Humulus
E10151
Humulus is a small genus of flowering plants in the hemp family best known for the hop plant used in brewing beer.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Humulus canonical | 4 |
| Hops | 2 |
| Saaz hops | 2 |
| Cascade hops | 1 |
| Hallertau | 1 |
| Humulus japonicus | 1 |
| Humulus yunnanensis | 1 |
| Saaz noble hop variety | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T102859 — 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: Humulus Context triple: [Rosales, includes, Humulus]
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A.
Ulmus
Ulmus is a genus of deciduous trees commonly known as elms, widely distributed across the Northern Hemisphere and valued for their distinctive vase-shaped form and use in landscaping and timber.
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B.
Tebu
Tebu is a Saharan ethnic group and language community primarily inhabiting parts of southern Libya, Chad, and Niger.
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C.
Lupinus
Lupinus is a large genus of flowering plants in the legume family, commonly known as lupines, noted for their tall, colorful flower spikes and nitrogen-fixing ability.
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D.
Bladon
Bladon is a village in Oxfordshire, England, best known as the burial place of Sir Winston Churchill.
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E.
Sekai Holland
Sekai Holland is a Zimbabwean politician, human rights activist, and co-founder of the Movement for Democratic Change known for her long struggle for democracy and social justice.
- 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: Humulus Target entity description: Humulus is a small genus of flowering plants in the hemp family best known for the hop plant used in brewing beer.
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A.
Ulmus
Ulmus is a genus of deciduous trees commonly known as elms, widely distributed across the Northern Hemisphere and valued for their distinctive vase-shaped form and use in landscaping and timber.
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B.
Tebu
Tebu is a Saharan ethnic group and language community primarily inhabiting parts of southern Libya, Chad, and Niger.
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C.
Lupinus
Lupinus is a large genus of flowering plants in the legume family, commonly known as lupines, noted for their tall, colorful flower spikes and nitrogen-fixing ability.
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D.
Bladon
Bladon is a village in Oxfordshire, England, best known as the burial place of Sir Winston Churchill.
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E.
Sekai Holland
Sekai Holland is a Zimbabwean politician, human rights activist, and co-founder of the Movement for Democratic Change known for her long struggle for democracy and social justice.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
plant genus
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taxon ⓘ |
| clade |
Angiosperms
ⓘ
Eudicots ⓘ Rosids ⓘ |
| climbingMechanism | twining stems ⓘ |
| commonName | hops ⓘ |
| containsCompound |
alpha acids
ⓘ
beta acids ⓘ essential oils ⓘ lupulin glands ⓘ |
| containsTaxon |
Humulus japonicus
ⓘ
linked to:
Humulus
Humulus lupulus ⓘ Humulus yunnanensis ⓘ
linked to:
Humulus
|
| cultivatedFor |
hop cones
ⓘ
resinous lupulin ⓘ |
| describedAs | small genus within Cannabaceae ⓘ |
| division | Magnoliophyta ⓘ |
| economicUse |
brewing industry
ⓘ
herbal medicine ⓘ |
| family | Cannabaceae ⓘ |
| flowerType | unisexual flowers ⓘ |
| growthForm |
climbing herbaceous plant
ⓘ
perennial vine (for most species) ⓘ |
| habitat |
hedgerows
ⓘ
riverbanks ⓘ woodland edges ⓘ |
| hasPart | cone-like inflorescences ⓘ |
| hasUse |
aroma agent in beer
ⓘ
bittering agent in beer ⓘ sedative herbal preparations ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| leafType | palmately lobed leaves ⓘ |
| nativeTo | temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere ⓘ |
| notableFor | hop plants used in brewing beer ⓘ |
| order | Rosales ⓘ |
| photosyntheticPathway | C3 ⓘ |
| pollination | wind-pollinated ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Cannabis ⓘ |
| reproduction | dioecious ⓘ |
| taxonomicAuthority | Carl Linnaeus ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| typeOf | flowering plant genus ⓘ |
| usedFor |
beer brewing
ⓘ
flavoring beer ⓘ stabilizing beer ⓘ |
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: Humulus Description of subject: Humulus is a small genus of flowering plants in the hemp family best known for the hop plant used in brewing beer.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Washington State, United States
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