Vigna
E209716
Vigna is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family that includes several important food crops such as cowpeas and mung beans.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vigna canonical | 2 |
| Bambara groundnut | 1 |
| Canavalia | 1 |
| Vigna aconitifolia | 1 |
| Vigna angularis | 1 |
| Vigna mungo | 1 |
| Vigna radiata | 1 |
| Vigna subterranea | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1891621 — 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: Vigna Context triple: [Faboideae, includesGenus, Vigna]
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A.
Macleaya
Macleaya is a small genus of tall, herbaceous flowering plants known as plume poppies, cultivated for their ornamental foliage and feathery flower plumes.
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B.
Cowpe
Cowpe is a small village in Lancashire, England, situated in the Rossendale Valley and known for its rural setting and former textile industry.
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C.
Gamosa
Gamosa is a traditional Assamese handwoven cotton cloth, typically white with red borders and motifs, symbolizing respect, cultural identity, and social bonding in Assam.
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D.
Menua
Menua was a prominent king of the ancient kingdom of Urartu, known for expanding its territory and developing extensive irrigation and fortification projects.
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E.
Tebu
Tebu is a Saharan ethnic group and language community primarily inhabiting parts of southern Libya, Chad, and Niger.
- 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: Vigna Target entity description: Vigna is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family that includes several important food crops such as cowpeas and mung beans.
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A.
Macleaya
Macleaya is a small genus of tall, herbaceous flowering plants known as plume poppies, cultivated for their ornamental foliage and feathery flower plumes.
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B.
Cowpe
Cowpe is a small village in Lancashire, England, situated in the Rossendale Valley and known for its rural setting and former textile industry.
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C.
Gamosa
Gamosa is a traditional Assamese handwoven cotton cloth, typically white with red borders and motifs, symbolizing respect, cultural identity, and social bonding in Assam.
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D.
Menua
Menua was a prominent king of the ancient kingdom of Urartu, known for expanding its territory and developing extensive irrigation and fortification projects.
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E.
Tebu
Tebu is a Saharan ethnic group and language community primarily inhabiting parts of southern Libya, Chad, and Niger.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
genus
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| belongsTo | legume family ⓘ |
| clade |
Angiosperms
ⓘ
linked to:
Magnoliophyta
Eudicots ⓘ Rosids ⓘ |
| commonName | vigna ⓘ |
| containsSpecies |
Vigna aconitifolia
ⓘ
linked to:
Vigna
Vigna angularis ⓘ
linked to:
Vigna
Vigna mungo ⓘ
linked to:
Vigna
Vigna radiata ⓘ
linked to:
Vigna
Vigna subterranea ⓘ
linked to:
Vigna
Vigna unguiculata ⓘ |
| cultivatedFor |
drought tolerance in some species
ⓘ
protein-rich seeds ⓘ |
| distribution |
subtropical regions
ⓘ
tropical regions ⓘ |
| economicImportance |
important food crops
ⓘ
important pulse crops ⓘ |
| family | Fabaceae ⓘ |
| flowerType | papilionaceous ⓘ |
| growthForm |
climbing vines
ⓘ
herbaceous plants ⓘ |
| includesCrop |
Bambara groundnut
ⓘ
linked to:
Vigna
adzuki bean ⓘ black gram ⓘ cowpea ⓘ moth bean ⓘ mung bean ⓘ |
| isA |
flowering plant genus
ⓘ
legume genus ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Domenico Vigna ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Africa
ⓘ
Asia ⓘ |
| nitrogenFixation | true ⓘ |
| order | Fabales ⓘ |
| photosyntheticPathway | C3 ⓘ |
| pollination | insect-pollinated ⓘ |
| reproduction | by seeds ⓘ |
| seedType | edible seeds ⓘ |
| subfamily | Faboideae ⓘ |
| symbiosisWith | rhizobia ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| tribe | Phaseoleae ⓘ |
| usedFor |
cover crop
ⓘ
forage ⓘ green manure ⓘ human food ⓘ |
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: Vigna Description of subject: Vigna is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family that includes several important food crops such as cowpeas and mung beans.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Vigna
linked to: Vigna
linked to: Vigna
linked to: Vigna
linked to: Vigna
linked to: Vigna
linked to: Vigna