southern cassowary
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The southern cassowary is a large, flightless, helmeted bird native to the tropical rainforests of northeastern Australia and New Guinea, known for its striking blue and black plumage and powerful, potentially dangerous legs.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| southern cassowary canonical | 3 |
| Casuarius casuarius | 1 |
| Southern cassowary | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T563625 — 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.
Target entity: southern cassowary Context triple: [Daintree Rainforest, hasFauna, southern cassowary]
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A.
Karak the Red-tailed Black Cockatoo
Karak the Red-tailed Black Cockatoo is an Australian sporting mascot character based on the native red-tailed black cockatoo, created to represent Australian wildlife and culture at major events.
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B.
Pavo
Pavo is a genus of large, colorful birds in the pheasant family that includes the well-known peafowls.
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C.
Nicobar megapode
The Nicobar megapode is a rare, ground-dwelling mound-building bird endemic to India’s Nicobar Islands, known for incubating its eggs in large mounds of decaying vegetation and sand.
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D.
Aquila verreauxii
Aquila verreauxii, commonly known as Verreaux's eagle or the black eagle, is a large, predominantly black bird of prey native to mountainous and rocky regions of sub-Saharan Africa.
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E.
Indian peafowl
The Indian peafowl is a large, colorful pheasant species best known for the male’s spectacular iridescent tail display and is widely recognized as a symbol of beauty and grace in South Asia.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: southern cassowary Target entity description: The southern cassowary is a large, flightless, helmeted bird native to the tropical rainforests of northeastern Australia and New Guinea, known for its striking blue and black plumage and powerful, potentially dangerous legs.
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A.
Karak the Red-tailed Black Cockatoo
Karak the Red-tailed Black Cockatoo is an Australian sporting mascot character based on the native red-tailed black cockatoo, created to represent Australian wildlife and culture at major events.
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B.
Pavo
Pavo is a genus of large, colorful birds in the pheasant family that includes the well-known peafowls.
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C.
Nicobar megapode
The Nicobar megapode is a rare, ground-dwelling mound-building bird endemic to India’s Nicobar Islands, known for incubating its eggs in large mounds of decaying vegetation and sand.
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D.
Aquila verreauxii
Aquila verreauxii, commonly known as Verreaux's eagle or the black eagle, is a large, predominantly black bird of prey native to mountainous and rocky regions of sub-Saharan Africa.
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E.
Indian peafowl
The Indian peafowl is a large, colorful pheasant species best known for the male’s spectacular iridescent tail display and is widely recognized as a symbol of beauty and grace in South Asia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bird species
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cassowary ⓘ flightless bird ⓘ ratite ⓘ |
| activityPattern | mainly diurnal ⓘ |
| binomialName |
southern cassowary
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Casuarius casuarius
|
| class | Aves ⓘ |
| commonName |
double-wattled cassowary
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southern cassowary ⓘ |
| conservationStatus | Least Concern ⓘ |
| conservationStatusSystem |
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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surface form:
IUCN Red List
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| defenseMechanism | kicking with claws ⓘ |
| diet |
frugivore
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omnivore ⓘ |
| eats |
fallen fruit
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fungi ⓘ invertebrates ⓘ small vertebrates ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole |
keystone species
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seed disperser ⓘ |
| eggClutchSize | 3 to 5 eggs ⓘ |
| family | Casuariidae ⓘ |
| flightCapability | flightless ⓘ |
| genus | Casuarius ⓘ |
| geographicalDistribution |
Queensland
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surface form:
Queensland, Australia
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| habitat |
lowland forest
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montane forest ⓘ tropical rainforest ⓘ |
| hasAnatomicalFeature |
casque on head
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long inner toe claw ⓘ powerful legs ⓘ three-toed feet ⓘ |
| hasColor |
black body plumage
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blue head ⓘ blue neck ⓘ red wattles ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| maximumHeight | about 1.8 metres ⓘ |
| maximumWeight | over 60 kilograms ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Aru Islands
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New Guinea ⓘ Seram ⓘ northeastern Australia ⓘ |
| order | Casuariiformes ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| reproductiveBehavior |
ground nester
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male-only parental care ⓘ |
| socialBehavior | mostly solitary ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| threatToHumans | potentially dangerous ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: southern cassowary Description of subject: The southern cassowary is a large, flightless, helmeted bird native to the tropical rainforests of northeastern Australia and New Guinea, known for its striking blue and black plumage and powerful, potentially dangerous legs.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.