Moringaceae
E1039565
Moringaceae is a small family of flowering plants best known for the drumstick tree or horseradish tree (Moringa oleifera), valued for its edible and medicinal parts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Moringaceae canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13395202 — 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: Moringaceae Context triple: [Brassicales, containsFamily, Moringaceae]
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A.
Morinaceae
Morinaceae is a small family of flowering plants within the order Dipsacales, comprising herbaceous species and shrubs primarily found in Eurasia and North Africa.
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B.
Malvaceae
Malvaceae is a large family of flowering plants that includes mallows, hibiscus, cotton, and okra, many of which are important ornamentals and crops.
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C.
Sapotaceae
Sapotaceae is a family of mainly tropical flowering trees and shrubs known for their latex-rich sap and edible fruits such as sapodilla.
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D.
Sterculiaceae
Sterculiaceae is a former family of flowering plants, now largely included within Malvaceae, that comprised mostly tropical trees and shrubs such as cacao and kola.
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E.
Meliaceae
Meliaceae is a family of mostly tropical flowering trees and shrubs that includes economically important timber and ornamental species such as mahogany and neem.
- 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: Moringaceae Target entity description: Moringaceae is a small family of flowering plants best known for the drumstick tree or horseradish tree (Moringa oleifera), valued for its edible and medicinal parts.
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A.
Morinaceae
Morinaceae is a small family of flowering plants within the order Dipsacales, comprising herbaceous species and shrubs primarily found in Eurasia and North Africa.
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B.
Malvaceae
Malvaceae is a large family of flowering plants that includes mallows, hibiscus, cotton, and okra, many of which are important ornamentals and crops.
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C.
Sapotaceae
Sapotaceae is a family of mainly tropical flowering trees and shrubs known for their latex-rich sap and edible fruits such as sapodilla.
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D.
Sterculiaceae
Sterculiaceae is a former family of flowering plants, now largely included within Malvaceae, that comprised mostly tropical trees and shrubs such as cacao and kola.
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E.
Meliaceae
Meliaceae is a family of mostly tropical flowering trees and shrubs that includes economically important timber and ornamental species such as mahogany and neem.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
angiosperm family
ⓘ
plant family ⓘ taxon ⓘ |
| belongsToClade |
core eudicots
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
eudicots ⓘ malvids ⓘ rosids ⓘ |
| bestKnownFor | Moringa oleifera NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| class | Magnoliopsida ⓘ |
| commonName | moringa family ⓘ |
| containsTaxon |
Moringa arborea
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Moringa borziana NERFINISHED ⓘ Moringa concanensis NERFINISHED ⓘ Moringa drouhardii NERFINISHED ⓘ Moringa hildebrandtii NERFINISHED ⓘ Moringa longituba NERFINISHED ⓘ Moringa oleifera NERFINISHED ⓘ Moringa ovalifolia NERFINISHED ⓘ Moringa peregrina NERFINISHED ⓘ Moringa pygmaea NERFINISHED ⓘ Moringa rivae NERFINISHED ⓘ Moringa ruspoliana NERFINISHED ⓘ Moringa stenopetala NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distribution |
Africa
ⓘ
Arabian Peninsula NERFINISHED ⓘ Asia ⓘ Madagascar NERFINISHED ⓘ subtropical regions ⓘ tropical regions ⓘ |
| division | Magnoliophyta ⓘ |
| economicImportance |
source of edible leaves
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source of edible pods ⓘ source of seed oil ⓘ source of traditional medicines ⓘ |
| flowerType | angiosperm flowers ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
composed of trees and shrubs
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many species adapted to arid and semi-arid regions ⓘ members often have pinnate leaves ⓘ small family of flowering plants ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| notableSpecies |
Moringa oleifera
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Moringa peregrina NERFINISHED ⓘ Moringa stenopetala NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| order | Brassicales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Brassicaceae
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Capparaceae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| taxonRank | family ⓘ |
| typeGenus | Moringa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Moringaceae Description of subject: Moringaceae is a small family of flowering plants best known for the drumstick tree or horseradish tree (Moringa oleifera), valued for its edible and medicinal parts.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.