Papaver
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Papaver is a genus of flowering plants best known for the poppy, which includes species cultivated for their showy blooms and for producing opium and culinary seeds.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Papaver canonical | 5 |
| Papaver argemone | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T830371 — 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: Papaver Context triple: [Glaucium, relatedTo, Papaver]
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A.
Papaver somniferum
Papaver somniferum is the opium poppy, a flowering plant cultivated both for its edible seeds and for producing opiates such as morphine and codeine.
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B.
Papaver rhoeas
Papaver rhoeas is the common red poppy, a wildflower native to Eurasia and North Africa, widely recognized as a symbol of remembrance for war casualties.
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C.
Argemone
Argemone is a genus of prickly poppy plants known for their spiny foliage and showy, often yellow or white flowers, native mainly to the Americas.
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D.
Chelidonium
Chelidonium is a small genus of flowering plants, commonly known as celandines, recognized for their yellow latex and traditional medicinal uses.
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E.
Papaveraceae
Papaveraceae is a family of flowering plants commonly known as the poppy family, which includes many species with showy, often brightly colored flowers.
- 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: Papaver Target entity description: Papaver is a genus of flowering plants best known for the poppy, which includes species cultivated for their showy blooms and for producing opium and culinary seeds.
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A.
Papaver somniferum
Papaver somniferum is the opium poppy, a flowering plant cultivated both for its edible seeds and for producing opiates such as morphine and codeine.
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B.
Papaver rhoeas
Papaver rhoeas is the common red poppy, a wildflower native to Eurasia and North Africa, widely recognized as a symbol of remembrance for war casualties.
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C.
Argemone
Argemone is a genus of prickly poppy plants known for their spiny foliage and showy, often yellow or white flowers, native mainly to the Americas.
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D.
Chelidonium
Chelidonium is a small genus of flowering plants, commonly known as celandines, recognized for their yellow latex and traditional medicinal uses.
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E.
Papaveraceae
Papaveraceae is a family of flowering plants commonly known as the poppy family, which includes many species with showy, often brightly colored flowers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
plant genus
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| class | Magnoliopsida ⓘ |
| commonName | poppies ⓘ |
| containsCompound |
codeine
ⓘ
morphine ⓘ thebaine ⓘ |
| describedBy | Carl Linnaeus ⓘ |
| division | Magnoliophyta ⓘ |
| economicUse |
ornamental garden plants
ⓘ
source of culinary seeds ⓘ source of pharmaceutical alkaloids ⓘ |
| etymology | Latin word for poppy ⓘ |
| family | Papaveraceae ⓘ |
| flowerColor |
orange
ⓘ
pink ⓘ red ⓘ white ⓘ yellow ⓘ |
| fruitType | capsule ⓘ |
| hasGrowthForm | herbaceous plants ⓘ |
| hasSpecies |
Papaver argemone
ⓘ
linked to:
Papaver
Papaver dubium ⓘ Papaver nudicaule ⓘ Papaver orientale ⓘ Papaver rhoeas ⓘ Papaver somniferum ⓘ |
| hasTypeSpecies | Papaver somniferum ⓘ |
| includedIn | APG IV system ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| knownFor |
ornamental cultivation
ⓘ
production of opium ⓘ production of poppy seeds ⓘ showy flowers ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Latin ⓘ |
| leafType |
dissected leaves
ⓘ
lobed leaves ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Eurasia
ⓘ
North Africa ⓘ North America ⓘ temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere ⓘ |
| order | Ranunculales ⓘ |
| pollination | insect-pollinated ⓘ |
| reproduction | angiosperm sexual reproduction ⓘ |
| seedUse |
baking
ⓘ
cooking oil production ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| yearDescribed | 1753 ⓘ |
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: Papaver Description of subject: Papaver is a genus of flowering plants best known for the poppy, which includes species cultivated for their showy blooms and for producing opium and culinary seeds.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Papaver