Polygonoideae
E273853
Polygonoideae is a subfamily of flowering plants within the knotweed family Polygonaceae, comprising many herbaceous species and shrubs often characterized by swollen stem nodes and sheathing stipules.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Polygonoideae canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2524332 — 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: Polygonoideae Context triple: [Polygonaceae, subfamily, Polygonoideae]
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A.
Ehrhartoideae
Ehrhartoideae is a subfamily of grasses that includes important cereal crops such as rice and related species.
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B.
Dirachmaceae
Dirachmaceae is a small family of flowering plants in the order Rosales, comprising rare shrubs or small trees native to arid regions of the Horn of Africa and nearby areas.
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C.
Poikilospermum
Poikilospermum is a genus of flowering plants in the hemp family Cannabaceae, comprising mostly tropical climbing or scrambling shrubs and small trees.
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D.
Surianaceae
Surianaceae is a small family of flowering plants within the order Fabales, comprising mostly tropical trees and shrubs such as those in the genus Suriana.
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E.
Faboideae
Faboideae is a large and diverse subfamily of flowering plants in the legume family (Fabaceae), known for its pea-like flowers and many agriculturally important species such as beans, peas, and soybeans.
- 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: Polygonoideae Target entity description: Polygonoideae is a subfamily of flowering plants within the knotweed family Polygonaceae, comprising many herbaceous species and shrubs often characterized by swollen stem nodes and sheathing stipules.
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A.
Ehrhartoideae
Ehrhartoideae is a subfamily of grasses that includes important cereal crops such as rice and related species.
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B.
Dirachmaceae
Dirachmaceae is a small family of flowering plants in the order Rosales, comprising rare shrubs or small trees native to arid regions of the Horn of Africa and nearby areas.
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C.
Poikilospermum
Poikilospermum is a genus of flowering plants in the hemp family Cannabaceae, comprising mostly tropical climbing or scrambling shrubs and small trees.
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D.
Surianaceae
Surianaceae is a small family of flowering plants within the order Fabales, comprising mostly tropical trees and shrubs such as those in the genus Suriana.
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E.
Faboideae
Faboideae is a large and diverse subfamily of flowering plants in the legume family (Fabaceae), known for its pea-like flowers and many agriculturally important species such as beans, peas, and soybeans.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: Polygonoideae Description of subject: Polygonoideae is a subfamily of flowering plants within the knotweed family Polygonaceae, comprising many herbaceous species and shrubs often characterized by swollen stem nodes and sheathing stipules.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.