Datura
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Datura is a genus of flowering plants known for its large, trumpet-shaped blooms and highly toxic, hallucinogenic properties.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Datura canonical | 6 |
| Datura stramonium | 2 |
| Datura (by pendulous flowers) | 1 |
| Jimson Weed | 1 |
| thorn apple | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4161903 — 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: Datura Context triple: [Solanaceae, includesGenus, Datura]
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A.
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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B.
Cocculus carolinus
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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C.
Aconitum
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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D.
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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E.
Anamirta
Anamirta is a genus of tropical climbing plants known for species that produce toxic alkaloids historically used as fish poisons and insecticides.
- 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: Datura Target entity description: Datura is a genus of flowering plants known for its large, trumpet-shaped blooms and highly toxic, hallucinogenic properties.
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A.
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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B.
Cocculus carolinus
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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C.
Aconitum
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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D.
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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E.
Anamirta
Anamirta is a genus of tropical climbing plants known for species that produce toxic alkaloids historically used as fish poisons and insecticides.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
genus
ⓘ
plant genus ⓘ |
| clade |
Angiosperms
ⓘ
linked to:
Magnoliophyta
Asterids ⓘ Eudicots ⓘ |
| commonName |
devil’s trumpet
ⓘ
devil’s weed ⓘ jimsonweed ⓘ thorn apple ⓘ
linked to:
Datura
|
| containsCompound |
atropine
ⓘ
hyoscyamine ⓘ scopolamine ⓘ tropane alkaloids ⓘ |
| family | Solanaceae ⓘ |
| fruitType | spiny capsule ⓘ |
| growthForm |
herbaceous plant
ⓘ
shrub-like plant ⓘ |
| habitat |
disturbed soils
ⓘ
roadsides ⓘ waste places ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
entire plant is poisonous
ⓘ
flowering plant ⓘ hallucinogenic ⓘ highly toxic ⓘ large trumpet-shaped flowers ⓘ night-blooming flowers ⓘ strong fragrance ⓘ |
| introducedRange |
Africa
ⓘ
Asia ⓘ Australia ⓘ Europe ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| legalStatus | regulated or controlled in some countries due to toxicity ⓘ |
| nativeRange | Americas ⓘ |
| order | Solanales ⓘ |
| pollination |
by insects
ⓘ
by moths ⓘ |
| reproduction | by seeds ⓘ |
| seedCharacteristic | numerous seeds ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| toxicEffect |
delirium
ⓘ
dry mouth ⓘ hallucinations ⓘ hyperthermia ⓘ potentially fatal poisoning ⓘ pupil dilation ⓘ tachycardia ⓘ urinary retention ⓘ |
| usedFor | traditional medicine (with high risk of toxicity) ⓘ |
| warning | not safe for recreational use ⓘ |
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: Datura Description of subject: Datura is a genus of flowering plants known for its large, trumpet-shaped blooms and highly toxic, hallucinogenic properties.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Datura
linked to: Datura
linked to: Datura
linked to: Datura
linked to: Datura
subject linked to:
jimson weed
subject linked to:
album "To Venus and Back"