Stephania tetrandra
E321007
Stephania tetrandra is a climbing plant species in the moonseed family known for its traditional use in Chinese medicine, particularly for its anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stephania tetrandra canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3042727 — 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: Stephania tetrandra Context triple: [Menispermaceae, notableSpecies, Stephania tetrandra]
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A.
Sauncho Smilax
Sauncho Smilax is a quirky, maritime-obsessed lawyer who serves as a friend and legal advisor to private investigator Doc Sportello in Thomas Pynchon's novel "Inherent Vice."
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B.
Boehmeria
Boehmeria is a genus of flowering plants commonly known for species like ramie, which are cultivated for their strong, fibrous stems used in textile production.
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C.
Astragalus
Astragalus is a large and diverse genus of flowering plants in the legume family, commonly known as milkvetches and often noted for their ecological importance and use in traditional medicine.
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D.
Indigofera
Indigofera is a large genus of flowering legumes best known for species that produce natural indigo dye and are found in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide.
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E.
Phytolacca
Phytolacca is a genus of flowering plants, commonly known as pokeweeds, recognized for their often toxic berries and use in traditional medicine and dyes.
- 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: Stephania tetrandra Target entity description: Stephania tetrandra is a climbing plant species in the moonseed family known for its traditional use in Chinese medicine, particularly for its anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties.
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A.
Sauncho Smilax
Sauncho Smilax is a quirky, maritime-obsessed lawyer who serves as a friend and legal advisor to private investigator Doc Sportello in Thomas Pynchon's novel "Inherent Vice."
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B.
Boehmeria
Boehmeria is a genus of flowering plants commonly known for species like ramie, which are cultivated for their strong, fibrous stems used in textile production.
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C.
Astragalus
Astragalus is a large and diverse genus of flowering plants in the legume family, commonly known as milkvetches and often noted for their ecological importance and use in traditional medicine.
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D.
Indigofera
Indigofera is a large genus of flowering legumes best known for species that produce natural indigo dye and are found in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide.
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E.
Phytolacca
Phytolacca is a genus of flowering plants, commonly known as pokeweeds, recognized for their often toxic berries and use in traditional medicine and dyes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
climbing plant
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medicinal plant ⓘ plant species ⓘ |
| commonName | fang ji ⓘ |
| containsCompound |
fangchinoline
ⓘ
tetrandrine ⓘ |
| family | Menispermaceae ⓘ |
| genus | Stephania ⓘ |
| hasBioactivity | antihypertensive potential ⓘ |
| hasGrowthForm | twining vine ⓘ |
| hasPart | root ⓘ |
| hasProperty |
analgesic
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anti-inflammatory ⓘ |
| hasToxicity | potentially toxic in high doses ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| medicinalPart | root ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
China
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East Asia ⓘ |
| order | Ranunculales ⓘ |
| partOf | flora of China ⓘ |
| pharmacologicalEffect |
calcium channel blocking
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immunosuppressive activity ⓘ |
| photosyntheticPathway | C3 ⓘ |
| regulates | inflammatory response ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| usedAs | herbal medicine ⓘ |
| usedFor |
relief of pain
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treatment of edema ⓘ treatment of rheumatic conditions ⓘ |
| usedIn | traditional Chinese medicine ⓘ |
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: Stephania tetrandra Description of subject: Stephania tetrandra is a climbing plant species in the moonseed family known for its traditional use in Chinese medicine, particularly for its anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.