Nesaea
E1039628
Nesaea is a genus of flowering aquatic and semi-aquatic plants in the loosestrife family, often found in wetlands and used in aquariums.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nesaea canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13395998 — 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: Nesaea Context triple: [Lythraceae, includesGenus, Nesaea]
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A.
Nesaea
Nesaea is a sea nymph (Nereid) from Greek mythology, known as one of the many daughters of the sea god Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.
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B.
Nyuserra
Nyuserra was a Fifth Dynasty ancient Egyptian pharaoh known for his extensive building projects, including sun temples and pyramid complexes at Abusir.
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C.
Eordaea
Eordaea was an ancient region in Upper Macedonia, known as one of the early Macedonian tribal areas in the northwest of the kingdom.
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D.
Nesiota
Nesiota is a small, likely extinct genus of flowering plants in the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae, historically known from the South Atlantic island of St. Helena.
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E.
Neaera
Neaera is a figure from Greek mythology known primarily as the wife of Autolycus, the master thief and grandfather of Odysseus.
- 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: Nesaea Target entity description: Nesaea is a genus of flowering aquatic and semi-aquatic plants in the loosestrife family, often found in wetlands and used in aquariums.
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A.
Nesaea
Nesaea is a sea nymph (Nereid) from Greek mythology, known as one of the many daughters of the sea god Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.
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B.
Nyuserra
Nyuserra was a Fifth Dynasty ancient Egyptian pharaoh known for his extensive building projects, including sun temples and pyramid complexes at Abusir.
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C.
Eordaea
Eordaea was an ancient region in Upper Macedonia, known as one of the early Macedonian tribal areas in the northwest of the kingdom.
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D.
Nesiota
Nesiota is a small, likely extinct genus of flowering plants in the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae, historically known from the South Atlantic island of St. Helena.
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E.
Neaera
Neaera is a figure from Greek mythology known primarily as the wife of Autolycus, the master thief and grandfather of Odysseus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
genus
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| belongsTo | loosestrife family ⓘ |
| clade |
Angiosperms
ⓘ
linked to:
Magnoliophyta
Eudicots ⓘ |
| commonName | nesaea ⓘ |
| describedIn | botanical taxonomy of Lythraceae ⓘ |
| family | Lythraceae ⓘ |
| habitat |
marshes
ⓘ
pond margins ⓘ river margins ⓘ swamps ⓘ wetlands ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
emergent growth in shallow water
ⓘ
opposite leaves ⓘ showy flowers ⓘ submerged growth in deeper water ⓘ |
| hasTypeSpecies | Nesaea triflora ⓘ |
| hasUse |
aquarium foreground plant
ⓘ
aquarium midground plant ⓘ ornamental plant ⓘ |
| isA |
aquatic plant genus
ⓘ
flowering plant genus ⓘ semi-aquatic plant genus ⓘ |
| isPartOf | flora of wetlands ⓘ |
| isRelatedTo |
Ammannia
ⓘ
Lythrum ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Africa
ⓘ
Madagascar ⓘ tropical regions ⓘ |
| order | Myrtales ⓘ |
| photosyntheticPathway | C3 ⓘ |
| pollination | insect-pollinated ⓘ |
| reproduction |
sexual reproduction via flowers
ⓘ
vegetative propagation ⓘ |
| requires |
aquatic or saturated soils
ⓘ
good lighting in aquaria ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| tolerates |
periodic emersion
ⓘ
submersion ⓘ |
| usedFor | aquarium plant ⓘ |
| usedIn | aquascaping ⓘ |
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: Nesaea Description of subject: Nesaea is a genus of flowering aquatic and semi-aquatic plants in the loosestrife family, often found in wetlands and used in aquariums.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.