Menispermum
E321003
Menispermum is a small genus of twining, woody vines commonly known as moonseeds, noted for their crescent-shaped seeds and often toxic properties.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Menispermum canonical | 3 |
| Menispermum canadense | 2 |
| Caprifolium | 1 |
| Menispermum dauricum | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3042706 — 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: Menispermum Context triple: [Menispermaceae, containsGenus, Menispermum]
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A.
Sarcomphalus
Sarcomphalus is a genus of flowering plants in the buckthorn family, known for its shrubs and small trees native to tropical and subtropical regions.
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B.
Silene
Silene is a large genus of flowering plants, commonly known as campions or catchflies, found mainly in temperate regions and noted for their showy, often pink or white, five-petaled flowers.
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C.
Silene
Silene is the legendary city or region traditionally depicted as the setting of the Saint George and the Dragon story in medieval Christian lore.
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D.
Stellaria
Stellaria is a genus of flowering plants commonly known as chickweeds, characterized by small, star-shaped white flowers and a widespread distribution in temperate regions.
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E.
Muehlenbeckia
Muehlenbeckia is a genus of flowering plants known for its often twining or mat-forming species, commonly used as ornamental groundcovers and climbers.
- 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: Menispermum Target entity description: Menispermum is a small genus of twining, woody vines commonly known as moonseeds, noted for their crescent-shaped seeds and often toxic properties.
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A.
Sarcomphalus
Sarcomphalus is a genus of flowering plants in the buckthorn family, known for its shrubs and small trees native to tropical and subtropical regions.
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B.
Silene
Silene is a large genus of flowering plants, commonly known as campions or catchflies, found mainly in temperate regions and noted for their showy, often pink or white, five-petaled flowers.
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C.
Silene
Silene is the legendary city or region traditionally depicted as the setting of the Saint George and the Dragon story in medieval Christian lore.
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D.
Stellaria
Stellaria is a genus of flowering plants commonly known as chickweeds, characterized by small, star-shaped white flowers and a widespread distribution in temperate regions.
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E.
Muehlenbeckia
Muehlenbeckia is a genus of flowering plants known for its often twining or mat-forming species, commonly used as ornamental groundcovers and climbers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
plant genus
ⓘ
plant species ⓘ plant species ⓘ taxon ⓘ |
| clade |
Magnoliophyta
ⓘ
surface form:
Angiosperms
Eudicots ⓘ Ranunculales ⓘ
surface form:
Ranunculales sensu lato
|
| climbingMechanism | twining stems ⓘ |
| commonName |
Akebia
ⓘ
surface form:
Asian moonseed
Canadian moonseed ⓘ moonseed ⓘ |
| contains | alkaloids ⓘ |
| describedAs | small genus ⓘ |
| dispersal | animal-dispersed fruits ⓘ |
| family | Menispermaceae ⓘ |
| flowerSex | dioecious ⓘ |
| flowerType | small unisexual flowers ⓘ |
| fruitType | drupe ⓘ |
| genus | Menispermum self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| growthForm |
twining climber
ⓘ
woody vine ⓘ |
| habitat |
riverbanks
ⓘ
thickets ⓘ woodlands ⓘ |
| hasSpecies |
Menispermum
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Menispermum canadense
Menispermum self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Menispermum dauricum
|
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| leafArrangement | alternate ⓘ |
| leafType | simple ⓘ |
| lifeCycle | perennial ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
East Asia
ⓘ
North America ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
crescent-shaped endocarp in seed
ⓘ
toxic resemblance of fruits to edible grapes ⓘ |
| order | Ranunculales ⓘ |
| photosyntheticPathway | C3 ⓘ |
| pollination | insect-pollinated ⓘ |
| reproduction | sexual reproduction via flowers and seeds ⓘ |
| risk | poisoning if ingested ⓘ |
| seedShape |
crescent-shaped
ⓘ
moon-shaped ⓘ |
| stemType | liana ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| toxicity | often toxic ⓘ |
| usedIn | traditional medicine (with caution) ⓘ |
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: Menispermum Description of subject: Menispermum is a small genus of twining, woody vines commonly known as moonseeds, noted for their crescent-shaped seeds and often toxic properties.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Menispermum canadense
this entity surface form:
Caprifolium
this entity surface form:
Menispermum canadense
this entity surface form:
Menispermum dauricum
subject surface form:
Menispermum canadense