Tropicos botanical database
E181569
Tropicos botanical database is an online resource maintained by the Missouri Botanical Garden that provides comprehensive taxonomic and nomenclatural information on plant species worldwide.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tropicos | 4 |
| Tropicos botanical database canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1596593 — 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: Tropicos botanical database Context triple: [Missouri Botanical Garden, hasOnlineResource, Tropicos botanical database]
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A.
Plante
Plante is a French-origin surname commonly found in Canada and other Francophone regions, associated with several notable figures in sports, politics, and the arts.
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B.
Paradichrostachys
Paradichrostachys is a little-known flowering plant genus in the small family Dirachmaceae, native to arid regions of the Horn of Africa.
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C.
Touchardia
Touchardia is a small genus of flowering plants in the hemp family Cannabaceae, native to Hawaii and known for its shrubby, nettle-like species.
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D.
Lannea
Lannea is a genus of flowering plants in the cashew and sumac family, known for its trees and shrubs native mainly to tropical Africa and parts of Asia.
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E.
Critica Botanica
Critica Botanica is a 1737 botanical treatise by Carl Linnaeus in which he sets out principles and rules for the scientific naming and classification of plants.
- 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: Tropicos botanical database Target entity description: Tropicos botanical database is an online resource maintained by the Missouri Botanical Garden that provides comprehensive taxonomic and nomenclatural information on plant species worldwide.
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A.
Plante
Plante is a French-origin surname commonly found in Canada and other Francophone regions, associated with several notable figures in sports, politics, and the arts.
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B.
Paradichrostachys
Paradichrostachys is a little-known flowering plant genus in the small family Dirachmaceae, native to arid regions of the Horn of Africa.
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C.
Touchardia
Touchardia is a small genus of flowering plants in the hemp family Cannabaceae, native to Hawaii and known for its shrubby, nettle-like species.
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D.
Lannea
Lannea is a genus of flowering plants in the cashew and sumac family, known for its trees and shrubs native mainly to tropical Africa and parts of Asia.
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E.
Critica Botanica
Critica Botanica is a 1737 botanical treatise by Carl Linnaeus in which he sets out principles and rules for the scientific naming and classification of plants.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
botanical database
ⓘ
online database ⓘ |
| accessMode |
online search
ⓘ
web interface ⓘ |
| covers |
algae
ⓘ
bryophytes ⓘ fungi ⓘ vascular plants ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
Neotropical flora
ⓘ
global plant diversity ⓘ |
| hasAffiliation |
Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
ⓘ
linked to:
Missouri Botanical Garden
|
| hasDataSource |
Missouri Botanical Garden herbarium
ⓘ
linked to:
Missouri Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Garden library ⓘ
linked to:
Missouri Botanical Garden
|
| hasFullName | Tropicos botanical database ⓘ |
| hasGeographicScope | worldwide ⓘ |
| hasURL | http://www.tropicos.org ⓘ |
| hostedOn | World Wide Web ⓘ |
| includes |
author citations for plant names
ⓘ
family-level plant information ⓘ genus-level plant information ⓘ protologue references ⓘ publication details for plant names ⓘ scientific plant names ⓘ species-level plant information ⓘ taxonomic classifications ⓘ type specimen information ⓘ |
| isFreeToAccess | true ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
botany
ⓘ
plant nomenclature ⓘ plant taxonomy ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Missouri Botanical Garden ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Missouri Botanical Garden ⓘ |
| provides |
bibliographic information on plant names
ⓘ
distribution data for plant taxa ⓘ images of living plants ⓘ images of plant specimens ⓘ nomenclatural information on plants ⓘ specimen data for plant taxa ⓘ synonymy of plant names ⓘ taxonomic information on plants ⓘ |
| usedBy |
botanists
ⓘ
conservation biologists ⓘ ecologists ⓘ taxonomists ⓘ |
| usedFor |
biodiversity studies
ⓘ
floristic inventories ⓘ nomenclatural verification ⓘ taxonomic research ⓘ |
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: Tropicos botanical database Description of subject: Tropicos botanical database is an online resource maintained by the Missouri Botanical Garden that provides comprehensive taxonomic and nomenclatural information on plant species worldwide.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Tropicos botanical database
linked to: Tropicos botanical database
linked to: Tropicos botanical database
linked to: Tropicos botanical database
linked to: Tropicos botanical database