Sageretia
E123064
Sageretia is a genus of flowering shrubs and small trees, often used in bonsai, known for their small leaves and colorful, peeling bark.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sageretia canonical | 2 |
| Sageretia theezans | 2 |
| Sageretia brandrethiana | 1 |
| Sageretia filiformis | 1 |
| Sageretia hamosa | 1 |
| Sageretia lucida | 1 |
| Sageretia rugosa | 1 |
| Sageretia thea | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T682105 — 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: Sageretia Context triple: [Rhamnaceae, hasMember, Sageretia]
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A.
Paliurus
Paliurus is a small genus of spiny shrubs and small trees known for their distinctive disc-shaped, winged fruits and occurrence in warm temperate to subtropical regions of Eurasia.
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B.
Girardinia
Girardinia is a small genus of stinging nettle-like flowering plants known for their fibrous stems and occurrence in tropical and subtropical regions.
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C.
Tetraclinis
Tetraclinis is a small genus of coniferous trees in the cypress family, best known for the species Tetraclinis articulata, commonly called the sandarac or Barbary thuja.
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D.
Hovenia
Hovenia is a small genus of flowering trees and shrubs, best known for the Japanese raisin tree (Hovenia dulcis), valued for its sweet, edible fruit stalks and use in traditional medicine.
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E.
Hunnemannia
Hunnemannia is a small genus of flowering plants in the poppy family, known for its ornamental, bright yellow, poppy-like blooms.
- 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: Sageretia Target entity description: Sageretia is a genus of flowering shrubs and small trees, often used in bonsai, known for their small leaves and colorful, peeling bark.
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A.
Paliurus
Paliurus is a small genus of spiny shrubs and small trees known for their distinctive disc-shaped, winged fruits and occurrence in warm temperate to subtropical regions of Eurasia.
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B.
Girardinia
Girardinia is a small genus of stinging nettle-like flowering plants known for their fibrous stems and occurrence in tropical and subtropical regions.
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C.
Tetraclinis
Tetraclinis is a small genus of coniferous trees in the cypress family, best known for the species Tetraclinis articulata, commonly called the sandarac or Barbary thuja.
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D.
Hovenia
Hovenia is a small genus of flowering trees and shrubs, best known for the Japanese raisin tree (Hovenia dulcis), valued for its sweet, edible fruit stalks and use in traditional medicine.
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E.
Hunnemannia
Hunnemannia is a small genus of flowering plants in the poppy family, known for its ornamental, bright yellow, poppy-like blooms.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
plant genus
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| clade |
Angiosperms
ⓘ
linked to:
Magnoliophyta
Eudicots ⓘ |
| family | Rhamnaceae ⓘ |
| flowerColor |
greenish-white
ⓘ
white ⓘ |
| fruitColor |
black
ⓘ
purple ⓘ |
| fruitType | drupe ⓘ |
| growthForm |
shrub
ⓘ
small tree ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
colorful bark
ⓘ
evergreen or semi-evergreen foliage ⓘ peeling bark ⓘ small leaves ⓘ spiny or thorny branches in some species ⓘ |
| hasCommonName |
Chinese sweet plum
ⓘ
mock buckthorn ⓘ |
| hasSpecies |
Sageretia brandrethiana
ⓘ
linked to:
Sageretia
Sageretia filiformis ⓘ
linked to:
Sageretia
Sageretia hamosa ⓘ
linked to:
Sageretia
Sageretia lucida ⓘ
linked to:
Sageretia
Sageretia rugosa ⓘ
linked to:
Sageretia
Sageretia thea ⓘ
linked to:
Sageretia
Sageretia theezans ⓘ
linked to:
Sageretia
|
| hasTypeSpecies |
Sageretia theezans
ⓘ
linked to:
Sageretia
|
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| leafUse | tea substitute in some regions ⓘ |
| namedBy | Jules Émile Planchon ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Afghanistan
ⓘ
Arabian Peninsula ⓘ China ⓘ East Asia ⓘ Himalayas ⓘ India ⓘ Pakistan ⓘ South Asia ⓘ Southeast Asia ⓘ northeastern Africa ⓘ |
| order | Rosales ⓘ |
| preferredClimate |
subtropical
ⓘ
warm temperate ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| tolerates |
pruning
ⓘ
shaping for bonsai ⓘ |
| usedFor |
bonsai
ⓘ
hedges ⓘ ornamental planting ⓘ traditional medicine ⓘ |
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: Sageretia Description of subject: Sageretia is a genus of flowering shrubs and small trees, often used in bonsai, known for their small leaves and colorful, peeling bark.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sageretia
linked to: Sageretia
linked to: Sageretia
linked to: Sageretia
linked to: Sageretia
linked to: Sageretia
linked to: Sageretia
linked to: Sageretia