Grossulariaceae
E458688
Grossulariaceae is a small family of flowering plants best known for the currants and gooseberries it contains.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Grossulariaceae canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4633465 — 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: Grossulariaceae Context triple: [Saxifragales, includesFamily, Grossulariaceae]
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A.
Welwitschiaceae
Welwitschiaceae is a small family of gymnosperms best known for the bizarre desert plant Welwitschia, which has only two continuously growing leaves and can live for centuries in the Namib Desert.
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B.
Crypteroniaceae
Crypteroniaceae is a small family of flowering trees and shrubs native mainly to tropical Asia, classified within the order Myrtales.
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C.
Octoknemaceae
Octoknemaceae is a small family of flowering plants classified within the order Cucurbitales.
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D.
Biebersteiniaceae
Biebersteiniaceae is a small family of flowering plants comprising the genus Biebersteinia, known from Eurasian regions and placed within the order Sapindales.
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E.
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.
- 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: Grossulariaceae Target entity description: Grossulariaceae is a small family of flowering plants best known for the currants and gooseberries it contains.
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A.
Welwitschiaceae
Welwitschiaceae is a small family of gymnosperms best known for the bizarre desert plant Welwitschia, which has only two continuously growing leaves and can live for centuries in the Namib Desert.
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B.
Crypteroniaceae
Crypteroniaceae is a small family of flowering trees and shrubs native mainly to tropical Asia, classified within the order Myrtales.
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C.
Octoknemaceae
Octoknemaceae is a small family of flowering plants classified within the order Cucurbitales.
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D.
Biebersteiniaceae
Biebersteiniaceae is a small family of flowering plants comprising the genus Biebersteinia, known from Eurasian regions and placed within the order Sapindales.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
angiosperm family
ⓘ
plant family ⓘ taxon ⓘ |
| clade |
Angiosperms
ⓘ
linked to:
Magnoliophyta
Eudicots ⓘ |
| commonName | gooseberry family ⓘ |
| containsGenus |
Grossularia
ⓘ
Lonicera grossulariifolia (historically placed) ⓘ Ribes ⓘ Ribesia ⓘ |
| describedAs | small family of flowering plants ⓘ |
| distribution |
some species in South America
ⓘ
temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere ⓘ |
| economicUse |
edible fruits
ⓘ
ornamental plants ⓘ |
| etymology | derived from genus name Grossularia, related to gooseberries ⓘ |
| familyAuthority | DC. ⓘ |
| flowerSymmetry | radial symmetry ⓘ |
| flowerType | bisexual flowers ⓘ |
| fruitType | berry ⓘ |
| growthForm | shrubs ⓘ |
| hasNotableSpecies |
Ribes nigrum
ⓘ
linked to:
Ribes
Ribes rubrum ⓘ
linked to:
Ribes
Ribes uva-crispa ⓘ
linked to:
Ribes
|
| historicallyClassifiedIn |
Saxifragaceae (in older systems)
ⓘ
linked to:
Saxifragaceae
|
| includesCommonCrop |
currants
ⓘ
gooseberries ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Latin ⓘ |
| leafArrangement | alternate leaves ⓘ |
| leafMargin | often lobed or toothed ⓘ |
| leafType | simple leaves ⓘ |
| order | Saxifragales ⓘ |
| ovaryPosition | inferior ovary ⓘ |
| photosyntheticPathway | C3 ⓘ |
| pollination | insect-pollinated ⓘ |
| recognizedBy | APG IV system ⓘ |
| taxonRank | family ⓘ |
| typeGenus | Ribes ⓘ |
| usedFor |
desserts
ⓘ
jams and jellies ⓘ juices ⓘ |
| woodyOrHerbaceous | woody ⓘ |
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: Grossulariaceae Description of subject: Grossulariaceae is a small family of flowering plants best known for the currants and gooseberries it contains.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.