Datiscaceae
E428598
Datiscaceae is a small family of flowering plants known for its herbaceous species, such as Datisca, that often exhibit unusual reproductive traits like dioecy and are native to regions in Eurasia and North America.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Datiscaceae canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4272803 — 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: Datiscaceae Context triple: [Cucurbitales, includesFamily, Datiscaceae]
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A.
Menispermaceae
Menispermaceae is a family of mostly tropical climbing plants known for their often toxic alkaloids and distinctive curved or crescent-shaped seeds.
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B.
Lardizabalaceae
Lardizabalaceae is a small family of mostly woody, often climbing flowering plants known for their ornamental foliage and sometimes edible fruits, native primarily to East Asia and the Andes.
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C.
Ulmaceae
Ulmaceae is a family of flowering trees and shrubs best known for including the elms, which are widespread in temperate regions.
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D.
Vitaceae
Vitaceae is a family of flowering plants best known for grapevines, many of which produce edible grapes and are cultivated worldwide for fruit and wine.
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E.
Kirkiaceae
Kirkiaceae is a small family of flowering plants in the order Sapindales, comprising tropical trees and shrubs primarily found in Africa and nearby regions.
- 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: Datiscaceae Target entity description: Datiscaceae is a small family of flowering plants known for its herbaceous species, such as Datisca, that often exhibit unusual reproductive traits like dioecy and are native to regions in Eurasia and North America.
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A.
Menispermaceae
Menispermaceae is a family of mostly tropical climbing plants known for their often toxic alkaloids and distinctive curved or crescent-shaped seeds.
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B.
Lardizabalaceae
Lardizabalaceae is a small family of mostly woody, often climbing flowering plants known for their ornamental foliage and sometimes edible fruits, native primarily to East Asia and the Andes.
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C.
Ulmaceae
Ulmaceae is a family of flowering trees and shrubs best known for including the elms, which are widespread in temperate regions.
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D.
Vitaceae
Vitaceae is a family of flowering plants best known for grapevines, many of which produce edible grapes and are cultivated worldwide for fruit and wine.
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E.
Kirkiaceae
Kirkiaceae is a small family of flowering plants in the order Sapindales, comprising tropical trees and shrubs primarily found in Africa and nearby regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
plant family
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| clade |
Angiosperms
ⓘ
linked to:
Magnoliophyta
Eudicots ⓘ |
| commonName | Datisca family ⓘ |
| containsGenus |
Datisca
ⓘ
Octomeles ⓘ Tetrameles ⓘ |
| describedAs | small family of flowering plants ⓘ |
| distributionNote | disjunct distribution between Old World and New World ⓘ |
| economicUse | medicinal uses in some species ⓘ |
| familyRank | family ⓘ |
| floweringPlant | true ⓘ |
| flowerType | unisexual flowers ⓘ |
| fruitType | capsule ⓘ |
| growthForm | mostly herbaceous plants ⓘ |
| hasRepresentativeSpecies |
Datisca cannabina
ⓘ
Datisca glomerata ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| leafArrangement | alternate leaves ⓘ |
| leafType | pinnate leaves ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Eurasia
ⓘ
North America ⓘ |
| order | Cucurbitales ⓘ |
| photosyntheticPathway | C3 ⓘ |
| pollination | wind pollination ⓘ |
| reproductiveTrait |
dioecy
ⓘ
unusual sexual systems ⓘ |
| taxonomicStatus | currently accepted family in Cucurbitales ⓘ |
| typeGenus | Datisca ⓘ |
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: Datiscaceae Description of subject: Datiscaceae is a small family of flowering plants known for its herbaceous species, such as Datisca, that often exhibit unusual reproductive traits like dioecy and are native to regions in Eurasia and North America.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.