turkey vulture
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The turkey vulture is a large New World vulture known for its red, bare head, dark plumage, and habit of soaring on thermals while scavenging carrion across much of the Americas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| turkey vulture canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10835539 — 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: turkey vulture Context triple: [Cathartes aura, commonName, turkey vulture]
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A.
Vultur
Vultur is a genus of large New World vultures best known for including the Andean condor, one of the world’s largest flying birds.
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B.
Egyptian vulture
The Egyptian vulture is a small, white-and-black Old World vulture known for its distinctive yellow face and rare use of tools, such as stones to break open eggs.
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C.
Cape vulture
The Cape vulture is a large, pale Old World vulture native to southern Africa, known for its cliff-nesting colonies and its status as a threatened scavenger species.
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D.
lappet-faced vulture
The lappet-faced vulture is a large, powerful Old World vulture of African and Arabian dry regions, recognized by its bare, wrinkled head and neck folds and its role as a dominant scavenger at carcasses.
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E.
Old Turkey Buzzard
"Old Turkey Buzzard" is a Western-themed song, best known as the distinctive main title track from the 1969 film Mackenna's Gold.
- 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: turkey vulture Target entity description: The turkey vulture is a large New World vulture known for its red, bare head, dark plumage, and habit of soaring on thermals while scavenging carrion across much of the Americas.
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A.
Vultur
Vultur is a genus of large New World vultures best known for including the Andean condor, one of the world’s largest flying birds.
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B.
Egyptian vulture
The Egyptian vulture is a small, white-and-black Old World vulture known for its distinctive yellow face and rare use of tools, such as stones to break open eggs.
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C.
Cape vulture
The Cape vulture is a large, pale Old World vulture native to southern Africa, known for its cliff-nesting colonies and its status as a threatened scavenger species.
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D.
lappet-faced vulture
The lappet-faced vulture is a large, powerful Old World vulture of African and Arabian dry regions, recognized by its bare, wrinkled head and neck folds and its role as a dominant scavenger at carcasses.
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E.
Old Turkey Buzzard
"Old Turkey Buzzard" is a Western-themed song, best known as the distinctive main title track from the 1969 film Mackenna's Gold.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (68)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
New World vulture
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bird species ⓘ scavenger ⓘ |
| activityPattern | diurnal ⓘ |
| averageBodyLength | about 64 cm ⓘ |
| averageMass | about 2 kg ⓘ |
| averageWingspan | about 170 cm ⓘ |
| binomialName | Cathartes aura NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bodyLengthRange | 62–81 cm ⓘ |
| breedingSite |
abandoned buildings
ⓘ
caves ⓘ cliffs ⓘ hollow logs ⓘ |
| class | Aves ⓘ |
| clutchSizeRange | 1–3 eggs ⓘ |
| commonName |
buzzard
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turkey buzzard ⓘ turkey vulture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conservationThreats |
habitat loss
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poisoning from toxins in carrion ⓘ |
| defenseBehavior | regurgitates foul-smelling material ⓘ |
| describedBy | Carl Linnaeus ⓘ |
| diet | carrion ⓘ |
| eggColor | creamy white with brown markings ⓘ |
| family | Cathartidae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| feedingBehavior | scavenging ⓘ |
| flightSilhouette | V-shaped dihedral wings ⓘ |
| flightStyle | soaring on thermals ⓘ |
| genus | Cathartes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| habitat |
deserts
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grasslands ⓘ open country ⓘ pastures ⓘ rangelands ⓘ roadsides ⓘ subtropical forests ⓘ tropical forests ⓘ |
| headColor | red ⓘ |
| headFeathering | bare ⓘ |
| IUCNStatus | Least Concern ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| massRange | 0.8–2.4 kg ⓘ |
| migratoryBehavior | partially migratory ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Caribbean
NERFINISHED
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Central America ⓘ North America ⓘ South America ⓘ |
| nestBuilding | does not build elaborate nests ⓘ |
| northernPopulations | migrate south in winter ⓘ |
| order | Accipitriformes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| plumageColor | dark brown ⓘ |
| primaryFoodDetection | smell GENERATED ⓘ |
| primaryRangeLimitNorth | southern Canada GENERATED ⓘ |
| primaryRangeLimitSouth | Tierra del Fuego GENERATED ⓘ |
| roostingSite |
buildings
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large trees ⓘ towers ⓘ |
| secondaryFoodDetection | sight ⓘ |
| senseSpecialization | highly developed sense of smell ⓘ |
| socialBehavior | often roosts communally ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| thermoregulationBehavior | urohidrosis on legs ⓘ |
| underwingColor | two-toned with pale flight feathers ⓘ |
| vocalization | mostly hisses and grunts ⓘ |
| wingPosture | wings held in shallow V ⓘ |
| wingspanRange | 160–183 cm ⓘ |
| yearDescribed | 1758 ⓘ |
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: turkey vulture Description of subject: The turkey vulture is a large New World vulture known for its red, bare head, dark plumage, and habit of soaring on thermals while scavenging carrion across much of the Americas.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Cathartes aura