Quiscalus

E689374

genus taxon

Quiscalus is a genus of large, often iridescent New World blackbirds commonly known as grackles, found in a variety of open and urban habitats.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Quiscalus canonical	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	genus ⓘ taxon ⓘ
belongsTo	Icteridae NERFINISHED ⓘ
characteristic	large blackbirds ⓘ long tail ⓘ often iridescent plumage ⓘ strong conical bill ⓘ
class	Aves ⓘ
commonName	grackles ⓘ
diet	fruits ⓘ insects ⓘ seeds ⓘ small vertebrates ⓘ
distribution	New World NERFINISHED ⓘ
ecologicalRole	insect predator ⓘ seed disperser ⓘ
family	Icteridae NERFINISHED ⓘ
feedingBehavior	omnivorous ⓘ
habitat	agricultural areas ⓘ open habitats ⓘ urban habitats ⓘ wetlands ⓘ
hasSexualDimorphism	true ⓘ
includesSpecies	Quiscalus lugubris NERFINISHED ⓘ Quiscalus major NERFINISHED ⓘ Quiscalus mexicanus NERFINISHED ⓘ Quiscalus nicaraguensis NERFINISHED ⓘ Quiscalus niger NERFINISHED ⓘ Quiscalus palustris NERFINISHED ⓘ Quiscalus quiscula NERFINISHED ⓘ
kingdom	Animalia ⓘ
maleCharacteristic	larger size than female ⓘ more iridescent plumage ⓘ
nativeTo	Central America ⓘ North America ⓘ South America ⓘ
notableFor	adaptation to urban environments ⓘ noisy vocalizations ⓘ
order	Passeriformes ⓘ
parentTaxon	Icteridae NERFINISHED ⓘ
phylum	Chordata ⓘ
reproductiveBehavior	nests in colonies ⓘ
socialBehavior	forms large flocks ⓘ often gregarious ⓘ
subfamily	Icterinae NERFINISHED ⓘ
taxonRank	genus ⓘ
typeSpecies	Quiscalus quiscula NERFINISHED ⓘ
vernacularName	grackles ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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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: Quiscalus
Description of subject: Quiscalus is a genus of large, often iridescent New World blackbirds commonly known as grackles, found in a variety of open and urban habitats.

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Icteridae → includes → Quiscalus ⓘ