Cocculus carolinus
E324264
Cocculus carolinus is a woody climbing vine native to the southeastern United States, known for its bright red berries and use as an ornamental plant.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cocculus | 1 |
| Cocculus carolinus canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3042725 — 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: Cocculus carolinus Context triple: [Menispermaceae, notableSpecies, Cocculus carolinus]
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A.
Tinospora
Tinospora is a genus of climbing shrubs known for their medicinally used stems and widespread occurrence in tropical and subtropical regions.
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B.
Cissampelos
Cissampelos is a genus of climbing flowering plants known for their twining vines and traditional medicinal uses, belonging to the moonseed family.
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C.
Petiveria
Petiveria is a small genus of flowering plants, best known for the species Petiveria alliacea, a pungent herb widely used in traditional medicine and folk practices in the Americas.
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D.
Stephania tetrandra
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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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: Cocculus carolinus Target entity description: Cocculus carolinus is a woody climbing vine native to the southeastern United States, known for its bright red berries and use as an ornamental plant.
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A.
Tinospora
Tinospora is a genus of climbing shrubs known for their medicinally used stems and widespread occurrence in tropical and subtropical regions.
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B.
Cissampelos
Cissampelos is a genus of climbing flowering plants known for their twining vines and traditional medicinal uses, belonging to the moonseed family.
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C.
Petiveria
Petiveria is a small genus of flowering plants, best known for the species Petiveria alliacea, a pungent herb widely used in traditional medicine and folk practices in the Americas.
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D.
Stephania tetrandra
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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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 (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
plant species
ⓘ
woody vine ⓘ |
| attracts | birds ⓘ |
| climbingMethod | twining stems ⓘ |
| commonName |
Carolina snailseed
ⓘ
red-berried moonseed ⓘ |
| dispersalMethod | bird-dispersed seeds ⓘ |
| family | Menispermaceae ⓘ |
| flowerColor | greenish-white ⓘ |
| flowerSex | dioecious ⓘ |
| fruitColor | bright red ⓘ |
| fruitType | berry-like drupe ⓘ |
| genus |
Cocculus
ⓘ
linked to:
Cocculus carolinus
|
| growthForm | climbing vine ⓘ |
| habitat |
fence rows
ⓘ
stream banks ⓘ thickets ⓘ woodland edges ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| leafArrangement | alternate ⓘ |
| leafShape |
cordate
ⓘ
ovate ⓘ |
| leafType | simple leaf ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Alabama
ⓘ
Arizona ⓘ Arkansas ⓘ Florida ⓘ Georgia ⓘ Illinois ⓘ Indiana ⓘ Kansas ⓘ Kentucky ⓘ Louisiana ⓘ Mississippi ⓘ Missouri ⓘ New Mexico ⓘ North Carolina ⓘ Oklahoma ⓘ South Carolina ⓘ Tennessee ⓘ Texas ⓘ Virginia ⓘ northern Mexico ⓘ south-central United States ⓘ southeastern United States ⓘ
linked to:
Southern United States
|
| order | Ranunculales ⓘ |
| seedShape | snail-shaped ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| toxicity | fruit considered poisonous to humans ⓘ |
| usedAs | ornamental plant ⓘ |
| woodiness | woody ⓘ |
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: Cocculus carolinus Description of subject: Cocculus carolinus is a woody climbing vine native to the southeastern United States, known for its bright red berries and use as an ornamental plant.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Cocculus carolinus