Mandragora
E416640
Mandragora is a small genus of often toxic, folklore-famous flowering plants known as mandrakes, traditionally associated with magical and medicinal uses.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mandragora officinarum | 2 |
| Mandragora canonical | 1 |
| Mandragora autumnalis | 1 |
| Mandragora caulescens | 1 |
| Mandragora chinghaiensis | 1 |
| Mandragora turcomanica | 1 |
| Mandrake | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4161909 — 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: Mandragora Context triple: [Solanaceae, includesGenus, Mandragora]
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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.
Angelica
Angelica is a cunning and resourceful pirate and former love interest of Jack Sparrow who plays a central role in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.
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C.
Cremera
Cremera is a small river in central Italy historically known as the site of battles between the ancient Etruscan city of Veii and early Rome.
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D.
Drymaea
Drymaea was an ancient Greek city-state located in the region of Phocis, known from classical historical and geographical accounts.
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E.
Valerian
Valerian is a space-traveling special agent and the central protagonist of the science fiction film "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets."
- 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: Mandragora Target entity description: Mandragora is a small genus of often toxic, folklore-famous flowering plants known as mandrakes, traditionally associated with magical and medicinal uses.
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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.
Angelica
Angelica is a cunning and resourceful pirate and former love interest of Jack Sparrow who plays a central role in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.
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C.
Cremera
Cremera is a small river in central Italy historically known as the site of battles between the ancient Etruscan city of Veii and early Rome.
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D.
Drymaea
Drymaea was an ancient Greek city-state located in the region of Phocis, known from classical historical and geographical accounts.
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E.
Valerian
Valerian is a space-traveling special agent and the central protagonist of the science fiction film "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
plant genus
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
love potions
ⓘ
magic ⓘ protective charms ⓘ witchcraft ⓘ |
| caution | potentially lethal in high doses ⓘ |
| clade |
Angiosperms
ⓘ
linked to:
Magnoliophyta
Eudicots ⓘ |
| commonName | mandrakes ⓘ |
| containsCompound |
atropine
ⓘ
hyoscyamine ⓘ scopolamine ⓘ tropane alkaloids ⓘ |
| cultivatedFor |
esoteric and occult use
ⓘ
ornamental purposes ⓘ |
| family | Solanaceae ⓘ |
| fruitColor |
orange
ⓘ
yellow ⓘ |
| hasEffect |
anticholinergic
ⓘ
hallucinogenic ⓘ sedative ⓘ |
| hasFlowerColor |
greenish-white
ⓘ
purple ⓘ |
| hasFlowerType | solitary flowers ⓘ |
| hasFruitType | berry ⓘ |
| hasGrowthForm | perennial herb ⓘ |
| hasLeafArrangement | basal rosette ⓘ |
| hasRootType | thick taproot ⓘ |
| hasSpecies |
Mandragora autumnalis
ⓘ
linked to:
Mandragora
Mandragora caulescens ⓘ
linked to:
Mandragora
Mandragora chinghaiensis ⓘ
linked to:
Mandragora
Mandragora officinarum ⓘ
linked to:
Mandragora
Mandragora turcomanica ⓘ
linked to:
Mandragora
|
| isFamousIn |
European folklore
ⓘ
Middle Eastern folklore ⓘ |
| isToxic | true ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
ancient medical texts
ⓘ
medieval herbals ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Himalayan region
ⓘ
Mediterranean region ⓘ Middle East ⓘ |
| order | Solanales ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| usedFor |
magical practices
ⓘ
ritual practices ⓘ traditional medicine ⓘ |
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: Mandragora Description of subject: Mandragora is a small genus of often toxic, folklore-famous flowering plants known as mandrakes, traditionally associated with magical and medicinal uses.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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