Viola sororia
E371007
Viola sororia is a common North American violet species known for its heart-shaped leaves and purple, white, or bicolored spring flowers that often naturalize in lawns and woodlands.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Viola sororia canonical | 2 |
| Viola sect. Viola (rock garden pansies) | 1 |
| Viola sect. Viola (true violets) | 1 |
| common blue violet | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3570801 — 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.
Target entity: Viola sororia Context triple: [Violet, hasNotableSpecies, Viola sororia]
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A.
Viola odorata
Viola odorata, commonly known as sweet violet, is a fragrant flowering plant native to Europe and Asia, often cultivated for its scented purple or white blossoms and traditional medicinal and culinary uses.
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B.
Viola tricolor
Viola tricolor is a small European wildflower in the violet family, commonly known as wild pansy or heartsease, noted for its tricolored petals and traditional medicinal and ornamental uses.
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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.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Viola sororia Target entity description: Viola sororia is a common North American violet species known for its heart-shaped leaves and purple, white, or bicolored spring flowers that often naturalize in lawns and woodlands.
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A.
Viola odorata
Viola odorata, commonly known as sweet violet, is a fragrant flowering plant native to Europe and Asia, often cultivated for its scented purple or white blossoms and traditional medicinal and culinary uses.
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B.
Viola tricolor
Viola tricolor is a small European wildflower in the violet family, commonly known as wild pansy or heartsease, noted for its tricolored petals and traditional medicinal and ornamental uses.
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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.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
flowering plant
ⓘ
plant species ⓘ violet ⓘ |
| attracts |
butterflies
ⓘ
native bees ⓘ pollinators ⓘ |
| canNaturalizeIn | lawns ⓘ |
| commonName |
Viola sororia
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
common blue violet
common violet ⓘ hooded violet ⓘ meadow violet ⓘ purple violet ⓘ woolly blue violet ⓘ |
| considered | lawn weed in some regions ⓘ |
| family | Violaceae ⓘ |
| flowerColor |
bicolored
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blue-violet ⓘ purple ⓘ white ⓘ |
| floweringSeason |
early summer
ⓘ
spring ⓘ |
| fruitType | capsule ⓘ |
| genus | Viola ⓘ |
| growthForm | herbaceous perennial ⓘ |
| habitat |
lawns
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meadows ⓘ shaded areas ⓘ woodlands ⓘ |
| hasCleistogamousFlowers | true ⓘ |
| height | 5–20 cm ⓘ |
| isStateFlowerOf |
Illinois
ⓘ
New Jersey, United States ⓘ
surface form:
New Jersey
Rhode Island ⓘ Wisconsin ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| leafArrangement | basal rosette ⓘ |
| leafShape | heart-shaped ⓘ |
| lifeCycle | perennial ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Canada
ⓘ
North America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
eastern North America ⓘ |
| order | Malpighiales ⓘ |
| pollinatedBy |
bees
ⓘ
butterflies ⓘ other insects ⓘ |
| reproduction |
asexual reproduction by rhizomes
ⓘ
sexual reproduction by seeds ⓘ |
| seedDispersal |
ants
ⓘ
explosive dehiscence ⓘ |
| spread | clumping and spreading ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| tolerates |
clay soil
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moist soil ⓘ shade ⓘ |
| usedAs | ornamental groundcover ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Viola sororia Description of subject: Viola sororia is a common North American violet species known for its heart-shaped leaves and purple, white, or bicolored spring flowers that often naturalize in lawns and woodlands.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.