Parkinsonia
E135483
Parkinsonia is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs in the pea family, commonly known for their green bark and adaptation to arid, desert environments.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Parkinsonia canonical | 4 |
| Parkinsonia texana | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1141101 — 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: Parkinsonia Context triple: [Palo verde, genus, Parkinsonia]
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A.
Parkinsonia aculeata
Parkinsonia aculeata is a thorny, drought-tolerant flowering tree or shrub native to the Americas, often used as an ornamental plant in arid and semi-arid regions.
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B.
Parkinsonia microphylla
Parkinsonia microphylla is a small, drought-tolerant desert tree native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, known for its green bark, tiny leaves, and bright yellow spring flowers.
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C.
Parkinsonia florida
Parkinsonia florida is a small, drought-tolerant desert tree native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, known for its green bark and profuse yellow spring blossoms.
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D.
Paliurus
Paliurus is a small genus of spiny shrubs and small trees known for their distinctive disc-shaped, winged fruits and occurrence in warm temperate to subtropical regions of Eurasia.
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E.
Girardinia
Girardinia is a small genus of stinging nettle-like flowering plants known for their fibrous stems and occurrence 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: Parkinsonia Target entity description: Parkinsonia is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs in the pea family, commonly known for their green bark and adaptation to arid, desert environments.
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A.
Parkinsonia aculeata
Parkinsonia aculeata is a thorny, drought-tolerant flowering tree or shrub native to the Americas, often used as an ornamental plant in arid and semi-arid regions.
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B.
Parkinsonia microphylla
Parkinsonia microphylla is a small, drought-tolerant desert tree native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, known for its green bark, tiny leaves, and bright yellow spring flowers.
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C.
Parkinsonia florida
Parkinsonia florida is a small, drought-tolerant desert tree native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, known for its green bark and profuse yellow spring blossoms.
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D.
Paliurus
Paliurus is a small genus of spiny shrubs and small trees known for their distinctive disc-shaped, winged fruits and occurrence in warm temperate to subtropical regions of Eurasia.
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E.
Girardinia
Girardinia is a small genus of stinging nettle-like flowering plants known for their fibrous stems and occurrence in tropical and subtropical regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
genus
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| adaptation |
drought tolerance
ⓘ
photosynthetic bark ⓘ |
| belongsToSubfamily | Caesalpinioideae ⓘ |
| clade |
Magnoliophyta
ⓘ
surface form:
Angiosperms
Eudicots ⓘ Rosids ⓘ |
| climatePreference | hot climates ⓘ |
| commonName |
Jerusalem thorn
ⓘ
palo verde ⓘ |
| family | Fabaceae ⓘ |
| flowerColor | yellow ⓘ |
| flowerType | pea-like flowers ⓘ |
| fruitType | legume pod ⓘ |
| growthForm |
shrub
ⓘ
tree ⓘ |
| habitat |
arid environments
ⓘ
deserts ⓘ semi-arid scrublands ⓘ |
| hasSpecies |
Parkinsonia aculeata
ⓘ
Parkinsonia florida ⓘ Parkinsonia microphylla ⓘ Parkinsonia praecox ⓘ Parkinsonia self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Parkinsonia texana
|
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| leafType | bipinnate leaves ⓘ |
| namedAfter | John Parkinson ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Americas
ⓘ
Mexico ⓘ South America ⓘ southwestern United States ⓘ
surface form:
Southwestern United States
desert regions ⓘ |
| nitrogenFixing | true ⓘ |
| order | Fabales ⓘ |
| parentTaxon | Fabaceae ⓘ |
| photosynthesis | C3 pathway ⓘ |
| photosyntheticTissue | green bark ⓘ |
| pollination | insect-pollinated ⓘ |
| reproduction | seed ⓘ |
| soilPreference | well-drained soils ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| tolerance |
drought
ⓘ
high temperatures ⓘ |
| uses |
erosion control
ⓘ
ornamental plant ⓘ shade tree ⓘ |
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: Parkinsonia Description of subject: Parkinsonia is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs in the pea family, commonly known for their green bark and adaptation to arid, desert environments.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Parkinsonia texana