Tulipa
E386363
Tulipa is a genus of bulbous flowering plants best known for its colorful tulip blooms, widely cultivated as ornamental garden and cut flowers.
All labels observed (13)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tulip | 3 |
| Tulipa canonical | 2 |
| Tulipa gesneriana | 2 |
| Tulipa agenensis | 1 |
| Tulipa armena | 1 |
| Tulipa clusiana | 1 |
| Tulipa fosteriana | 1 |
| Tulipa greigii | 1 |
| Tulipa humilis | 1 |
| Tulipa kaufmanniana | 1 |
| Tulipa praestans | 1 |
| Tulipa tarda | 1 |
| Tulipa turkestanica | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3770701 — 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: Tulipa Context triple: [Semper Augustus, genus, Tulipa]
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A.
Tulips
"Tulips" is a confessional poem by Sylvia Plath that explores themes of identity, illness, and the tension between life and death through the speaker’s intense reaction to a bouquet of bright red tulips in a hospital room.
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B.
Lilium
Lilium is a genus of flowering plants known for its large, often fragrant, trumpet-shaped lilies commonly grown as ornamentals in gardens and used in floral arrangements.
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C.
Ranunculus
Ranunculus is a large genus of flowering plants commonly known as buttercups, characterized by their bright, glossy petals and widespread distribution in temperate regions.
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D.
Hyacinth
Hyacinth is a given name of Greek origin, historically associated with mythological and floral imagery and used for people of any gender.
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E.
Chrysanthemum
Chrysanthemum is a genus of flowering plants known for its showy, daisy-like blooms widely cultivated as ornamentals and used in traditional cultures, especially in East Asia.
- 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: Tulipa Target entity description: Tulipa is a genus of bulbous flowering plants best known for its colorful tulip blooms, widely cultivated as ornamental garden and cut flowers.
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A.
Tulips
"Tulips" is a confessional poem by Sylvia Plath that explores themes of identity, illness, and the tension between life and death through the speaker’s intense reaction to a bouquet of bright red tulips in a hospital room.
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B.
Lilium
Lilium is a genus of flowering plants known for its large, often fragrant, trumpet-shaped lilies commonly grown as ornamentals in gardens and used in floral arrangements.
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C.
Ranunculus
Ranunculus is a large genus of flowering plants commonly known as buttercups, characterized by their bright, glossy petals and widespread distribution in temperate regions.
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D.
Hyacinth
Hyacinth is a given name of Greek origin, historically associated with mythological and floral imagery and used for people of any gender.
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E.
Chrysanthemum
Chrysanthemum is a genus of flowering plants known for its showy, daisy-like blooms widely cultivated as ornamentals and used in traditional cultures, especially in East Asia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
genus
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| clade | monocots ⓘ |
| class | Liliopsida ⓘ |
| commonName | tulip ⓘ |
| cultivatedFor |
cut flower production
ⓘ
ornamental garden use ⓘ |
| division | Magnoliophyta ⓘ |
| family | Liliaceae ⓘ |
| flowerColor |
orange
ⓘ
pink ⓘ purple ⓘ red ⓘ white ⓘ yellow ⓘ |
| floweringSeason | spring ⓘ |
| hasHybridCultivars | garden tulips ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Tulipa agenensis
ⓘ
linked to:
Tulipa
Tulipa armena ⓘ
linked to:
Tulipa
Tulipa clusiana ⓘ
linked to:
Tulipa
Tulipa fosteriana ⓘ
linked to:
Tulipa
Tulipa gesneriana ⓘ
linked to:
Tulipa
Tulipa greigii ⓘ
linked to:
Tulipa
Tulipa humilis ⓘ
linked to:
Tulipa
Tulipa kaufmanniana ⓘ
linked to:
Tulipa
Tulipa praestans ⓘ
linked to:
Tulipa
Tulipa sylvestris ⓘ Tulipa tarda ⓘ
linked to:
Tulipa
Tulipa turkestanica ⓘ
linked to:
Tulipa
|
| hasStructure |
bulb
ⓘ
erect flowering stem ⓘ linear leaves ⓘ |
| introducedTo |
North America
ⓘ
Western Europe ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| lifeForm | bulbous perennial ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Anatolia
ⓘ
Central Asia ⓘ Himalayas ⓘ Middle East ⓘ North Africa ⓘ Southern Europe ⓘ |
| notableRegionOfCultivation | Netherlands ⓘ |
| numberOfSpecies | over 70 species ⓘ |
| order | Liliales ⓘ |
| parentTaxon | Liliaceae ⓘ |
| pollination | insect pollination ⓘ |
| reproduction |
asexual reproduction by bulbs
ⓘ
sexual reproduction by seeds ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| typeSpecies |
Tulipa gesneriana
ⓘ
linked to:
Tulipa
|
| uses |
ornamental plant
ⓘ
symbolic flower in art and culture ⓘ |
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: Tulipa Description of subject: Tulipa is a genus of bulbous flowering plants best known for its colorful tulip blooms, widely cultivated as ornamental garden and cut flowers.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Tulipa
linked to: Tulipa