Teide bugloss (Echium wildpretii)
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Teide bugloss (Echium wildpretii) is a striking, tall, red-flowering plant endemic to the high-altitude volcanic slopes of Tenerife in the Canary Islands.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Teide bugloss (Echium wildpretii) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6580091 — 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: Teide bugloss (Echium wildpretii) Context triple: [Teide National Park, flora, Teide bugloss (Echium wildpretii)]
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Armeria
Armeria is a genus of flowering plants, commonly known as thrift or sea pinks, often found in coastal and alpine habitats and valued for their dense tufts of grass-like leaves and globular flower heads.
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B.
Caltha
Caltha is a small genus of marsh-dwelling flowering plants commonly known as marsh marigolds, found in temperate and cold regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
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C.
Holmlia
Holmlia is a residential neighborhood in Oslo, Norway, known for its diverse population and location in the city's southeastern suburbs.
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D.
Antarctic pearlwort
Antarctic pearlwort is a small, hardy flowering plant native to the Antarctic region, known for being one of the continent’s only two naturally occurring flowering plant species.
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E.
Alchemilla
Alchemilla is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants, commonly known as lady’s mantle, noted for their fan-shaped, softly hairy leaves that collect water droplets and their use in traditional herbal medicine.
- 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: Teide bugloss (Echium wildpretii) Target entity description: Teide bugloss (Echium wildpretii) is a striking, tall, red-flowering plant endemic to the high-altitude volcanic slopes of Tenerife in the Canary Islands.
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A.
Armeria
Armeria is a genus of flowering plants, commonly known as thrift or sea pinks, often found in coastal and alpine habitats and valued for their dense tufts of grass-like leaves and globular flower heads.
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B.
Caltha
Caltha is a small genus of marsh-dwelling flowering plants commonly known as marsh marigolds, found in temperate and cold regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
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C.
Holmlia
Holmlia is a residential neighborhood in Oslo, Norway, known for its diverse population and location in the city's southeastern suburbs.
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D.
Antarctic pearlwort
Antarctic pearlwort is a small, hardy flowering plant native to the Antarctic region, known for being one of the continent’s only two naturally occurring flowering plant species.
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E.
Alchemilla
Alchemilla is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants, commonly known as lady’s mantle, noted for their fan-shaped, softly hairy leaves that collect water droplets and their use in traditional herbal medicine.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
flowering plant
ⓘ
plant species ⓘ |
| adaptation |
adapted to high solar radiation
ⓘ
adapted to poor volcanic soils ⓘ drought-tolerant ⓘ |
| attracts | pollinators ⓘ |
| belongsToFloraOf | Spain ⓘ |
| climatePreference | Mediterranean semi-arid ⓘ |
| commonName |
Teide bugloss
ⓘ
Tower of jewels ⓘ |
| conservationStatus | not globally evaluated by IUCN (as of 2024) ⓘ |
| describedBy | Johannes Wildpret ⓘ |
| distribution | central caldera of Teide ⓘ |
| endemicTo |
Teide National Park
ⓘ
Tenerife ⓘ |
| family | Boraginaceae ⓘ |
| flowerColor | red ⓘ |
| floweringSeason |
early summer
ⓘ
late spring ⓘ |
| foundOn |
Mount Teide
ⓘ
linked to:
Teide–Pico Viejo complex
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| genus | Echium ⓘ |
| growthForm |
rosette-forming herb
ⓘ
tall flowering spike ⓘ |
| habitat |
high-altitude volcanic slopes
ⓘ
subalpine zone ⓘ |
| inflorescenceType | dense terminal spike ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| leafArrangement | basal rosette ⓘ |
| leafType | narrow ⓘ |
| lifeCycle | biennial ⓘ |
| maximumHeight | about 3 m ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Canary Islands
ⓘ
Tenerife ⓘ |
| notableFor | striking tall red flower spikes ⓘ |
| order | Boraginales ⓘ |
| photosyntheticPathway | C3 ⓘ |
| pollinatedBy |
bees
ⓘ
butterflies ⓘ other insects ⓘ |
| region | Macaronesia ⓘ |
| reproduction | by seed ⓘ |
| soilPreference | well-drained volcanic soil ⓘ |
| specificEpithetHonours | Johannes Wildpret ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| uses | ornamental plant ⓘ |
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: Teide bugloss (Echium wildpretii) Description of subject: Teide bugloss (Echium wildpretii) is a striking, tall, red-flowering plant endemic to the high-altitude volcanic slopes of Tenerife in the Canary Islands.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.