProtectedIn | European Union NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| nestsOn |
buildings
ⓘ
chimneys ⓘ poles ⓘ trees ⓘ |
| nestType | large stick nest ⓘ |
| order | Ciconiiformes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| threatenedBy |
habitat loss
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wetland drainage ⓘ |
| usesMigrationRoute |
eastern migration route via the Balkans and Middle East
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western migration route via Iberia and Strait of Gibraltar ⓘ |
| usesSoaringFlight | true ⓘ |
| vocalization | mainly bill-clattering at nest ⓘ |
| wintersIn |
Indian subcontinent
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
sub-Saharan Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: White stork Description of subject: The white stork is a large, long-legged migratory bird of Europe, Asia, and Africa, famous for its striking black-and-white plumage and cultural association with delivering babies.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ciconia ciconia
this entity surface form:
Ciconia ciconia
this entity surface form:
white stork
subject surface form:
Kounotori
this entity surface form:
Ciconia ciconia
subject surface form:
Kounotori
this entity surface form:
Ciconia ciconia