Aconitum
E383052
Aconitum is a genus of highly toxic flowering plants, often called monkshood or wolfsbane, known for their hood-shaped blue to purple flowers and historical use as poisons.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Aconitum canonical | 2 |
| Aconitum carmichaelii | 1 |
| Aconitum ferox | 1 |
| Aconitum lycoctonum | 1 |
| Aconitum napellus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3705103 — 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: Aconitum Context triple: [Ranunculaceae, containsGenus, Aconitum]
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A.
Monk’s Hood
Monk’s Hood is a historical mystery novel by Ellis Peters featuring the medieval sleuth Brother Cadfael, set in 12th-century Shrewsbury.
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B.
Papaver
Papaver is a genus of flowering plants best known for the poppy, which includes species cultivated for their showy blooms and for producing opium and culinary seeds.
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C.
Chelidonium
Chelidonium is a small genus of flowering plants, commonly known as celandines, recognized for their yellow latex and traditional medicinal uses.
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D.
Argemone
Argemone is a genus of prickly poppy plants known for their spiny foliage and showy, often yellow or white flowers, native mainly to the Americas.
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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: Aconitum Target entity description: Aconitum is a genus of highly toxic flowering plants, often called monkshood or wolfsbane, known for their hood-shaped blue to purple flowers and historical use as poisons.
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A.
Monk’s Hood
Monk’s Hood is a historical mystery novel by Ellis Peters featuring the medieval sleuth Brother Cadfael, set in 12th-century Shrewsbury.
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B.
Papaver
Papaver is a genus of flowering plants best known for the poppy, which includes species cultivated for their showy blooms and for producing opium and culinary seeds.
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C.
Chelidonium
Chelidonium is a small genus of flowering plants, commonly known as celandines, recognized for their yellow latex and traditional medicinal uses.
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D.
Argemone
Argemone is a genus of prickly poppy plants known for their spiny foliage and showy, often yellow or white flowers, native mainly to the Americas.
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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 (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
plant genus
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| commonName |
aconite
ⓘ
devil’s helmet ⓘ monkshood ⓘ wolfsbane ⓘ |
| containsCompound |
aconitine
ⓘ
hypaconitine ⓘ mesaconitine ⓘ |
| domain | Eukaryota ⓘ |
| family | Ranunculaceae ⓘ |
| growthForm | herbaceous perennial ⓘ |
| habitat |
moist meadows
ⓘ
mountain slopes ⓘ woodland margins ⓘ |
| hasFlowerColor |
blue
ⓘ
purple ⓘ |
| hasFlowerShape | hood-shaped ⓘ |
| hasFlowerType | zygomorphic flower ⓘ |
| hasSpecies |
Aconitum carmichaelii
ⓘ
linked to:
Aconitum
Aconitum ferox ⓘ
linked to:
Aconitum
Aconitum lycoctonum ⓘ
linked to:
Aconitum
Aconitum napellus ⓘ
linked to:
Aconitum
|
| historicalUse |
arrow poison
ⓘ
poison for hunting ⓘ poison for warfare ⓘ poison for wolves ⓘ |
| is |
flowering plant
ⓘ
highly toxic ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| leafType | palmately divided leaves ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Asia
ⓘ
Europe ⓘ North America ⓘ mountainous regions of the Northern Hemisphere ⓘ |
| order | Ranunculales ⓘ |
| pollinatedBy |
bees
ⓘ
bumblebees ⓘ |
| regulation | cultivation and sale restricted in some countries ⓘ |
| reproduction |
by seeds
ⓘ
by tuberous roots ⓘ |
| risk | potentially fatal poisoning ⓘ |
| symptomOfPoisoning |
cardiac arrhythmia
ⓘ
nausea and vomiting ⓘ numbness and tingling ⓘ respiratory paralysis ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| toxicityRoute |
ingestion
ⓘ
mucous membrane contact ⓘ skin absorption ⓘ |
| toxicTo |
humans
ⓘ
livestock ⓘ pets ⓘ |
| usedAs | ornamental plant ⓘ |
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: Aconitum Description of subject: Aconitum is a genus of highly toxic flowering plants, often called monkshood or wolfsbane, known for their hood-shaped blue to purple flowers and historical use as poisons.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Aconitum
linked to: Aconitum
linked to: Aconitum
linked to: Aconitum