Lesser periwinkle
E143349
Lesser periwinkle is a low-growing evergreen flowering plant often used as ornamental groundcover and recognized in Scottish heraldry as a clan plant badge.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lesser periwinkle canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1255349 — 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: Lesser periwinkle Context triple: [Clan Kirkpatrick, hasPlantBadge, Lesser periwinkle]
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A.
Solomon's Seal
Solomon's Seal is a legendary symbol associated with King Solomon, often depicted as an interlaced hexagram or pentagram believed to grant power over spirits and demons in various religious and occult traditions.
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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.
Parasponia
Parasponia is a small genus of tropical trees and shrubs notable for being the only non-leguminous plants known to form nitrogen-fixing symbioses with rhizobial bacteria.
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D.
Alchemilla
Alchemilla is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants, commonly known as lady’s mantle, noted for their fan-shaped, softly hairy leaves that collect water droplets and their use in traditional herbal medicine.
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E.
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.
- 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: Lesser periwinkle Target entity description: Lesser periwinkle is a low-growing evergreen flowering plant often used as ornamental groundcover and recognized in Scottish heraldry as a clan plant badge.
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A.
Solomon's Seal
Solomon's Seal is a legendary symbol associated with King Solomon, often depicted as an interlaced hexagram or pentagram believed to grant power over spirits and demons in various religious and occult traditions.
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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.
Parasponia
Parasponia is a small genus of tropical trees and shrubs notable for being the only non-leguminous plants known to form nitrogen-fixing symbioses with rhizobial bacteria.
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D.
Alchemilla
Alchemilla is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants, commonly known as lady’s mantle, noted for their fan-shaped, softly hairy leaves that collect water droplets and their use in traditional herbal medicine.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
evergreen perennial
ⓘ
flowering plant ⓘ plant species ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Clan MacLachlan
ⓘ
surface form:
Clan Maclachlan
Scottish heraldry ⓘ |
| binomialName | Vinca minor ⓘ |
| commonName |
creeping myrtle
ⓘ
dwarf periwinkle ⓘ myrtle groundcover ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance | Scottish clan plant badge ⓘ |
| family | Apocynaceae ⓘ |
| flowerColor |
blue
ⓘ
violet ⓘ |
| floweringSeason |
early summer
ⓘ
spring ⓘ |
| flowerStructure | five-petaled salverform corolla ⓘ |
| flowerSymmetry | radial ⓘ |
| genus | Vinca ⓘ |
| growthForm |
low-growing subshrub
ⓘ
trailing groundcover ⓘ |
| habitat |
hedgerows
ⓘ
shaded gardens ⓘ woodland edges ⓘ |
| hardiness | frost hardy ⓘ |
| introducedRange |
Australia
ⓘ
New Zealand ⓘ North America ⓘ |
| invasiveness | can be invasive outside native range ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| leafArrangement | opposite ⓘ |
| leafType | evergreen ⓘ |
| nativeRange |
central Europe
ⓘ
southern Europe ⓘ |
| order | Gentianales ⓘ |
| photosyntheticPathway | C3 ⓘ |
| pollination | insect-pollinated ⓘ |
| propagationMethod |
division
ⓘ
stem cuttings ⓘ |
| reproduction | vegetative spread by rooting stems ⓘ |
| shadeTolerance | tolerant of shade ⓘ |
| soilPreference | well-drained soil ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| toxicity |
contains toxic alkaloids
ⓘ
poisonous if ingested in quantity ⓘ |
| use |
erosion control
ⓘ
ornamental groundcover ⓘ understory planting ⓘ |
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: Lesser periwinkle Description of subject: Lesser periwinkle is a low-growing evergreen flowering plant often used as ornamental groundcover and recognized in Scottish heraldry as a clan plant badge.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.