Moraceae
E12373
Moraceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Rosales that includes figs, mulberries, and breadfruit, many of which are known for their milky latex and economic importance.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Moraceae canonical | 24 |
| Moraceae s.l. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T102865 — 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: Moraceae Context triple: [Rosales, includesTaxon, Moraceae]
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A.
Ulmaceae
Ulmaceae is a family of flowering trees and shrubs best known for including the elms, which are widespread in temperate regions.
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B.
Urticaceae
Urticaceae is a family of flowering plants commonly known as the nettle family, which includes herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees often characterized by stinging hairs and small, greenish flowers.
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C.
Rosales
Rosales is an order of flowering plants that includes many familiar trees, shrubs, and herbs such as elms, roses, and nettles.
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D.
Fabaceae
Fabaceae is a large and economically important family of flowering plants, commonly known as the legume or pea family, that includes beans, peas, lentils, and many other nitrogen-fixing species.
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E.
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.
- 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: Moraceae Target entity description: Moraceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Rosales that includes figs, mulberries, and breadfruit, many of which are known for their milky latex and economic importance.
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A.
Ulmaceae
Ulmaceae is a family of flowering trees and shrubs best known for including the elms, which are widespread in temperate regions.
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B.
Urticaceae
Urticaceae is a family of flowering plants commonly known as the nettle family, which includes herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees often characterized by stinging hairs and small, greenish flowers.
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C.
Rosales
Rosales is an order of flowering plants that includes many familiar trees, shrubs, and herbs such as elms, roses, and nettles.
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D.
Fabaceae
Fabaceae is a large and economically important family of flowering plants, commonly known as the legume or pea family, that includes beans, peas, lentils, and many other nitrogen-fixing species.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
plant family
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| characteristic |
flowers usually lack petals or have reduced perianth
ⓘ
fruit often a multiple or aggregate fruit ⓘ often has unisexual flowers ⓘ presence of milky latex ⓘ |
| class |
Magnoliopsida
ⓘ
linked to:
Eudicots
|
| commonName | mulberry family ⓘ |
| contains |
Antiaris
ⓘ
Artocarpus ⓘ Bagassa ⓘ Broussonetia ⓘ Castilla ⓘ Cecropia ⓘ Dorstenia ⓘ Fatoua ⓘ Ficus ⓘ Humulus ⓘ Maclura ⓘ Milicia ⓘ Morus ⓘ Sorocea ⓘ Trophis ⓘ |
| distribution |
also present in subtropical regions
ⓘ
cosmopolitan in tropical regions ⓘ |
| division | Magnoliophyta ⓘ |
| economicUse |
edible fruits such as breadfruit
ⓘ
edible fruits such as figs ⓘ edible fruits such as mulberries ⓘ fodder plants ⓘ latex production ⓘ ornamental plants ⓘ timber production ⓘ |
| growthForm |
herbs
ⓘ
lianas ⓘ shrubs ⓘ trees ⓘ |
| isA | family of flowering plants ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| notableMember |
Artocarpus altilis
ⓘ
linked to:
Artocarpus
Artocarpus heterophyllus ⓘ
linked to:
Artocarpus
Broussonetia papyrifera ⓘ
linked to:
Broussonetia
Ficus carica ⓘ Morus alba ⓘ
linked to:
Morus
|
| order | Rosales ⓘ |
| photosyntheticPathway | C3 ⓘ |
| pollination | primarily by insects ⓘ |
| taxonRank | family ⓘ |
| typeGenus | Morus ⓘ |
| usedFor |
food production
ⓘ
paper and fiber production ⓘ 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: Moraceae Description of subject: Moraceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Rosales that includes figs, mulberries, and breadfruit, many of which are known for their milky latex and economic importance.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.