Romneya
E17950
Romneya is a small genus of showy, white-flowered shrubs commonly known as matilija poppies, native to California and northern Mexico.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Romneya canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T139427 — 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: Romneya Context triple: [Papaveraceae, includesGenus, Romneya]
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A.
Reid
Reid is a common Scottish and Irish surname that has been borne by numerous notable figures across fields such as science, politics, and the arts.
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B.
Al Reser
Al Reser was an American businessman and Oregon State University alumnus best known as the longtime head of Reser's Fine Foods and a major benefactor of OSU athletics.
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C.
MacDouglas
MacDouglas is a Scottish surname variant of Douglas, traditionally associated with clans and families of Scottish heritage.
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D.
Franklin
Franklin is the given name of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States who led the country through the Great Depression and World War II.
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E.
Howard
Howard is the middle name of Edwin H. Armstrong, the pioneering American electrical engineer and inventor of FM radio.
- 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: Romneya Target entity description: Romneya is a small genus of showy, white-flowered shrubs commonly known as matilija poppies, native to California and northern Mexico.
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A.
Reid
Reid is a common Scottish and Irish surname that has been borne by numerous notable figures across fields such as science, politics, and the arts.
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B.
Al Reser
Al Reser was an American businessman and Oregon State University alumnus best known as the longtime head of Reser's Fine Foods and a major benefactor of OSU athletics.
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C.
MacDouglas
MacDouglas is a Scottish surname variant of Douglas, traditionally associated with clans and families of Scottish heritage.
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D.
Franklin
Franklin is the given name of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States who led the country through the Great Depression and World War II.
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E.
Howard
Howard is the middle name of Edwin H. Armstrong, the pioneering American electrical engineer and inventor of FM radio.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
plant genus
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| attracts | pollinating insects ⓘ |
| clade |
Magnoliophyta
ⓘ
surface form:
Angiosperms
Eudicots ⓘ |
| commonName | matilija poppies ⓘ |
| describedBy | Harvey ⓘ |
| describedInYear | 1845 ⓘ |
| family | Papaveraceae ⓘ |
| flowerColor | white ⓘ |
| floweringSeason |
late spring
ⓘ
summer ⓘ |
| growthForm | shrub ⓘ |
| habitat |
chaparral
ⓘ
coastal sage scrub ⓘ dry slopes ⓘ |
| hasSpecies |
Romneya coulteri
ⓘ
Romneya coulteri ⓘ
surface form:
Romneya trichocalyx
|
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| leafType | deeply lobed leaves ⓘ |
| namedAfter | John Thomas Romney Robinson ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
northern Mexico ⓘ |
| notableFor | large showy flowers ⓘ |
| order | Ranunculales ⓘ |
| petalCount | six ⓘ |
| propagationMethod |
rhizomes
ⓘ
seed ⓘ |
| requires | well-drained soil ⓘ |
| tolerates | drought ⓘ |
| usedAs | ornamental plant ⓘ |
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: Romneya Description of subject: Romneya is a small genus of showy, white-flowered shrubs commonly known as matilija poppies, native to California and northern Mexico.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.