Cercis
E279767
Cercis is a genus of small deciduous trees and shrubs in the pea family, known for their early spring display of pink to magenta blossoms that often appear on bare branches before the leaves.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cercis siliquastrum | 2 |
| Cercis canonical | 1 |
| Cercis chinensis | 1 |
| Cercis chingii | 1 |
| Cercis griffithii | 1 |
| Cercis occidentalis | 1 |
| Cercis racemosa | 1 |
| Philadelphus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2579537 — 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: Cercis Context triple: [Eastern redbud, genus, Cercis]
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A.
Cytisus
Cytisus is a genus of flowering shrubs in the legume family, commonly known as brooms, noted for their bright, pea-like flowers and use in ornamental landscaping.
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B.
Frangula
Frangula is a genus of flowering shrubs and small trees, commonly known as buckthorns, found in temperate regions and valued for their ecological and medicinal properties.
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C.
Sorbus
Sorbus is a genus of deciduous trees and shrubs, commonly known as rowans or whitebeams, valued for their ornamental foliage, flowers, and berry-like fruits.
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D.
Prunus
Prunus is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs that includes cherries, plums, peaches, apricots, and almonds, many of which are important fruit and nut crops.
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E.
Celtis
Celtis is a genus of deciduous trees commonly known as hackberries, valued for their hardiness and small, berry-like fruits.
- 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: Cercis Target entity description: Cercis is a genus of small deciduous trees and shrubs in the pea family, known for their early spring display of pink to magenta blossoms that often appear on bare branches before the leaves.
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A.
Cytisus
Cytisus is a genus of flowering shrubs in the legume family, commonly known as brooms, noted for their bright, pea-like flowers and use in ornamental landscaping.
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B.
Frangula
Frangula is a genus of flowering shrubs and small trees, commonly known as buckthorns, found in temperate regions and valued for their ecological and medicinal properties.
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C.
Sorbus
Sorbus is a genus of deciduous trees and shrubs, commonly known as rowans or whitebeams, valued for their ornamental foliage, flowers, and berry-like fruits.
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D.
Prunus
Prunus is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs that includes cherries, plums, peaches, apricots, and almonds, many of which are important fruit and nut crops.
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E.
Celtis
Celtis is a genus of deciduous trees commonly known as hackberries, valued for their hardiness and small, berry-like fruits.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
genus of plants
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| barkCharacteristic | dark bark with age ⓘ |
| belongsTo | legume family ⓘ |
| branchingPattern | often multi-stemmed ⓘ |
| clade |
angiosperms
ⓘ
eudicots ⓘ Rosids ⓘ
surface form:
rosids
|
| commonName | redbuds ⓘ |
| describedBy | Carl Linnaeus ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole | nectar source for pollinators ⓘ |
| family |
Fabaceae
ⓘ
pea family ⓘ |
| flowerArrangement | clusters on old wood and trunk (cauliflory) ⓘ |
| flowerColor |
magenta
ⓘ
pink ⓘ |
| floweringCharacteristic | flowers appear on bare branches before leaves ⓘ |
| floweringSeason | early spring ⓘ |
| fruitType | legume ⓘ |
| growthForm |
deciduous shrub
ⓘ
deciduous tree ⓘ |
| habitat |
open forests
ⓘ
woodland edges ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| leafPersistence | deciduous ⓘ |
| leafShape | broad ⓘ |
| leafType | simple ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Asia
ⓘ
Europe ⓘ North America ⓘ temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere ⓘ |
| notableSpecies |
Eastern redbud
ⓘ
surface form:
Cercis canadensis
Cercis self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Cercis chinensis
Cercis self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Cercis chingii
Cercis glabra ⓘ Cercis self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Cercis griffithii
Cercis self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Cercis occidentalis
Cercis self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Cercis racemosa
Cercis self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Cercis siliquastrum
|
| order | Fabales ⓘ |
| pollination | insect-pollinated ⓘ |
| seedDispersal |
animals
ⓘ
gravity ⓘ |
| subfamily | Cercidoideae ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| typeSpecies |
Cercis
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Cercis siliquastrum
|
| typicalHeight | small tree ⓘ |
| usedAs | ornamental plant ⓘ |
| yearDescribed | 1753 ⓘ |
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: Cercis Description of subject: Cercis is a genus of small deciduous trees and shrubs in the pea family, known for their early spring display of pink to magenta blossoms that often appear on bare branches before the leaves.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Philadelphus
this entity surface form:
Cercis siliquastrum
this entity surface form:
Cercis siliquastrum
this entity surface form:
Cercis chinensis
this entity surface form:
Cercis occidentalis
this entity surface form:
Cercis racemosa
this entity surface form:
Cercis griffithii
this entity surface form:
Cercis chingii