summer tanager
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The summer tanager (Piranga rubra) is a medium-sized North American songbird known for the adult male’s bright red plumage and its habit of catching bees and wasps in open woodlands.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| summer tanager canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8913851 — 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: summer tanager Context triple: [Piranga rubra, commonName, summer tanager]
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A.
swallow tanager
The swallow tanager (Tersina viridis) is a small, brightly colored Neotropical songbird known for its vivid blue and green plumage and swallow-like silhouette in flight.
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B.
blue-gray tanager
The blue-gray tanager is a small, brightly colored Neotropical songbird known for its pale blue-gray plumage and frequent presence in open woodlands, gardens, and urban areas from Mexico through much of South America.
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C.
Brown thrasher
The Brown thrasher is a medium-sized North American songbird known for its rich, varied vocalizations and striking rufous-brown plumage with heavily streaked underparts.
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D.
Sunbird
"Sunbird" is a fantasy short story by Neil Gaiman that blends myth, humor, and metafiction as members of an epicurean club pursue the legendary, possibly immortal bird of the title.
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E.
Sunbird
Sunbird is the athletic mascot representing Fresno Pacific University’s sports teams.
- 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: summer tanager Target entity description: The summer tanager (Piranga rubra) is a medium-sized North American songbird known for the adult male’s bright red plumage and its habit of catching bees and wasps in open woodlands.
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A.
swallow tanager
The swallow tanager (Tersina viridis) is a small, brightly colored Neotropical songbird known for its vivid blue and green plumage and swallow-like silhouette in flight.
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B.
blue-gray tanager
The blue-gray tanager is a small, brightly colored Neotropical songbird known for its pale blue-gray plumage and frequent presence in open woodlands, gardens, and urban areas from Mexico through much of South America.
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C.
Brown thrasher
The Brown thrasher is a medium-sized North American songbird known for its rich, varied vocalizations and striking rufous-brown plumage with heavily streaked underparts.
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D.
Sunbird
Sunbird is the athletic mascot representing Fresno Pacific University’s sports teams.
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E.
Sunbird
"Sunbird" is a fantasy short story by Neil Gaiman that blends myth, humor, and metafiction as members of an epicurean club pursue the legendary, possibly immortal bird of the title.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bird
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species ⓘ |
| bodyLength | 17 cm ⓘ |
| bodyLengthRange | 16–19 cm ⓘ |
| breedingSystem | monogamous ⓘ |
| breedsIn |
northern Mexico
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
southeastern United States ⓘ southern United States NERFINISHED ⓘ south‑central United States ⓘ |
| class | Aves NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
scarlet tanager
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
western tanager NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| clutchSizeRange | 3–5 eggs ⓘ |
| commonName |
summer redbird
ⓘ
summer tanager ⓘ |
| currentlyClassifiedIn | Cardinalidae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedBy | Carl Linnaeus ⓘ |
| diet |
bees
ⓘ
fruits ⓘ insects ⓘ wasps ⓘ |
| eggColor | pale blue ⓘ |
| family | Cardinalidae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| femalePlumageColor | yellowish‑olive ⓘ |
| foragingStrategy | flycatching ⓘ |
| formerlyClassifiedIn | Thraupidae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genus | Piranga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| habitat |
forest edges
ⓘ
open woodlands ⓘ pine‑oak woodlands ⓘ riparian woodlands ⓘ |
| IUCNStatus | Least Concern NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| malePlumageColor | bright red ⓘ |
| massRange | 27–30 g ⓘ |
| migratoryBehavior | long‑distance migrant ⓘ |
| nativeTo | North America ⓘ |
| nestLocation | tree branches ⓘ |
| nestType | cup nest ⓘ |
| order | Passeriformes ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| scientificName | Piranga rubra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexualDimorphism | present ⓘ |
| songType | series of clear whistles ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| wingspanRange | 28–30 cm ⓘ |
| wintersIn |
Central America
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ northern South America ⓘ |
| yearDescribed | 1758 ⓘ |
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: summer tanager Description of subject: The summer tanager (Piranga rubra) is a medium-sized North American songbird known for the adult male’s bright red plumage and its habit of catching bees and wasps in open woodlands.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.