Nestor
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Nestor is a genus of large, intelligent New Zealand parrots that includes species such as the kea and the kaka.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nestor canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7314723 — 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: Nestor Context triple: [New Zealand kaka, genus, Nestor]
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A.
Nestor
Nestor is the wise and elderly king of Pylos in Greek mythology, renowned for his counsel to heroes in Homer's epics.
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B.
Nestor
Nestor is the second episode of James Joyce’s novel "Ulysses," focusing on Stephen Dedalus’s morning teaching at a boys’ school and his reflections on history and authority.
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C.
Eleseus
Eleseus is a character in Knut Hamsun’s novel "Growth of the Soil," portrayed as the more educated and urban-minded son whose ambitions contrast with his family’s rural, agrarian life.
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D.
Weni the Elder
Weni the Elder was a prominent ancient Egyptian official and military commander who served several pharaohs during the Sixth Dynasty, known from his detailed autobiographical tomb inscription.
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E.
Timoteus
Timoteus is a male given name, commonly used in various European languages and derived from the biblical name Timothy.
- 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: Nestor Target entity description: Nestor is a genus of large, intelligent New Zealand parrots that includes species such as the kea and the kaka.
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A.
Nestor
Nestor is the wise and elderly king of Pylos in Greek mythology, renowned for his counsel to heroes in Homer's epics.
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B.
Nestor
Nestor is the second episode of James Joyce’s novel "Ulysses," focusing on Stephen Dedalus’s morning teaching at a boys’ school and his reflections on history and authority.
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C.
Eleseus
Eleseus is a character in Knut Hamsun’s novel "Growth of the Soil," portrayed as the more educated and urban-minded son whose ambitions contrast with his family’s rural, agrarian life.
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D.
Weni the Elder
Weni the Elder was a prominent ancient Egyptian official and military commander who served several pharaohs during the Sixth Dynasty, known from his detailed autobiographical tomb inscription.
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E.
Timoteus
Timoteus is a male given name, commonly used in various European languages and derived from the biblical name Timothy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
genus
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taxon ⓘ |
| class | Aves ⓘ |
| commonName |
Nestor parrots
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New Zealand parrots ⓘ |
| conservationConcern | several species threatened ⓘ |
| containsTaxon |
Nestor meridionalis
NERFINISHED
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Nestor notabilis NERFINISHED ⓘ Nestor productus NERFINISHED ⓘ Nestor superbus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedAs |
intelligent parrots
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large parrots ⓘ |
| distribution | New Zealand and surrounding islands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endemicTo | New Zealand NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| family | Nestoridae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| habitat |
New Zealand forests
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alpine regions of New Zealand ⓘ |
| includesSpecies |
kaka
ⓘ
kea ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| nativeTo | New Zealand NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableTrait |
complex social behavior
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high intelligence ⓘ strong beak adapted for foraging ⓘ |
| order | Psittaciformes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parentTaxon | Nestoridae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| typeSpecies | Nestor notabilis 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: Nestor Description of subject: Nestor is a genus of large, intelligent New Zealand parrots that includes species such as the kea and the kaka.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.