Malus
E11020
Malus is a genus of deciduous trees and shrubs in the rose family best known for cultivated apples and ornamental crabapples.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Malus canonical | 5 |
| Malus domestica | 2 |
| Malus baccata | 1 |
| Malus pumila | 1 |
| Malus sieversii | 1 |
| Malus spp. | 1 |
| Pyrus | 1 |
| královské jablko | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T102851 — 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: Malus Context triple: [Rosales, includes, Malus]
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A.
Clementine
Clementine is a feminine given name most famously borne by Clementine Churchill, the wife of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
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B.
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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C.
Bladon
Bladon is a village in Oxfordshire, England, best known as the burial place of Sir Winston Churchill.
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D.
Colinus
Colinus is a genus of New World quails best known for species like the Northern bobwhite, small ground-dwelling game birds found in the Americas.
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E.
Andreas
Andreas is a masculine given name of Greek origin, commonly used in various European and international cultures.
- 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: Malus Target entity description: Malus is a genus of deciduous trees and shrubs in the rose family best known for cultivated apples and ornamental crabapples.
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A.
Clementine
Clementine is a feminine given name most famously borne by Clementine Churchill, the wife of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
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B.
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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C.
Bladon
Bladon is a village in Oxfordshire, England, best known as the burial place of Sir Winston Churchill.
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D.
Colinus
Colinus is a genus of New World quails best known for species like the Northern bobwhite, small ground-dwelling game birds found in the Americas.
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E.
Andreas
Andreas is a masculine given name of Greek origin, commonly used in various European and international cultures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | genus ⓘ |
| associatedProduct |
appleCider
ⓘ
appleFruit ⓘ appleJuice ⓘ |
| belongsToClade |
angiosperms
ⓘ
eudicots ⓘ rosids ⓘ
linked to:
Rosids
|
| class | Magnoliopsida ⓘ |
| commonName |
apple trees
ⓘ
crabapples ⓘ |
| division | Magnoliophyta ⓘ |
| economicImportance | sourceOfCultivatedApples ⓘ |
| family | Rosaceae ⓘ |
| flowerColor |
pink
ⓘ
white ⓘ |
| floweringPlant | true ⓘ |
| floweringSeason | spring ⓘ |
| fruitingSeason | lateSummerToAutumn ⓘ |
| fruitType | pome ⓘ |
| growthForm |
shrub
ⓘ
tree ⓘ |
| hasCultivarGroup |
ciderApples
ⓘ
cookingApples ⓘ dessertApples ⓘ |
| hasUse |
food
ⓘ
ornamental ⓘ rootstockForGrafting ⓘ |
| isDeciduous | true ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| leafPersistence | deciduous ⓘ |
| leafType | simpleLeaves ⓘ |
| nativeTo | temperateNorthernHemisphere ⓘ |
| notableSpecies |
Malus baccata
ⓘ
linked to:
Malus
Malus domestica ⓘ
linked to:
Malus
Malus floribunda ⓘ Malus pumila ⓘ
linked to:
Malus
Malus sieversii ⓘ
linked to:
Malus
Malus sylvestris ⓘ |
| order | Rosales ⓘ |
| parentTaxon | Rosaceae ⓘ |
| pollination | insectPollinated ⓘ |
| reproduction | sexualReproduction ⓘ |
| subfamily | Amygdaloideae ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| tribe | Maleae ⓘ |
| usedFor |
fruitProduction
ⓘ
ornamentalPlanting ⓘ |
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: Malus Description of subject: Malus is a genus of deciduous trees and shrubs in the rose family best known for cultivated apples and ornamental crabapples.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Malus
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linked to: Malus