book "What a Plant Knows"
E912197
"What a Plant Knows" is a popular science book that explores how plants perceive and respond to their environment, revealing the surprising sensory world of plant life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| book "What a Plant Knows" canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11223671 — 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: book "What a Plant Knows" Context triple: [Daniel Chamovitz, knownFor, book "What a Plant Knows"]
-
A.
The Private Life of Plants
The Private Life of Plants is a landmark BBC nature documentary series, presented by David Attenborough, that reveals the hidden, time-lapse world of plant life and their complex behaviors.
-
B.
Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants
Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants is a 1979 experimental concept album by Stevie Wonder, serving as the mostly instrumental soundtrack to the documentary film "The Secret Life of Plants."
-
C.
The Loves of the Plants
The Loves of the Plants is a didactic poem by Erasmus Darwin that personifies plant reproduction to popularize contemporary botanical science.
-
D.
The Gardener's Dictionary
The Gardener's Dictionary is an 18th-century horticultural reference work by botanist Philip Miller that became one of the most influential gardening manuals of its time.
-
E.
The Power of Trees
"The Power of Trees" is an influential work by ecologist Gretchen C. Daily that explores the vital ecological, economic, and cultural roles of trees and forests in sustaining life on Earth.
- 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: book "What a Plant Knows" Target entity description: "What a Plant Knows" is a popular science book that explores how plants perceive and respond to their environment, revealing the surprising sensory world of plant life.
-
A.
The Private Life of Plants
The Private Life of Plants is a landmark BBC nature documentary series, presented by David Attenborough, that reveals the hidden, time-lapse world of plant life and their complex behaviors.
-
B.
Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants
Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants is a 1979 experimental concept album by Stevie Wonder, serving as the mostly instrumental soundtrack to the documentary film "The Secret Life of Plants."
-
C.
The Loves of the Plants
The Loves of the Plants is a didactic poem by Erasmus Darwin that personifies plant reproduction to popularize contemporary botanical science.
-
D.
The Gardener's Dictionary
The Gardener's Dictionary is an 18th-century horticultural reference work by botanist Philip Miller that became one of the most influential gardening manuals of its time.
-
E.
The Power of Trees
"The Power of Trees" is an influential work by ecologist Gretchen C. Daily that explores the vital ecological, economic, and cultural roles of trees and forests in sustaining life on Earth.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
ⓘ
popular science book ⓘ |
| aim | to explain plant sensory biology to a general audience ⓘ |
| author | Daniel Chamovitz ⓘ |
| basedOn | peer-reviewed plant biology research ⓘ |
| clarifies | differences between animal and plant senses ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| educationalUse | supplementary reading in biology courses ⓘ |
| explores |
how plants integrate environmental information
ⓘ
how plants sense chemicals ⓘ how plants sense gravity ⓘ how plants sense light ⓘ how plants sense touch ⓘ limits of plant cognition analogies ⓘ |
| genre | popular science ⓘ |
| hasEdition | revised and updated edition ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
audiobook
ⓘ
e-book ⓘ hardcover ⓘ paperback ⓘ |
| hasReview | generally positive critical reception ⓘ |
| influenced | public discussion of plant intelligence ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
general readers
ⓘ
students of biology ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
plant biology
ⓘ
plant perception ⓘ plant senses ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle |
accessible and explanatory
ⓘ
non-fiction ⓘ |
| notableFor |
challenging anthropocentric views of perception
ⓘ
popularizing the idea of plant senses ⓘ |
| pageCount | approximately 224 ⓘ |
| placesEmphasisOn | scientific evidence over speculation ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2012 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ⓘ
linked to:
Scientific American Books
|
| subtitle | A Field Guide to the Senses ⓘ |
| title |
What a Plant Knows
ⓘ
linked to:
"What a Plant Knows"
|
| topic |
how plants perceive their environment
ⓘ
plant communication ⓘ plant memory ⓘ plant responses to gravity ⓘ plant responses to light ⓘ plant responses to smell-like chemical cues ⓘ plant responses to sound (vibration) ⓘ plant responses to touch ⓘ |
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: book "What a Plant Knows" Description of subject: "What a Plant Knows" is a popular science book that explores how plants perceive and respond to their environment, revealing the surprising sensory world of plant life.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.