Assertion: blackbird | /r/HasProperty | descended
Facets:
value: from ancestors
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Although two European thrushes, the song thrush and mistle thrush, are early offshoots from the Eurasian lineage of Turdus thrushes after they spread north from Africa, the blackbird is descended from ancestors that had colonised the Canary islands from Africa and subsequently reached Europe from there.