Polygonaceae
E55998
Polygonaceae is a family of flowering plants commonly known as the knotweed or buckwheat family, which includes herbs, shrubs, and vines such as buckwheat, sorrel, and rhubarb.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Polygonaceae canonical | 26 |
| Persicaria | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T435112 — 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: Polygonaceae Context triple: [Caryophyllales, containsTaxon, Polygonaceae]
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A.
Amaranthaceae
Amaranthaceae is a large family of flowering plants that includes amaranths, beets, spinach, and many halophytic and weedy species found worldwide.
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B.
Urticaceae
Urticaceae is a family of flowering plants commonly known as the nettle family, which includes herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees often characterized by stinging hairs and small, greenish flowers.
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C.
Caryophyllaceae
Caryophyllaceae is a large family of flowering plants, commonly known as the pink or carnation family, that includes many herbaceous species found worldwide, especially in temperate regions.
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D.
Elaeagnaceae
Elaeagnaceae is a small family of flowering plants, commonly known as the oleaster or silverberry family, that includes shrubs and small trees often adapted to dry or nutrient-poor soils.
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E.
Barbeyaceae
Barbeyaceae is a small family of flowering plants in the order Rosales, comprising shrubs or small trees native to arid and semi-arid regions of East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
- 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: Polygonaceae Target entity description: Polygonaceae is a family of flowering plants commonly known as the knotweed or buckwheat family, which includes herbs, shrubs, and vines such as buckwheat, sorrel, and rhubarb.
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A.
Amaranthaceae
Amaranthaceae is a large family of flowering plants that includes amaranths, beets, spinach, and many halophytic and weedy species found worldwide.
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B.
Urticaceae
Urticaceae is a family of flowering plants commonly known as the nettle family, which includes herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees often characterized by stinging hairs and small, greenish flowers.
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C.
Caryophyllaceae
Caryophyllaceae is a large family of flowering plants, commonly known as the pink or carnation family, that includes many herbaceous species found worldwide, especially in temperate regions.
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D.
Elaeagnaceae
Elaeagnaceae is a small family of flowering plants, commonly known as the oleaster or silverberry family, that includes shrubs and small trees often adapted to dry or nutrient-poor soils.
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E.
Barbeyaceae
Barbeyaceae is a small family of flowering plants in the order Rosales, comprising shrubs or small trees native to arid and semi-arid regions of East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
plant family
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| class | Magnoliopsida ⓘ |
| commonName |
buckwheat family
ⓘ
knotweed family ⓘ |
| containsEdibleCrop |
buckwheat
ⓘ
rhubarb ⓘ |
| containsEdiblePlant | sorrel ⓘ |
| distribution | cosmopolitan ⓘ |
| division | Magnoliophyta ⓘ |
| floweringPlant | true ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
ochrea at leaf nodes
ⓘ
often swollen nodes on stems ⓘ simple leaves ⓘ |
| includesGenus |
Antigonon
ⓘ
Atraphaxis ⓘ Brunnichia ⓘ Calligonum ⓘ Coccoloba ⓘ Emex ⓘ Eriogonum ⓘ Fagopyrum ⓘ Fallopia ⓘ Muehlenbeckia ⓘ Oxygonum ⓘ Oxyria ⓘ Persicaria ⓘ
linked to:
Polygonaceae
Polygonella ⓘ Polygonum ⓘ Rheum ⓘ Rumex ⓘ Triplaris ⓘ |
| includesSpecies |
Antigonon leptopus
ⓘ
linked to:
Antigonon
Coccoloba uvifera ⓘ Eriogonum fasciculatum ⓘ Fagopyrum esculentum ⓘ
linked to:
Fagopyrum
Fallopia japonica ⓘ
linked to:
Fallopia
Muehlenbeckia complexa ⓘ
linked to:
Muehlenbeckia
Oxyria digyna ⓘ
linked to:
Oxyria
Persicaria hydropiper ⓘ
linked to:
Polygonum
Rheum rhabarbarum ⓘ
linked to:
Rheum
Rumex acetosa ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| lifeForm |
herb
ⓘ
shrub ⓘ vine ⓘ |
| notableInvasiveMember |
Fallopia japonica
ⓘ
linked to:
Fallopia
|
| order | Caryophyllales ⓘ |
| reproductiveType | angiosperm ⓘ |
| subfamily |
Eriogonoideae
ⓘ
Polygonoideae ⓘ |
| taxonRank | family ⓘ |
| typeGenus | Polygonum ⓘ |
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: Polygonaceae Description of subject: Polygonaceae is a family of flowering plants commonly known as the knotweed or buckwheat family, which includes herbs, shrubs, and vines such as buckwheat, sorrel, and rhubarb.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.