Atropa
E419004
Atropa is a small genus of highly poisonous flowering plants best known for deadly nightshade, historically used as both a medicine and a toxin.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Belladonna | 4 |
| Atropa canonical | 2 |
| Atropa belladonna | 2 |
| Atropa acuminata | 1 |
| Atropa baetica | 1 |
| Atropa caucasica | 1 |
| Atropa komarovii | 1 |
| Atropa pallidiflora | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4161904 — 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: Atropa Context triple: [Solanaceae, includesGenus, Atropa]
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A.
Datura
Datura is a genus of flowering plants known for its large, trumpet-shaped blooms and highly toxic, hallucinogenic properties.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Mandragora
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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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: Atropa Target entity description: Atropa is a small genus of highly poisonous flowering plants best known for deadly nightshade, historically used as both a medicine and a toxin.
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A.
Datura
Datura is a genus of flowering plants known for its large, trumpet-shaped blooms and highly toxic, hallucinogenic properties.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Mandragora
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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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 (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
plant genus
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| belongsToSubfamily | Solanoideae ⓘ |
| class | Magnoliopsida ⓘ |
| commonName | deadly nightshade genus ⓘ |
| containsCompound |
atropine
ⓘ
hyoscyamine ⓘ scopolamine ⓘ tropane alkaloids ⓘ |
| describedInYear | 1753 ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | Carl Linnaeus ⓘ |
| dispersal | animal-dispersed berries ⓘ |
| division | Magnoliophyta ⓘ |
| family | Solanaceae ⓘ |
| flowerType | bell-shaped flowers ⓘ |
| fruitType | berry ⓘ |
| growthForm | herbaceous perennial ⓘ |
| habitat |
mountain slopes
ⓘ
scrub ⓘ woodlands ⓘ |
| hasSpecies |
Atropa acuminata
ⓘ
linked to:
Atropa
Atropa baetica ⓘ
linked to:
Atropa
Atropa belladonna ⓘ
linked to:
Atropa
Atropa caucasica ⓘ
linked to:
Atropa
Atropa komarovii ⓘ
linked to:
Atropa
Atropa pallidiflora ⓘ
linked to:
Atropa
|
| hasUse |
antispasmodic drugs (via tropane alkaloids)
ⓘ
ophthalmology (pupil dilation via atropine) ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| leafType | broad leaves ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Atropos
ⓘ
the Fate who cuts the thread of life ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Central Asia
ⓘ
Europe ⓘ North Africa ⓘ Western Asia ⓘ |
| order | Solanales ⓘ |
| photosyntheticPathway | C3 ⓘ |
| pollination | insect-pollinated ⓘ |
| reproductiveStrategy | sexual reproduction via seeds ⓘ |
| risk |
can cause fatal poisoning in humans
ⓘ
toxic to livestock ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| toxicity | highly poisonous ⓘ |
| typeSpecies |
Atropa belladonna
ⓘ
linked to:
Atropa
|
| usedFor |
medicinal purposes (historical)
ⓘ
poison ⓘ |
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: Atropa Description of subject: Atropa is a small genus of highly poisonous flowering plants best known for deadly nightshade, historically used as both a medicine and a toxin.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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