Aquifoliales
E293664
Aquifoliales is an order of flowering plants that includes holly (Ilex) and several related woody families within the asterid clade.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Aquifoliales canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2661121 — 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: Aquifoliales Context triple: [Superasterids, includes, Aquifoliales]
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A.
Malvales
Malvales is an order of flowering plants that includes mallows, hibiscus, and related families known for their often showy flowers and economic importance.
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B.
Sapindales
Sapindales is an order of flowering plants that includes economically and ecologically important trees and shrubs such as mangoes, citrus, maples, and cashews.
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C.
Pinopsida
Pinopsida is the class of coniferous, seed-producing gymnosperm plants that includes pines, cypresses, firs, and related trees and shrubs.
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D.
Ranunculales
Ranunculales is an order of flowering plants that includes several families of mostly herbaceous species, many of which are known for their ornamental flowers and bioactive chemical compounds.
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E.
Saxifragales
Saxifragales is an order of flowering plants within the eudicots that includes diverse families such as saxifrages, stonecrops, and sweetgums, many of which are important ornamentals or components of temperate ecosystems.
- 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: Aquifoliales Target entity description: Aquifoliales is an order of flowering plants that includes holly (Ilex) and several related woody families within the asterid clade.
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A.
Malvales
Malvales is an order of flowering plants that includes mallows, hibiscus, and related families known for their often showy flowers and economic importance.
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B.
Sapindales
Sapindales is an order of flowering plants that includes economically and ecologically important trees and shrubs such as mangoes, citrus, maples, and cashews.
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C.
Pinopsida
Pinopsida is the class of coniferous, seed-producing gymnosperm plants that includes pines, cypresses, firs, and related trees and shrubs.
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D.
Ranunculales
Ranunculales is an order of flowering plants that includes several families of mostly herbaceous species, many of which are known for their ornamental flowers and bioactive chemical compounds.
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E.
Saxifragales
Saxifragales is an order of flowering plants within the eudicots that includes diverse families such as saxifrages, stonecrops, and sweetgums, many of which are important ornamentals or components of temperate ecosystems.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
order of flowering plants
ⓘ
plant order ⓘ taxonomic rank ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Asterids ⓘ |
| clade |
Angiosperms
ⓘ
linked to:
Magnoliophyta
Asterids ⓘ Eudicots ⓘ |
| class | Magnoliopsida ⓘ |
| commonMember | holly ⓘ |
| containsHerbaceousSpecies | few or none ⓘ |
| containsWoodyFamilies | true ⓘ |
| distribution | cosmopolitan ⓘ |
| division | Magnoliophyta ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole |
food source for birds
ⓘ
understory shrubs in forests ⓘ |
| economicUse |
Christmas decorations (holly)
ⓘ
ornamental plants ⓘ |
| fruitType | drupes common ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
evergreen species common
ⓘ
many species with red berries ⓘ often with toothed leaf margins ⓘ simple leaves common ⓘ |
| hasGrowthForm | woody plants ⓘ |
| hasMemberType |
shrubs
ⓘ
trees ⓘ |
| hasTypeGenus | Ilex ⓘ |
| includesFamily |
Aquifoliaceae
ⓘ
Cardiopteridaceae ⓘ Helwingiaceae ⓘ Phyllonomaceae ⓘ Stemonuraceae ⓘ |
| includesGenus | Ilex ⓘ |
| isPartOf | core asterids ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| leafArrangement | alternate leaves common ⓘ |
| molecularEvidence | supported by DNA sequence data ⓘ |
| notableGenus | Ilex aquifolium ⓘ |
| photosyntheticPathway | C3 ⓘ |
| pollination | insect-pollinated species common ⓘ |
| previouslyClassifiedIn |
Celastrales (some families, historical)
ⓘ
Icacinales (some families, historical) ⓘ |
| recognizedBy |
APG III system
ⓘ
linked to:
APG III classification
APG IV system ⓘ |
| reproductiveType | flowering plants ⓘ |
| subclass |
Asteridae
ⓘ
linked to:
Asterids
|
| taxonomicRank | order ⓘ |
| typeFamily | Aquifoliaceae ⓘ |
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: Aquifoliales Description of subject: Aquifoliales is an order of flowering plants that includes holly (Ilex) and several related woody families within the asterid clade.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.