Sterculiaceae
E319691
Sterculiaceae is a former family of flowering plants, now largely included within Malvaceae, that comprised mostly tropical trees and shrubs such as cacao and kola.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sterculiaceae canonical | 3 |
| Sterculioideae | 2 |
| Sterculiaceae (historically, now largely in Malvaceae) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3018888 — 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: Sterculiaceae Context triple: [Malvids, includesFamily, Sterculiaceae]
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A.
Menispermaceae
Menispermaceae is a family of mostly tropical climbing plants known for their often toxic alkaloids and distinctive curved or crescent-shaped seeds.
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B.
Lardizabalaceae
Lardizabalaceae is a small family of mostly woody, often climbing flowering plants known for their ornamental foliage and sometimes edible fruits, native primarily to East Asia and the Andes.
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C.
Barbeyaceae
Barbeyaceae is a small family of flowering plants in the order Rosales, comprising shrubs or small trees native to arid and semi-arid regions of East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
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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.
Basellaceae
Basellaceae is a small family of flowering plants, including mostly tropical climbing herbs and vines such as Malabar spinach, known for their succulent stems and edible leaves.
- 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: Sterculiaceae Target entity description: Sterculiaceae is a former family of flowering plants, now largely included within Malvaceae, that comprised mostly tropical trees and shrubs such as cacao and kola.
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A.
Menispermaceae
Menispermaceae is a family of mostly tropical climbing plants known for their often toxic alkaloids and distinctive curved or crescent-shaped seeds.
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B.
Lardizabalaceae
Lardizabalaceae is a small family of mostly woody, often climbing flowering plants known for their ornamental foliage and sometimes edible fruits, native primarily to East Asia and the Andes.
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C.
Barbeyaceae
Barbeyaceae is a small family of flowering plants in the order Rosales, comprising shrubs or small trees native to arid and semi-arid regions of East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
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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.
Basellaceae
Basellaceae is a small family of flowering plants, including mostly tropical climbing herbs and vines such as Malabar spinach, known for their succulent stems and edible leaves.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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: Sterculiaceae Description of subject: Sterculiaceae is a former family of flowering plants, now largely included within Malvaceae, that comprised mostly tropical trees and shrubs such as cacao and kola.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sterculiaceae