Claytonia
E288648
Claytonia is a small genus of flowering plants commonly known as spring beauties, valued for their delicate early-season blooms in temperate regions.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Claytonia canonical | 1 |
| Claytonia caroliniana | 1 |
| Claytonia megarhiza | 1 |
| Claytonia perfoliata | 1 |
| Claytonia sibirica | 1 |
| Claytonia virginica | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2686649 — 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: Claytonia Context triple: [Portulacaceae, notableGenus, Claytonia]
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A.
Abronia
Abronia is a genus of flowering plants commonly known as sand-verbenas, native to North America and often found in sandy or coastal habitats.
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B.
Alchemilla
Alchemilla is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants, commonly known as lady’s mantle, noted for their fan-shaped, softly hairy leaves that collect water droplets and their use in traditional herbal medicine.
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C.
Liatris
Liatris is a genus of North American flowering plants known for their tall spikes of purple or white blooms, commonly called blazing stars or gayfeathers and popular in ornamental gardening.
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D.
Larkspur
Larkspur is a small, affluent city in Marin County, California, known for its charming historic downtown and role as a commuter hub to San Francisco via nearby ferry services.
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E.
Sego lily
The Sego lily is a delicate, white-petaled wildflower native to the western United States, particularly associated with Utah, where it holds cultural and historical significance.
- 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: Claytonia Target entity description: Claytonia is a small genus of flowering plants commonly known as spring beauties, valued for their delicate early-season blooms in temperate regions.
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A.
Abronia
Abronia is a genus of flowering plants commonly known as sand-verbenas, native to North America and often found in sandy or coastal habitats.
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B.
Alchemilla
Alchemilla is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants, commonly known as lady’s mantle, noted for their fan-shaped, softly hairy leaves that collect water droplets and their use in traditional herbal medicine.
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C.
Liatris
Liatris is a genus of North American flowering plants known for their tall spikes of purple or white blooms, commonly called blazing stars or gayfeathers and popular in ornamental gardening.
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D.
Larkspur
Larkspur is a small, affluent city in Marin County, California, known for its charming historic downtown and role as a commuter hub to San Francisco via nearby ferry services.
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E.
Sego lily
The Sego lily is a delicate, white-petaled wildflower native to the western United States, particularly associated with Utah, where it holds cultural and historical significance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
plant genus
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Montiaceae ⓘ |
| clade |
Angiosperms
ⓘ
linked to:
Magnoliophyta
Eudicots ⓘ |
| commonName | spring beauties ⓘ |
| describedAs | small genus of flowering plants ⓘ |
| distribution |
Asia
ⓘ
North America ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole | early-season nectar source for pollinators ⓘ |
| family | Montiaceae ⓘ |
| floweringSeason | early spring ⓘ |
| flowerType | actinomorphic (radially symmetric) flowers ⓘ |
| growthCycle |
annual (in some species)
ⓘ
perennial (in many species) ⓘ |
| growthForm | herbaceous perennial ⓘ |
| habitat |
meadows
ⓘ
mountainous regions ⓘ woodlands ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
delicate flowers
ⓘ
produces early-season blooms ⓘ |
| hasEdiblePart |
leaves of some species
ⓘ
tubers of some species ⓘ |
| hasFlowerColor |
pale purple (in some species)
ⓘ
pink (in many species) ⓘ white (in many species) ⓘ |
| includesSpecies |
Claytonia caroliniana
ⓘ
linked to:
Claytonia
Claytonia megarhiza ⓘ
linked to:
Claytonia
Claytonia perfoliata ⓘ
linked to:
Claytonia
Claytonia sibirica ⓘ
linked to:
Claytonia
Claytonia virginica ⓘ
linked to:
Claytonia
|
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| leafType | simple leaves ⓘ |
| namedAfter | John Clayton ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
temperate regions of Asia
ⓘ
temperate regions of North America ⓘ |
| order | Caryophyllales ⓘ |
| petalNumber | five petals (in many species) ⓘ |
| photosyntheticPathway | C3 ⓘ |
| pollination | insect-pollinated ⓘ |
| prefersSoil | moist well-drained soils ⓘ |
| reproduction |
by seed
ⓘ
vegetative reproduction by tubers or rhizomes ⓘ |
| seedDispersal | gravity and small animals ⓘ |
| shadeTolerance | partial shade tolerant ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| usedAs | ornamental garden plant ⓘ |
| valuedFor | ornamental early-spring display ⓘ |
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: Claytonia Description of subject: Claytonia is a small genus of flowering plants commonly known as spring beauties, valued for their delicate early-season blooms in temperate regions.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Claytonia
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linked to: Claytonia
linked to: Claytonia