Haloragaceae
E427296
Haloragaceae is a family of mostly aquatic or wetland flowering plants, including water milfoils and related genera, found in temperate and subtropical regions worldwide.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Haloragaceae canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4272807 — 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: Haloragaceae Context triple: [Cucurbitales, includesFamily, Haloragaceae]
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A.
Nitrariaceae
Nitrariaceae is a small family of flowering plants, mostly shrubs and small trees, known for their adaptation to arid and saline environments and for including genera such as Nitraria and Peganum.
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B.
Picramniaceae
Picramniaceae is a small family of flowering plants comprising mostly tropical trees and shrubs, recognized in modern classifications as part of the order Rosales.
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C.
Sonneratiaceae
Sonneratiaceae is a small family of flowering plants within the order Myrtales, best known for mangrove-associated trees such as Sonneratia found in tropical coastal regions.
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D.
Circaeasteraceae
Circaeasteraceae is a small family of flowering plants in the order Ranunculales, known for its few herbaceous species with limited geographic distribution in Asia.
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E.
Rhynchocalycaceae
Rhynchocalycaceae is a small family of flowering plants within the order Myrtales, comprising tropical trees or shrubs native to regions such as South America and Africa.
- 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: Haloragaceae Target entity description: Haloragaceae is a family of mostly aquatic or wetland flowering plants, including water milfoils and related genera, found in temperate and subtropical regions worldwide.
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A.
Nitrariaceae
Nitrariaceae is a small family of flowering plants, mostly shrubs and small trees, known for their adaptation to arid and saline environments and for including genera such as Nitraria and Peganum.
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B.
Picramniaceae
Picramniaceae is a small family of flowering plants comprising mostly tropical trees and shrubs, recognized in modern classifications as part of the order Rosales.
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C.
Sonneratiaceae
Sonneratiaceae is a small family of flowering plants within the order Myrtales, best known for mangrove-associated trees such as Sonneratia found in tropical coastal regions.
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D.
Circaeasteraceae
Circaeasteraceae is a small family of flowering plants in the order Ranunculales, known for its few herbaceous species with limited geographic distribution in Asia.
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E.
Rhynchocalycaceae
Rhynchocalycaceae is a small family of flowering plants within the order Myrtales, comprising tropical trees or shrubs native to regions such as South America and Africa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
plant family
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taxon ⓘ |
| characteristic |
many species are aquatic or semi-aquatic
ⓘ
mostly herbaceous plants ⓘ often have finely divided submerged leaves ⓘ |
| clade |
Magnoliophyta
ⓘ
surface form:
Angiosperms
Eudicots ⓘ |
| commonName | water-milfoil family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distribution |
cosmopolitan
ⓘ
subtropical regions ⓘ temperate regions ⓘ |
| economicUse |
aquarium plants
ⓘ
ornamental aquatic plants ⓘ |
| flowerSymmetry | actinomorphic ⓘ |
| flowerType | small flowers ⓘ |
| fruitType | schizocarp ⓘ |
| growthForm |
emergent marsh herbs
ⓘ
submerged aquatic herbs ⓘ terrestrial herbs in some genera ⓘ |
| habitat |
aquatic environments
ⓘ
freshwater habitats ⓘ marshes ⓘ wetlands ⓘ |
| includesGenus |
Gonocarpus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Haloragis NERFINISHED ⓘ Laurembergia NERFINISHED ⓘ Meziella NERFINISHED ⓘ Myriophyllum NERFINISHED ⓘ Proserpinaca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| leafArrangement |
alternate leaves in many species
ⓘ
whorled leaves in many aquatic species ⓘ |
| notableMember |
Myriophyllum aquaticum
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Myriophyllum spicatum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| order | Saxifragales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ovaryPosition | inferior ovary ⓘ |
| photosyntheticPathway | C3 ⓘ |
| pollination |
primarily wind-pollinated
ⓘ
water-assisted pollination in some aquatic species ⓘ |
| previouslyPlacedIn | order Haloragales ⓘ |
| recognizedBy | APG IV system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reproduction |
sexual reproduction by flowers and seeds
ⓘ
vegetative reproduction in some species ⓘ |
| seedDispersal | water dispersal ⓘ |
| someSpeciesAre | invasive aquatic weeds ⓘ |
| taxonRank | family ⓘ |
| typeGenus | Haloragis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Haloragaceae Description of subject: Haloragaceae is a family of mostly aquatic or wetland flowering plants, including water milfoils and related genera, found in temperate and subtropical regions worldwide.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.