black-faced spoonbill
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The black-faced spoonbill is a large, endangered wading bird of East Asia, recognizable by its distinctive spoon-shaped bill and black facial skin, that frequents coastal wetlands and estuaries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| black-faced spoonbill canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11868048 — 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: black-faced spoonbill Context triple: [Taijiang National Park, hasSpecies, black-faced spoonbill]
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A.
African spoonbill
The African spoonbill is a long-legged wading bird native to sub-Saharan wetlands, recognizable by its white plumage and distinctive spatula-shaped bill used for sweeping through shallow water to catch prey.
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B.
roseate spoonbill
The roseate spoonbill is a large wading bird of the Americas known for its striking pink plumage and distinctive spoon-shaped bill, commonly found in coastal marshes and wetlands.
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C.
Oriental white stork
The Oriental white stork is a large, endangered wading bird native to East Asia, known for its striking white plumage with black wing feathers and its reliance on wetland habitats for breeding and feeding.
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D.
white-naped crane
The white-naped crane is a large, migratory East Asian crane species known for its distinctive white nape and reliance on wetlands and grasslands for breeding and wintering.
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E.
Saddle-billed stork
The saddle-billed stork is a large, striking African wading bird known for its long red-and-black bill with a yellow “saddle” shield and its impressive stature in wetlands and floodplains.
- 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: black-faced spoonbill Target entity description: The black-faced spoonbill is a large, endangered wading bird of East Asia, recognizable by its distinctive spoon-shaped bill and black facial skin, that frequents coastal wetlands and estuaries.
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A.
African spoonbill
The African spoonbill is a long-legged wading bird native to sub-Saharan wetlands, recognizable by its white plumage and distinctive spatula-shaped bill used for sweeping through shallow water to catch prey.
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B.
roseate spoonbill
The roseate spoonbill is a large wading bird of the Americas known for its striking pink plumage and distinctive spoon-shaped bill, commonly found in coastal marshes and wetlands.
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C.
Oriental white stork
The Oriental white stork is a large, endangered wading bird native to East Asia, known for its striking white plumage with black wing feathers and its reliance on wetland habitats for breeding and feeding.
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D.
white-naped crane
The white-naped crane is a large, migratory East Asian crane species known for its distinctive white nape and reliance on wetlands and grasslands for breeding and wintering.
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E.
Saddle-billed stork
The saddle-billed stork is a large, striking African wading bird known for its long red-and-black bill with a yellow “saddle” shield and its impressive stature in wetlands and floodplains.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bird species
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endangered species ⓘ wading bird ⓘ |
| averageLength | about 70–78 cm ⓘ |
| averageWingspan | about 120–130 cm ⓘ |
| binomialName | Platalea minor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| breedsIn |
China
NERFINISHED
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Korea NERFINISHED ⓘ Russia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| CITESListing | Appendix I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| class | Aves NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commonName |
Black-faced Spoonbill
NERFINISHED
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black-faced spoonbill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conservationStatus | globally endangered ⓘ |
| diet |
aquatic invertebrates
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crustaceans ⓘ small fish ⓘ |
| distinctiveFeature |
black facial skin
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spoon-shaped bill ⓘ |
| family | Threskiornithidae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| feedingBehavior |
sweeping bill side-to-side to catch prey
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wading in shallow water ⓘ |
| genus | Platalea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| habitat |
coastal wetlands
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estuaries ⓘ mudflats ⓘ shallow coastal lagoons ⓘ |
| IUCNRedListCategory | EN ⓘ |
| IUCNRedListSystem | IUCN 3.1 ⓘ |
| IUCNStatus | Endangered ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| migratory | true ⓘ |
| nativeTo | East Asia ⓘ |
| nestSite |
offshore islets
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rocky islands ⓘ |
| order | Pelecaniformes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| plumage | mostly white ⓘ |
| protectedBy | international conservation agreements ⓘ |
| reproduction | colonial nester ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| threat |
coastal reclamation
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disturbance at breeding sites ⓘ habitat loss ⓘ pollution ⓘ |
| wintersIn |
Hong Kong
NERFINISHED
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Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ Macau NERFINISHED ⓘ Taiwan NERFINISHED ⓘ Vietnam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: black-faced spoonbill Description of subject: The black-faced spoonbill is a large, endangered wading bird of East Asia, recognizable by its distinctive spoon-shaped bill and black facial skin, that frequents coastal wetlands and estuaries.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.