Celastrales
E1043399
Celastrales is an order of flowering plants that includes families such as Celastraceae, comprising mostly woody trees and shrubs found in tropical and temperate regions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Celastrales canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13395186 — 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: Celastrales Context triple: [Oxalidales, relatedOrder, Celastrales]
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A.
Oxalidales
Oxalidales is an order of flowering plants that includes families such as Oxalidaceae and is known for species like wood sorrels and various tropical trees and shrubs.
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B.
Sarcolaenaceae
Sarcolaenaceae is a family of flowering plants endemic to Madagascar, comprising mostly trees and shrubs and closely related to other families in the order Malvales.
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C.
Apocynaceae
Apocynaceae is a large family of flowering plants, commonly known as the dogbane family, that includes many tropical trees, shrubs, and vines often noted for their milky sap and toxic or medicinal properties.
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D.
Restionaceae
Restionaceae is a family of rush-like, grass-like flowering plants characteristic of nutrient-poor, fire-prone habitats such as South African fynbos and Australian heaths.
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E.
Penthoraceae
Penthoraceae is a small family of flowering plants in the order Saxifragales, typically comprising herbaceous or semi-aquatic species found in temperate 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: Celastrales Target entity description: Celastrales is an order of flowering plants that includes families such as Celastraceae, comprising mostly woody trees and shrubs found in tropical and temperate regions.
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A.
Oxalidales
Oxalidales is an order of flowering plants that includes families such as Oxalidaceae and is known for species like wood sorrels and various tropical trees and shrubs.
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B.
Sarcolaenaceae
Sarcolaenaceae is a family of flowering plants endemic to Madagascar, comprising mostly trees and shrubs and closely related to other families in the order Malvales.
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C.
Apocynaceae
Apocynaceae is a large family of flowering plants, commonly known as the dogbane family, that includes many tropical trees, shrubs, and vines often noted for their milky sap and toxic or medicinal properties.
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D.
Restionaceae
Restionaceae is a family of rush-like, grass-like flowering plants characteristic of nutrient-poor, fire-prone habitats such as South African fynbos and Australian heaths.
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E.
Penthoraceae
Penthoraceae is a small family of flowering plants in the order Saxifragales, typically comprising herbaceous or semi-aquatic species found in temperate regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
plant order
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taxonomic rank ⓘ |
| characteristicGrowthForm |
lianas
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shrubs ⓘ trees ⓘ woody plants ⓘ |
| clade |
Magnoliophyta
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surface form:
Angiosperms
Eudicots ⓘ Rosids ⓘ |
| class | Magnoliopsida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsFamily |
Celastraceae
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lepidobotryaceae NERFINISHED ⓘ Nicobariodendraceae NERFINISHED ⓘ Parnassiaceae NERFINISHED ⓘ Perrottetiaceae NERFINISHED ⓘ Pottingeriaceae NERFINISHED ⓘ Stackhousiaceae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distribution |
subtropical regions
ⓘ
temperate regions ⓘ tropical regions ⓘ |
| division | Magnoliophyta ⓘ |
| economicUse |
medicinal plants
ⓘ
ornamental plants ⓘ timber sources ⓘ |
| flowerSymmetry | radial symmetry ⓘ |
| flowerType | bisexual flowers ⓘ |
| fruitType |
berries
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capsules ⓘ drupe-like fruits ⓘ |
| includesTaxon |
Celastrus
NERFINISHED
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Euonymus ⓘ Glyptopetalum NERFINISHED ⓘ Lepidobotrys NERFINISHED ⓘ Maytenus NERFINISHED ⓘ Parnassia NERFINISHED ⓘ Tripterygium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| leafArrangement |
alternate leaves
ⓘ
opposite leaves ⓘ |
| leafType | simple leaves ⓘ |
| notableSpeciesUse |
Euonymus species used as ornamentals
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Tripterygium wilfordii used in traditional medicine ⓘ |
| ovaryPosition | superior ovary ⓘ |
| photosyntheticPathway | C3 ⓘ |
| previousClassification | included in Celastrales and related orders in older systems ⓘ |
| recognizedBy | APG IV system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subclade | Fabids ⓘ |
| taxonRank | order ⓘ |
| typeOf | order of flowering plants ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Celastrales Description of subject: Celastrales is an order of flowering plants that includes families such as Celastraceae, comprising mostly woody trees and shrubs found in tropical and temperate regions.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.