The Plant List
E357962
The Plant List is a comprehensive online database that aims to provide a working list of all known plant species, serving as a key reference for botanical nomenclature and taxonomy.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Plant List canonical | 7 |
| The Plant List (historical) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3423447 — 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: The Plant List Context triple: [Dirachma, recognizedBy, The Plant List]
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A.
Tropicos botanical database
Tropicos botanical database is an online resource maintained by the Missouri Botanical Garden that provides comprehensive taxonomic and nomenclatural information on plant species worldwide.
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B.
Angiosperm Phylogeny Group
The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group is an international collaboration of botanists that develops and updates widely used classification systems for flowering plants based on molecular phylogenetic evidence.
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C.
International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants
The International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants is the globally accepted set of rules and recommendations that governs the scientific naming and classification of these groups of organisms.
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D.
Wikispecies
Wikispecies is a Wikimedia Foundation project that serves as a free, collaborative directory of species and taxonomic information.
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E.
De Candolle system of plant classification
The De Candolle system of plant classification is an early 19th-century botanical taxonomy that organized plants based on natural relationships and morphological characteristics, significantly influencing later classification systems.
- 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: The Plant List Target entity description: The Plant List is a comprehensive online database that aims to provide a working list of all known plant species, serving as a key reference for botanical nomenclature and taxonomy.
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A.
Tropicos botanical database
Tropicos botanical database is an online resource maintained by the Missouri Botanical Garden that provides comprehensive taxonomic and nomenclatural information on plant species worldwide.
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B.
Angiosperm Phylogeny Group
The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group is an international collaboration of botanists that develops and updates widely used classification systems for flowering plants based on molecular phylogenetic evidence.
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C.
International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants
The International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants is the globally accepted set of rules and recommendations that governs the scientific naming and classification of these groups of organisms.
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D.
Wikispecies
Wikispecies is a Wikimedia Foundation project that serves as a free, collaborative directory of species and taxonomic information.
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E.
De Candolle system of plant classification
The De Candolle system of plant classification is an early 19th-century botanical taxonomy that organized plants based on natural relationships and morphological characteristics, significantly influencing later classification systems.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
botanical reference work
ⓘ
online database ⓘ taxonomic database ⓘ |
| abbreviation | TPL ⓘ |
| aim | to provide a working list of all known plant species ⓘ |
| contains |
accepted plant names
ⓘ
scientific names of plant species ⓘ synonyms of plant names ⓘ unresolved plant names ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| describedAs | a working list of all known plant species ⓘ |
| developer |
Missouri Botanical Garden
ⓘ
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew ⓘ
linked to:
Kew
|
| focus |
bryophytes
ⓘ
vascular plants ⓘ |
| genre | scientific database ⓘ |
| hasPart |
family-level browsing interface
ⓘ
search interface for plant names ⓘ |
| inception | 2010 ⓘ |
| isAccessibleVia | World Wide Web ⓘ |
| isUsedBy |
biodiversity informatics projects
ⓘ
botanists ⓘ conservationists ⓘ taxonomists ⓘ |
| kingdomCovered | Plantae ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| license |
Creative Commons Attribution
ⓘ
linked to:
Creative Commons license
|
| name | The Plant List ⓘ |
| provides |
bibliographic information for plant names
ⓘ
taxonomic status for plant names ⓘ |
| publisher |
Missouri Botanical Garden
ⓘ
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew ⓘ
linked to:
Kew
|
| replacedBy | World Flora Online ⓘ |
| status | static archive ⓘ |
| subject |
botany
ⓘ
plant nomenclature ⓘ plant taxonomy ⓘ |
| taxonomicScope |
infraspecific taxa
ⓘ
species ⓘ |
| updatePolicy | no further updates planned ⓘ |
| usesDataFrom |
African Plant Database
ⓘ
International Plant Names Index ⓘ Tropicos ⓘ
linked to:
Tropicos botanical database
other regional and national plant databases ⓘ |
| version |
Version 1.0
ⓘ
Version 1.1 ⓘ |
| versionPublicationDate |
2010-12
ⓘ
2013-09 ⓘ |
| website | http://www.theplantlist.org/ ⓘ |
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: The Plant List Description of subject: The Plant List is a comprehensive online database that aims to provide a working list of all known plant species, serving as a key reference for botanical nomenclature and taxonomy.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Plant List