Southern masked weaver
E673330
The Southern masked weaver is a brightly colored African songbird known for the male’s intricate, woven hanging nests and distinctive black facial mask.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Southern masked weaver canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7576394 — 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: Southern masked weaver Context triple: [Ploceidae, includesSpecies, Southern masked weaver]
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A.
Tersina viridis
Tersina viridis, commonly known as the swallow tanager, is a brightly colored Neotropical bird species notable for its vivid turquoise plumage and distinctive swallow-like shape.
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B.
Venetian Bird
Venetian Bird is a 1952 British film noir thriller, also known as The Assassin, in which Sterling Hayden plays an American private investigator entangled in political intrigue in postwar Venice.
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C.
Weaver
Weaver is a common English occupational surname historically given to people who worked as weavers of cloth or textiles.
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D.
Weaver
Weaver is a central human resistance leader and military commander in the science fiction TV series "Falling Skies," known for his fierce opposition to the alien Espheni invaders.
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E.
Poecile
Poecile is a genus of small passerine birds in the tit family Paridae, which includes chickadees and tits found across the Northern Hemisphere.
- 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: Southern masked weaver Target entity description: The Southern masked weaver is a brightly colored African songbird known for the male’s intricate, woven hanging nests and distinctive black facial mask.
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A.
Tersina viridis
Tersina viridis, commonly known as the swallow tanager, is a brightly colored Neotropical bird species notable for its vivid turquoise plumage and distinctive swallow-like shape.
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B.
Venetian Bird
Venetian Bird is a 1952 British film noir thriller, also known as The Assassin, in which Sterling Hayden plays an American private investigator entangled in political intrigue in postwar Venice.
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C.
Weaver
Weaver is a common English occupational surname historically given to people who worked as weavers of cloth or textiles.
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D.
Weaver
Weaver is a central human resistance leader and military commander in the science fiction TV series "Falling Skies," known for his fierce opposition to the alien Espheni invaders.
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E.
Poecile
Poecile is a genus of small passerine birds in the tit family Paridae, which includes chickadees and tits found across the Northern Hemisphere.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bird
ⓘ
weaverbird ⓘ |
| breedingBehavior | colonial nester ⓘ |
| class | Aves ⓘ |
| clutchSize | 2–4 eggs ⓘ |
| commonName |
African masked weaver
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Southern masked weaver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conservationStatus | Least Concern ⓘ |
| conservationStatusSystem | IUCN Red List NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedBy | Andrew Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| diet |
insects
ⓘ
nectar ⓘ seeds ⓘ |
| distributionRegion | sub-Saharan Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eggColor |
greenish
ⓘ
pale blue ⓘ |
| family | Ploceidae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| femalePlumage | duller yellow-brown coloration ⓘ |
| foragingStratum |
ground
ⓘ
shrubs and trees ⓘ |
| genus | Ploceus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| habitat |
savanna
ⓘ
suburban gardens ⓘ wetlands ⓘ woodland ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| malePlumage |
black facial mask
ⓘ
bright yellow body ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Botswana
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eswatini NERFINISHED ⓘ Lesotho NERFINISHED ⓘ Mozambique NERFINISHED ⓘ Namibia NERFINISHED ⓘ South Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ Zimbabwe NERFINISHED ⓘ southern Africa ⓘ |
| nestBuilder | male ⓘ |
| nestMaterial |
grass strips
ⓘ
reeds ⓘ |
| nestType | woven hanging nest ⓘ |
| order | Passeriformes ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| scientificName | Ploceus velatus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexualDimorphism | present ⓘ |
| socialBehavior | gregarious ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| vocalization | complex song ⓘ |
| yearDescribed | 1839 ⓘ |
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: Southern masked weaver Description of subject: The Southern masked weaver is a brightly colored African songbird known for the male’s intricate, woven hanging nests and distinctive black facial mask.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.