Malus floribunda
E134089
Malus floribunda, commonly known as the Japanese flowering crabapple, is an ornamental crabapple tree valued for its abundant spring blossoms and small colorful fruits.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Malus floribunda canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1112255 — 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 floribunda Context triple: [Malus, notableSpecies, Malus floribunda]
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Sorbus
Sorbus is a genus of deciduous trees and shrubs, commonly known as rowans or whitebeams, valued for their ornamental foliage, flowers, and berry-like fruits.
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Prunus
Prunus is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs that includes cherries, plums, peaches, apricots, and almonds, many of which are important fruit and nut crops.
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C.
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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D.
Crataegus
Crataegus is a genus of shrubs and small trees commonly known as hawthorns, valued for their white or pink blossoms, red fruits, and use in ornamental planting and traditional medicine.
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E.
Mespilus
Mespilus is a small genus of deciduous fruit-bearing trees or shrubs in the rose family, best known for the common medlar cultivated for its distinctive, late-ripening fruit.
- 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 floribunda Target entity description: Malus floribunda, commonly known as the Japanese flowering crabapple, is an ornamental crabapple tree valued for its abundant spring blossoms and small colorful fruits.
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A.
Sorbus
Sorbus is a genus of deciduous trees and shrubs, commonly known as rowans or whitebeams, valued for their ornamental foliage, flowers, and berry-like fruits.
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B.
Prunus
Prunus is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs that includes cherries, plums, peaches, apricots, and almonds, many of which are important fruit and nut crops.
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C.
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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D.
Crataegus
Crataegus is a genus of shrubs and small trees commonly known as hawthorns, valued for their white or pink blossoms, red fruits, and use in ornamental planting and traditional medicine.
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E.
Mespilus
Mespilus is a small genus of deciduous fruit-bearing trees or shrubs in the rose family, best known for the common medlar cultivated for its distinctive, late-ripening fruit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
deciduous tree
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ornamental crabapple ⓘ plant species ⓘ |
| attracts |
bees
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birds ⓘ butterflies ⓘ |
| commonName |
Japanese crabapple
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Japanese flowering crabapple ⓘ showy crabapple ⓘ |
| cultivationUse |
garden specimen
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ornamental landscaping ⓘ street tree ⓘ |
| deciduousOrEvergreen | deciduous ⓘ |
| discoveredIn | 19th century ⓘ |
| diseaseResistance | apple scab resistance source in breeding ⓘ |
| family | Rosaceae ⓘ |
| flowerColor |
pink
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white ⓘ |
| floweringSeason | spring ⓘ |
| fruitColor |
red
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yellow ⓘ |
| fruitSize | small ⓘ |
| fruitType | pome ⓘ |
| fruitUse | ornamental ⓘ |
| genus | Malus ⓘ |
| hardiness | cold-hardy ⓘ |
| introducedTo |
Europe
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North America ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| leafArrangement | alternate ⓘ |
| leafType | simple ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
East Asia
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Japan ⓘ |
| notableTrait |
abundant spring blossoms
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profuse flowering ⓘ small colorful fruits ⓘ |
| order | Rosales ⓘ |
| plantGrowthForm | tree ⓘ |
| pollination | insect-pollinated ⓘ |
| soilPreference |
moderately fertile soil
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well-drained soil ⓘ |
| sunExposure | full sun ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| tolerates |
air pollution
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urban conditions ⓘ |
| typicalCrownShape | spreading crown ⓘ |
| typicalHeight | 4–8 m ⓘ |
| usedAs | rootstock in apple breeding ⓘ |
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 floribunda Description of subject: Malus floribunda, commonly known as the Japanese flowering crabapple, is an ornamental crabapple tree valued for its abundant spring blossoms and small colorful fruits.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.