Cyclocarya
E1039598
Cyclocarya is a small genus of deciduous trees in the walnut family, notable for their distinctive winged fruits and occurrence in East Asia.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cyclocarya canonical | 1 |
| Cyclocarya paliurus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13395639 — 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: Cyclocarya Context triple: [Juglandaceae, contains, Cyclocarya]
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A.
Diospyros
Diospyros is a genus of trees and shrubs best known for species that produce ebony wood and persimmon fruits.
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B.
Ostryopsis
Ostryopsis is a small genus of deciduous shrubs in the birch family, native to mountainous regions of East Asia and known for their catkin-like inflorescences.
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C.
Psidium
Psidium is a genus of tropical and subtropical flowering plants in the myrtle family, best known for species such as the common guava that produce edible, aromatic fruits.
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D.
Spondias
Spondias is a genus of tropical fruit-bearing trees known for species like hog plum and ambarella, valued for their edible, often tangy fruits.
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E.
Cayratia
Cayratia is a genus of climbing or trailing flowering plants in the grape family, known for its tendrilled vines and berry-like fruits found mainly in tropical and subtropical regions.
- 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: Cyclocarya Target entity description: Cyclocarya is a small genus of deciduous trees in the walnut family, notable for their distinctive winged fruits and occurrence in East Asia.
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A.
Diospyros
Diospyros is a genus of trees and shrubs best known for species that produce ebony wood and persimmon fruits.
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B.
Ostryopsis
Ostryopsis is a small genus of deciduous shrubs in the birch family, native to mountainous regions of East Asia and known for their catkin-like inflorescences.
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C.
Psidium
Psidium is a genus of tropical and subtropical flowering plants in the myrtle family, best known for species such as the common guava that produce edible, aromatic fruits.
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D.
Spondias
Spondias is a genus of tropical fruit-bearing trees known for species like hog plum and ambarella, valued for their edible, often tangy fruits.
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E.
Cayratia
Cayratia is a genus of climbing or trailing flowering plants in the grape family, known for its tendrilled vines and berry-like fruits found mainly in tropical and subtropical regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
plant genus
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| barkType | furrowed bark ⓘ |
| belongsTo | walnut family ⓘ |
| clade |
Angiosperms
ⓘ
linked to:
Magnoliophyta
Eudicots ⓘ Rosids ⓘ |
| describedAs | small genus of deciduous trees in the walnut family ⓘ |
| distribution | subtropical China ⓘ |
| family | Juglandaceae ⓘ |
| fruitType | winged nut ⓘ |
| genusOf |
Cyclocarya paliurus
ⓘ
linked to:
Cyclocarya
|
| growthForm | tree ⓘ |
| habitat |
mountain forests
ⓘ
valley forests ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
broad crown
ⓘ
compound leaves ⓘ distinctive circular wing around the nut ⓘ |
| hasCommonName | wheel wingnut ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| leafArrangement | pinnate ⓘ |
| leafType | deciduous ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
China
ⓘ
East Asia ⓘ |
| notableFor | distinctive winged fruits ⓘ |
| order | Fagales ⓘ |
| photosyntheticPathway | C3 ⓘ |
| pollination | wind-pollinated ⓘ |
| reproductiveType | monoecious ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| usedFor |
ornamental planting
ⓘ
traditional medicine ⓘ |
| woodUse |
construction
ⓘ
furniture ⓘ timber ⓘ |
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: Cyclocarya Description of subject: Cyclocarya is a small genus of deciduous trees in the walnut family, notable for their distinctive winged fruits and occurrence in East Asia.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Cyclocarya