Cephalotaxus
E280445
Cephalotaxus is a small genus of evergreen coniferous shrubs and trees, commonly known as plum yews, native to East Asia and valued for their ornamental foliage and shade tolerance.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cephalotaxus canonical | 3 |
| Cephalotaxus fortunei | 2 |
| Cephalotaxus koreana | 2 |
| Cephalotaxus oliveri | 2 |
| Cephalotaxus harringtonia | 1 |
| Cephalotaxus harringtonii | 1 |
| Cephalotaxus mannii | 1 |
| Cephalotaxus sinensis | 1 |
| Cephalotaxus wilsoniana | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2531893 — 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: Cephalotaxus Context triple: [Cephalotaxaceae, genus, Cephalotaxus]
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A.
Sciadopitys
Sciadopitys is a unique, ancient conifer genus best known for the Japanese umbrella pine, a slow-growing ornamental tree endemic to Japan.
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B.
Taxus
Taxus is a genus of evergreen coniferous trees and shrubs, commonly known as yews, valued for their ornamental use and as a source of the anti-cancer compound paclitaxel.
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C.
Cephalotaxaceae
Cephalotaxaceae is a small family of coniferous trees and shrubs, commonly known as plum yews, native to East Asia and valued for their ornamental foliage and, in some species, medicinal alkaloids.
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D.
Platycladus
Platycladus is a small genus of evergreen coniferous trees commonly known as Chinese arborvitae, widely used as ornamental and hedging plants in East Asia and beyond.
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E.
Podocarpus
Podocarpus is a large genus of evergreen coniferous trees and shrubs in the family Podocarpaceae, widely distributed in the Southern Hemisphere and valued as ornamental and timber plants.
- 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: Cephalotaxus Target entity description: Cephalotaxus is a small genus of evergreen coniferous shrubs and trees, commonly known as plum yews, native to East Asia and valued for their ornamental foliage and shade tolerance.
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A.
Sciadopitys
Sciadopitys is a unique, ancient conifer genus best known for the Japanese umbrella pine, a slow-growing ornamental tree endemic to Japan.
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B.
Taxus
Taxus is a genus of evergreen coniferous trees and shrubs, commonly known as yews, valued for their ornamental use and as a source of the anti-cancer compound paclitaxel.
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C.
Cephalotaxaceae
Cephalotaxaceae is a small family of coniferous trees and shrubs, commonly known as plum yews, native to East Asia and valued for their ornamental foliage and, in some species, medicinal alkaloids.
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D.
Platycladus
Platycladus is a small genus of evergreen coniferous trees commonly known as Chinese arborvitae, widely used as ornamental and hedging plants in East Asia and beyond.
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E.
Podocarpus
Podocarpus is a large genus of evergreen coniferous trees and shrubs in the family Podocarpaceae, widely distributed in the Southern Hemisphere and valued as ornamental and timber plants.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
conifer genus
ⓘ
plant genus ⓘ |
| barkType | brown bark ⓘ |
| class | Pinopsida ⓘ |
| climatePreference | temperate ⓘ |
| commonName | plum yews ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem ⓘ |
| division | Pinophyta ⓘ |
| evergreen | true ⓘ |
| family | Cephalotaxaceae ⓘ |
| firstDescriptionYear | 1897 ⓘ |
| growthForm |
evergreen shrub
ⓘ
evergreen tree ⓘ |
| hasSpecies |
Cephalotaxus
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Cephalotaxus fortunei
Cephalotaxus self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Cephalotaxus harringtonii
Cephalotaxus self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Cephalotaxus koreana
Cephalotaxus self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Cephalotaxus mannii
Cephalotaxus self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Cephalotaxus oliveri
Cephalotaxus self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Cephalotaxus sinensis
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| introducedAs | ornamental plant ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| leafArrangement | spiral on the shoot but appearing in two ranks ⓘ |
| leafPersistence | evergreen ⓘ |
| leafType | needle-like leaves ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
China
ⓘ
East Asia ⓘ Japan ⓘ Korea ⓘ Myanmar ⓘ northeastern India ⓘ northern Vietnam ⓘ |
| order | Pinales ⓘ |
| photosyntheticPathway | C3 ⓘ |
| pollination | wind-pollinated ⓘ |
| reproductiveType | dioecious ⓘ |
| seedType | fleshy aril-like seed coat ⓘ |
| shadeTolerance | high ⓘ |
| similarTo | Taxus ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| tolerates |
pruning
ⓘ
urban conditions ⓘ |
| usedIn |
landscape planting
ⓘ
shade gardens ⓘ |
| valuedFor |
ornamental foliage
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shade tolerance ⓘ |
| woodType | softwood ⓘ |
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: Cephalotaxus Description of subject: Cephalotaxus is a small genus of evergreen coniferous shrubs and trees, commonly known as plum yews, native to East Asia and valued for their ornamental foliage and shade tolerance.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Cephalotaxus harringtonia
this entity surface form:
Cephalotaxus fortunei
this entity surface form:
Cephalotaxus koreana
this entity surface form:
Cephalotaxus oliveri
this entity surface form:
Cephalotaxus wilsoniana
this entity surface form:
Cephalotaxus harringtonii
this entity surface form:
Cephalotaxus fortunei
this entity surface form:
Cephalotaxus koreana
this entity surface form:
Cephalotaxus oliveri
this entity surface form:
Cephalotaxus sinensis
this entity surface form:
Cephalotaxus mannii