Mangifera
E25493
Mangifera is a genus of tropical fruit-bearing trees in the cashew family, best known for including the cultivated mango species.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mangifera canonical | 13 |
| Mangifera indica | 3 |
| Mangifera foetida | 2 |
| Mangifera laurina | 2 |
| Mangifera pajang | 2 |
| Mangifera odorata | 1 |
| Mangifera zeylanica | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T198187 — 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: Mangifera Context triple: [Mango, genus, Mangifera]
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A.
Mango
Mango is a sweet, tropical stone fruit widely cultivated and consumed around the world, especially in South Asia.
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B.
Morus
Morus is a genus of deciduous trees commonly known as mulberries, valued for their sweet, edible fruits and use in silkworm cultivation.
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C.
Tebu
Tebu is a Saharan ethnic group and language community primarily inhabiting parts of southern Libya, Chad, and Niger.
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D.
Macleaya
Macleaya is a small genus of tall, herbaceous flowering plants known as plume poppies, cultivated for their ornamental foliage and feathery flower plumes.
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E.
Malus
Malus is a genus of deciduous trees and shrubs in the rose family best known for cultivated apples and ornamental crabapples.
- 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: Mangifera Target entity description: Mangifera is a genus of tropical fruit-bearing trees in the cashew family, best known for including the cultivated mango species.
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A.
Mango
Mango is a sweet, tropical stone fruit widely cultivated and consumed around the world, especially in South Asia.
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B.
Morus
Morus is a genus of deciduous trees commonly known as mulberries, valued for their sweet, edible fruits and use in silkworm cultivation.
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C.
Tebu
Tebu is a Saharan ethnic group and language community primarily inhabiting parts of southern Libya, Chad, and Niger.
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D.
Macleaya
Macleaya is a small genus of tall, herbaceous flowering plants known as plume poppies, cultivated for their ornamental foliage and feathery flower plumes.
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E.
Malus
Malus is a genus of deciduous trees and shrubs in the rose family best known for cultivated apples and ornamental crabapples.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
genus
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| belongsToClade |
angiosperms
ⓘ
Eudicots ⓘ
surface form:
eudicots
malvids ⓘ Rosids ⓘ
surface form:
rosids
|
| class | Magnoliopsida ⓘ |
| commonName | mango trees ⓘ |
| contains |
Mangifera caesia
ⓘ
Mangifera self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Mangifera foetida
Mango ⓘ
surface form:
Mangifera indica
Mangifera self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Mangifera laurina
Mangifera odorata ⓘ Mangifera self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Mangifera pajang
Mangifera self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Mangifera zeylanica
|
| describedAs | genus of tropical fruit-bearing trees ⓘ |
| distribution |
South Asia
ⓘ
Southeast Asia ⓘ tropical Asia ⓘ |
| division | Magnoliophyta ⓘ |
| economicUse |
fruit production
ⓘ
timber ⓘ |
| family | Anacardiaceae ⓘ |
| fruitType | drupe ⓘ |
| growthForm | tree ⓘ |
| habitat | tropical forests ⓘ |
| hasFruit | mango ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| leafType | evergreen ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
South Asia
ⓘ
Southeast Asia ⓘ |
| notableSpecies |
Mangifera caesia
ⓘ
Mangifera self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Mangifera foetida
Mango ⓘ
surface form:
Mangifera indica
Mangifera self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Mangifera laurina
Mangifera self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Mangifera odorata
Mangifera self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Mangifera pajang
Mangifera zeylanica ⓘ |
| order | Sapindales ⓘ |
| parentTaxon | Anacardiaceae ⓘ |
| photosyntheticPathway | C3 ⓘ |
| pollination | insect-pollinated ⓘ |
| reproduction | sexual reproduction ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| typeSpecies | Mangifera indica ⓘ |
| usedFor |
culinary purposes
ⓘ
edible fruits ⓘ traditional medicine ⓘ |
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: Mangifera Description of subject: Mangifera is a genus of tropical fruit-bearing trees in the cashew family, best known for including the cultivated mango species.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mangifera foetida
this entity surface form:
Mangifera odorata
this entity surface form:
Mangifera pajang
this entity surface form:
Mangifera laurina
this entity surface form:
Mangifera foetida
this entity surface form:
Mangifera pajang
this entity surface form:
Mangifera zeylanica
this entity surface form:
Mangifera laurina
this entity surface form:
Mangifera indica
this entity surface form:
Mangifera indica
this entity surface form:
Mangifera indica