Crataegus
E57813
Crataegus is a genus of shrubs and small trees commonly known as hawthorns, valued for their white or pink blossoms, red fruits, and use in ornamental planting and traditional medicine.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Crataegus canonical | 4 |
| Crataegus monogyna | 2 |
| Crataegus azarolus | 1 |
| Crataegus crus-galli | 1 |
| Crataegus douglasii | 1 |
| Crataegus laevigata | 1 |
| Crataegus oxyacantha (historical; now ambiguous) | 1 |
| Crataegus pinnatifida | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T442930 — 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: Crataegus Context triple: [Rosaceae, hasMemberGenus, Crataegus]
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A.
Sorbus
Sorbus is a genus of deciduous trees and shrubs, commonly known as rowans or whitebeams, valued for their ornamental foliage, flowers, and berry-like fruits.
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B.
Rubus
Rubus is a large genus of flowering plants in the rose family that includes raspberries, blackberries, and many related bramble fruits.
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C.
Prunus
Prunus is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs that includes cherries, plums, peaches, apricots, and almonds, many of which are important fruit and nut crops.
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D.
Celtis
Celtis is a genus of deciduous trees commonly known as hackberries, valued for their hardiness and small, berry-like fruits.
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E.
Ulmus
Ulmus is a genus of deciduous trees commonly known as elms, widely distributed across the Northern Hemisphere and valued for their distinctive vase-shaped form and use in landscaping and timber.
- 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: Crataegus Target entity description: Crataegus is a genus of shrubs and small trees commonly known as hawthorns, valued for their white or pink blossoms, red fruits, and use in ornamental planting and traditional medicine.
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A.
Sorbus
Sorbus is a genus of deciduous trees and shrubs, commonly known as rowans or whitebeams, valued for their ornamental foliage, flowers, and berry-like fruits.
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B.
Rubus
Rubus is a large genus of flowering plants in the rose family that includes raspberries, blackberries, and many related bramble fruits.
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C.
Prunus
Prunus is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs that includes cherries, plums, peaches, apricots, and almonds, many of which are important fruit and nut crops.
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D.
Celtis
Celtis is a genus of deciduous trees commonly known as hackberries, valued for their hardiness and small, berry-like fruits.
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E.
Ulmus
Ulmus is a genus of deciduous trees commonly known as elms, widely distributed across the Northern Hemisphere and valued for their distinctive vase-shaped form and use in landscaping and timber.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
plant genus
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| class | Magnoliopsida ⓘ |
| commonName |
hawberry
ⓘ
hawthorn ⓘ hawthorns ⓘ may-tree ⓘ thornapple ⓘ whitethorn ⓘ |
| containsCompound |
flavonoids
ⓘ
procyanidins ⓘ |
| describedBy | Carl Linnaeus ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole |
food source for birds
ⓘ
host plant for insect larvae ⓘ |
| family | Rosaceae ⓘ |
| flowerColor |
pink
ⓘ
white ⓘ |
| floweringSeason | spring ⓘ |
| fruitColor |
black
ⓘ
orange ⓘ red ⓘ yellow ⓘ |
| fruitType | pome ⓘ |
| growthForm |
shrub
ⓘ
small tree ⓘ |
| hasHybridization | frequent natural hybrids within genus ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfSpecies | hundreds of species (taxonomically complex) ⓘ |
| hasRepresentativeSpecies |
Crataegus azarolus
ⓘ
linked to:
Crataegus
Crataegus crus-galli ⓘ
linked to:
Crataegus
Crataegus douglasii ⓘ
linked to:
Crataegus
Crataegus laevigata ⓘ
linked to:
Crataegus
Crataegus monogyna ⓘ
linked to:
Crataegus
Crataegus pinnatifida ⓘ
linked to:
Crataegus
|
| hasThorns | true ⓘ |
| hasTypeSpecies |
Crataegus oxyacantha (historical; now ambiguous)
ⓘ
linked to:
Crataegus
|
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| leafType | deciduous ⓘ |
| medicinalUse |
cardiovascular support
ⓘ
mild heart failure (traditional use) ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Asia
ⓘ
Europe ⓘ North America ⓘ temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere ⓘ |
| order | Rosales ⓘ |
| phylum | Tracheophyta ⓘ |
| pollination | insects ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| typicalHeight | 5–15 meters ⓘ |
| usedFor |
hedges
ⓘ
herbal supplements ⓘ ornamental planting ⓘ traditional medicine ⓘ wildlife habitat ⓘ |
| usedInCuisine |
jellies and preserves (some species)
ⓘ
traditional Chinese foods (C. pinnatifida) ⓘ |
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: Crataegus Description of subject: Crataegus is a genus of shrubs and small trees commonly known as hawthorns, valued for their white or pink blossoms, red fruits, and use in ornamental planting and traditional medicine.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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