Plants of the World Online
E357963
Plants of the World Online is a comprehensive online database and reference resource managed by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, providing taxonomic and distribution information on plant species worldwide.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Plants of the World Online canonical | 8 |
| Index Kewensis | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3423448 — 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: Plants of the World Online Context triple: [Dirachma, recognizedBy, Plants of the World Online]
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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.
Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden
Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden is a scholarly series of botanical works focusing on the taxonomy, classification, and systematic study of plants.
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D.
Phytologia
Phytologia is a scientific journal focused on the taxonomy, systematics, and evolution of plants.
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E.
Phytologia
Phytologia is a scientific work by Erasmus Darwin that explores plant physiology, classification, and the relationship between plants and their environment.
- 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: Plants of the World Online Target entity description: Plants of the World Online is a comprehensive online database and reference resource managed by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, providing taxonomic and distribution information on plant species worldwide.
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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.
Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden
Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden is a scholarly series of botanical works focusing on the taxonomy, classification, and systematic study of plants.
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D.
Phytologia
Phytologia is a scientific journal focused on the taxonomy, systematics, and evolution of plants.
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E.
Phytologia
Phytologia is a scientific work by Erasmus Darwin that explores plant physiology, classification, and the relationship between plants and their environment.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biodiversity informatics resource
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botanical reference work ⓘ online database ⓘ taxonomic database ⓘ |
| abbreviation | POWO ⓘ |
| accessMode | World Wide Web ⓘ |
| accessPolicy | open access ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
provide an authoritative global resource for plant species
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support biodiversity assessments ⓘ support botanical research ⓘ support plant conservation ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| covers |
angiosperms
ⓘ
ferns ⓘ global plant diversity ⓘ gymnosperms ⓘ lycophytes ⓘ |
| dataSource |
Kew herbarium collections
ⓘ
linked to:
Kew
Kew taxonomic literature ⓘ
linked to:
Index Kewensis
collaborating institutions ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
accepted plant names
ⓘ
plant families ⓘ plant genera ⓘ plant species ⓘ synonyms of plant names ⓘ |
| hasPart |
bibliographic references
ⓘ
distribution data ⓘ nomenclatural information ⓘ species descriptions ⓘ synonymy data ⓘ taxonomic backbone ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Kew Science digital resources ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| license |
Creative Commons Attribution
ⓘ
linked to:
Creative Commons license
|
| mainSubject |
global flora
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plant distribution ⓘ plant nomenclature ⓘ plant taxonomy ⓘ vascular plants ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
ⓘ
linked to:
Kew
|
| operator |
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
ⓘ
linked to:
Kew
|
| publisher |
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
ⓘ
linked to:
Kew
|
| usedBy |
botanists
ⓘ
conservationists ⓘ ecologists ⓘ educators ⓘ policy makers ⓘ students ⓘ taxonomists ⓘ |
| website | https://powo.science.kew.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: Plants of the World Online Description of subject: Plants of the World Online is a comprehensive online database and reference resource managed by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, providing taxonomic and distribution information on plant species worldwide.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Plants of the World Online