Roundup
E558518
Roundup is a widely used glyphosate-based herbicide known for its role in modern industrial agriculture and the controversies surrounding its environmental and health impacts.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Roundup canonical | 1 |
| Roundup herbicide | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5979529 — 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: Roundup Context triple: [Monsanto Company, product, Roundup]
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A.
Nitram
Nitram is a 2021 Australian psychological drama film directed by Justin Kurzel that explores the events leading up to the 1996 Port Arthur massacre.
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B.
Weeds
Weeds is a 1987 drama film starring Matthew Modine that explores the lives of prison inmates who stage a theatrical production as a path to redemption.
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C.
Weeds
Weeds is a dark comedy-drama television series that follows a widowed suburban mother who turns to selling marijuana to support her family.
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D.
Tetro
Tetro is a 2009 drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, in which Maribel Verdú plays a key supporting role in a story about fractured family relationships and artistic rivalry in Buenos Aires.
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E.
Harvest
Harvest is a 1972 folk-rock album by Neil Young, widely regarded as one of his signature works and a classic of the singer-songwriter era.
- 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: Roundup Target entity description: Roundup is a widely used glyphosate-based herbicide known for its role in modern industrial agriculture and the controversies surrounding its environmental and health impacts.
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A.
Nitram
Nitram is a 2021 Australian psychological drama film directed by Justin Kurzel that explores the events leading up to the 1996 Port Arthur massacre.
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B.
Weeds
Weeds is a 1987 drama film starring Matthew Modine that explores the lives of prison inmates who stage a theatrical production as a path to redemption.
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C.
Weeds
Weeds is a dark comedy-drama television series that follows a widowed suburban mother who turns to selling marijuana to support her family.
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D.
Tetro
Tetro is a 2009 drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, in which Maribel Verdú plays a key supporting role in a story about fractured family relationships and artistic rivalry in Buenos Aires.
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E.
Harvest
Harvest is a 1972 folk-rock album by Neil Young, widely regarded as one of his signature works and a classic of the singer-songwriter era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
glyphosate-based herbicide
ⓘ
herbicide brand ⓘ |
| applicationMethod | foliar spray ⓘ |
| appliedTo |
crops
ⓘ
non-crop areas ⓘ |
| associatedWith | genetically modified glyphosate-tolerant crops ⓘ |
| associatedWithPractice | no-till farming systems ⓘ |
| classifiedAs | probably carcinogenic to humans by IARC (glyphosate) in 2015 ⓘ |
| contains | surfactants in many formulations ⓘ |
| controversy |
alleged links to non-Hodgkin lymphoma
ⓘ
development of herbicide-resistant weeds ⓘ effects on biodiversity ⓘ effects on soil microbiota ⓘ potential carcinogenicity ⓘ water contamination ⓘ |
| criticizedBy |
environmental organizations
ⓘ
public health advocates ⓘ |
| defendedBy |
manufacturer-sponsored studies
ⓘ
some regulatory agencies ⓘ |
| developedBy | Monsanto Company ⓘ |
| economicRole | major revenue source for Monsanto prior to Bayer acquisition ⓘ |
| formulationType | systemic herbicide ⓘ |
| hasActiveIngredient | glyphosate ⓘ |
| introducedInYear | 1974 ⓘ |
| involvedIn | mass tort litigation in the United States ⓘ |
| isNonSelective | true ⓘ |
| legalOutcome |
large settlement agreements by Bayer
ⓘ
multiple jury verdicts awarding damages to plaintiffs ⓘ |
| marketedAs | broad-spectrum weed killer ⓘ |
| modeOfAction | inhibits EPSP synthase enzyme ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
Bayer AG
ⓘ
linked to:
Bayer
|
| packagingForm |
concentrate
ⓘ
ready-to-use spray ⓘ |
| regulatedBy |
European Food Safety Authority
ⓘ
United States Environmental Protection Agency ⓘ |
| regulatoryStatus | approved in many countries with restrictions ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
environmental impact assessments
ⓘ
epidemiological studies ⓘ toxicology studies ⓘ |
| surfactantControversy | toxicity of formulation versus glyphosate alone ⓘ |
| targetsPathway | shikimate pathway in plants ⓘ |
| usedFor | weed control ⓘ |
| usedIn |
agriculture
ⓘ
home gardening ⓘ industrial agriculture ⓘ |
| usedOnCrop |
canola
ⓘ
corn ⓘ cotton ⓘ soybean ⓘ sugar beet ⓘ |
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: Roundup Description of subject: Roundup is a widely used glyphosate-based herbicide known for its role in modern industrial agriculture and the controversies surrounding its environmental and health impacts.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Roundup