Simaroubaceae
E143596
Simaroubaceae is a family of mostly tropical flowering trees and shrubs known for their bitter compounds and inclusion of species like the tree-of-heaven (Ailanthus altissima).
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Simaroubaceae canonical | 18 |
| Simaroubaceae (in older classifications) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1197796 — 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: Simaroubaceae Context triple: [Sapindales, contains, Simaroubaceae]
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A.
Ulmaceae
Ulmaceae is a family of flowering trees and shrubs best known for including the elms, which are widespread in temperate regions.
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B.
Burseraceae
Burseraceae is a family of flowering trees and shrubs known for producing aromatic resins such as frankincense and myrrh.
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C.
Portulacaceae
Portulacaceae is a family of flowering plants commonly known as the purslane family, comprising mostly succulent herbs and shrubs adapted to arid and semi-arid environments.
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D.
Dirachmaceae
Dirachmaceae is a small family of flowering plants in the order Rosales, comprising rare shrubs or small trees native to arid regions of the Horn of Africa and nearby areas.
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E.
Basellaceae
Basellaceae is a small family of flowering plants, including mostly tropical climbing herbs and vines such as Malabar spinach, known for their succulent stems and edible leaves.
- 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: Simaroubaceae Target entity description: Simaroubaceae is a family of mostly tropical flowering trees and shrubs known for their bitter compounds and inclusion of species like the tree-of-heaven (Ailanthus altissima).
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A.
Ulmaceae
Ulmaceae is a family of flowering trees and shrubs best known for including the elms, which are widespread in temperate regions.
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B.
Burseraceae
Burseraceae is a family of flowering trees and shrubs known for producing aromatic resins such as frankincense and myrrh.
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C.
Portulacaceae
Portulacaceae is a family of flowering plants commonly known as the purslane family, comprising mostly succulent herbs and shrubs adapted to arid and semi-arid environments.
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D.
Dirachmaceae
Dirachmaceae is a small family of flowering plants in the order Rosales, comprising rare shrubs or small trees native to arid regions of the Horn of Africa and nearby areas.
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E.
Basellaceae
Basellaceae is a small family of flowering plants, including mostly tropical climbing herbs and vines such as Malabar spinach, known for their succulent stems and edible leaves.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Simaroubaceae Description of subject: Simaroubaceae is a family of mostly tropical flowering trees and shrubs known for their bitter compounds and inclusion of species like the tree-of-heaven (Ailanthus altissima).
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Simaroubaceae