Nicotiana tabacum
E288946
Nicotiana tabacum is the cultivated tobacco plant, widely grown for its leaves used in the production of cigarettes and other tobacco products.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nicotiana tabacum canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2671236 — 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: Nicotiana tabacum Context triple: [Asterids, includesSpecies, Nicotiana tabacum]
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A.
Canna
Canna is a small, historically rich island in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides, known for its wildlife, archaeological sites, and ownership by the National Trust for Scotland.
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B.
Arachis
Arachis is a genus of flowering legumes best known for including the cultivated peanut, Arachis hypogaea.
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C.
Boerhavia
Boerhavia is a genus of flowering plants, commonly known as spiderlings, found in warm regions worldwide and noted for their weedy, sprawling habit and small clustered flowers.
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D.
Glycine max
Glycine max is the cultivated soybean plant, a major legume crop grown worldwide for its protein- and oil-rich seeds used in food, feed, and industrial products.
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E.
Ganja
Ganja is one of Azerbaijan’s largest and oldest cities, known as a historic cultural and economic center in the South Caucasus.
- 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: Nicotiana tabacum Target entity description: Nicotiana tabacum is the cultivated tobacco plant, widely grown for its leaves used in the production of cigarettes and other tobacco products.
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A.
Canna
Canna is a small, historically rich island in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides, known for its wildlife, archaeological sites, and ownership by the National Trust for Scotland.
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B.
Arachis
Arachis is a genus of flowering legumes best known for including the cultivated peanut, Arachis hypogaea.
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C.
Boerhavia
Boerhavia is a genus of flowering plants, commonly known as spiderlings, found in warm regions worldwide and noted for their weedy, sprawling habit and small clustered flowers.
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D.
Glycine max
Glycine max is the cultivated soybean plant, a major legume crop grown worldwide for its protein- and oil-rich seeds used in food, feed, and industrial products.
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E.
Ganja
Ganja is one of Azerbaijan’s largest and oldest cities, known as a historic cultural and economic center in the South Caucasus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cultivated plant
ⓘ
flowering plant ⓘ plant species ⓘ |
| authority |
Linnaeus
ⓘ
linked to:
Carl Linnaeus
|
| binomialName | Nicotiana tabacum ⓘ |
| class | Magnoliopsida ⓘ |
| commonName |
cultivated tobacco
ⓘ
tobacco ⓘ |
| containsCompound |
alkaloids
ⓘ
nicotine ⓘ tar precursors ⓘ |
| cultivatedIn |
Africa
ⓘ
Asia ⓘ Europe ⓘ North America ⓘ Oceania ⓘ South America ⓘ |
| describedBy | Carl Linnaeus ⓘ |
| describedInYear | 1753 ⓘ |
| division | Magnoliophyta ⓘ |
| economicUse |
cash crop
ⓘ
industrial crop ⓘ |
| family | Solanaceae ⓘ |
| flowerColor |
pink
ⓘ
white ⓘ |
| genus | Nicotiana ⓘ |
| growthForm | herbaceous plant ⓘ |
| healthImpact | source of addictive nicotine in tobacco products ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| leafType | broadleaf ⓘ |
| lifeCycle | annual ⓘ |
| nativeTo | South America ⓘ |
| order | Solanales ⓘ |
| originRegion | Andean region ⓘ |
| plantPartHarvested | leaves ⓘ |
| pollination | insect-pollinated ⓘ |
| processingStep |
curing of leaves
ⓘ
fermentation of leaves ⓘ |
| propagationMethod | seed ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Nicotiana rustica
ⓘ
linked to:
Nicotiana
|
| requires |
warm climate
ⓘ
well-drained soil ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| usedFor |
chewing tobacco production
ⓘ
cigar production ⓘ cigarette production ⓘ pipe tobacco production ⓘ snuff production ⓘ |
| usedInIndustry | tobacco industry ⓘ |
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: Nicotiana tabacum Description of subject: Nicotiana tabacum is the cultivated tobacco plant, widely grown for its leaves used in the production of cigarettes and other tobacco products.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.