Cissus
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Cissus is a genus of mostly tropical and subtropical climbing plants and vines in the grape family, many of which are grown as ornamentals or used in traditional medicine.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cissus canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4304798 — 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: Cissus Context triple: [Vitaceae, containsGenus, Cissus]
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A.
Cissampelos
Cissampelos is a genus of climbing flowering plants known for their twining vines and traditional medicinal uses, belonging to the moonseed family.
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B.
Ficus
Ficus is a large genus of woody plants, including figs and rubber trees, known for their distinctive fruits and often used as ornamental and indoor plants.
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C.
Combretocarpus
Combretocarpus is a small genus of tropical flowering trees known for their occurrence in Southeast Asian rainforests and distinctive wood.
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D.
Pilea
Pilea is a large genus of mostly tropical, herbaceous flowering plants commonly grown as ornamental houseplants for their attractive foliage.
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E.
Decaisnea
Decaisnea is a small genus of deciduous shrubs or small trees known for their unusual, fleshy, often blue pod-like fruits and is native to regions of East and South Asia.
- 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: Cissus Target entity description: Cissus is a genus of mostly tropical and subtropical climbing plants and vines in the grape family, many of which are grown as ornamentals or used in traditional medicine.
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A.
Cissampelos
Cissampelos is a genus of climbing flowering plants known for their twining vines and traditional medicinal uses, belonging to the moonseed family.
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B.
Ficus
Ficus is a large genus of woody plants, including figs and rubber trees, known for their distinctive fruits and often used as ornamental and indoor plants.
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C.
Combretocarpus
Combretocarpus is a small genus of tropical flowering trees known for their occurrence in Southeast Asian rainforests and distinctive wood.
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D.
Pilea
Pilea is a large genus of mostly tropical, herbaceous flowering plants commonly grown as ornamental houseplants for their attractive foliage.
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E.
Decaisnea
Decaisnea is a small genus of deciduous shrubs or small trees known for their unusual, fleshy, often blue pod-like fruits and is native to regions of East and South Asia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
plant genus
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taxon ⓘ |
| belongsTo | grape family ⓘ |
| class | Magnoliopsida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commonName |
grape ivy (for some species)
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treebine ⓘ |
| describedAs | genus of mostly tropical and subtropical climbing plants and vines ⓘ |
| distribution |
New World tropics
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Old World tropics ⓘ |
| division | Magnoliophyta ⓘ |
| family | Vitaceae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flowerType | angiosperm flower ⓘ |
| fruitType | berry ⓘ |
| growthForm |
climbing plant
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vine ⓘ |
| habitat |
subtropical regions
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tropical regions ⓘ |
| hasSpecies |
Cissus adnata
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Cissus antarctica NERFINISHED ⓘ Cissus corniculata NERFINISHED ⓘ Cissus cornifolia NERFINISHED ⓘ Cissus discolor NERFINISHED ⓘ Cissus erosa NERFINISHED ⓘ Cissus hypoglauca ⓘ Cissus incisa NERFINISHED ⓘ Cissus integrifolia ⓘ Cissus javana NERFINISHED ⓘ Cissus nodosa NERFINISHED ⓘ Cissus oblonga NERFINISHED ⓘ Cissus pallida NERFINISHED ⓘ Cissus populnea NERFINISHED ⓘ Cissus quadrangularis NERFINISHED ⓘ Cissus repens NERFINISHED ⓘ Cissus rhombifolia NERFINISHED ⓘ Cissus rotundifolia NERFINISHED ⓘ Cissus sicyoides NERFINISHED ⓘ Cissus striata NERFINISHED ⓘ Cissus tiliacea NERFINISHED ⓘ Cissus trifoliata ⓘ Cissus verticillaris NERFINISHED ⓘ Cissus verticillata NERFINISHED ⓘ Cissus woodrowii NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| leafType | broadleaf ⓘ |
| order | Vitales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| photosyntheticPathway | C3 ⓘ |
| pollination | insect-pollinated (for many species) ⓘ |
| reproduction | sexual reproduction via flowers ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| use |
ornamental plant
ⓘ
traditional medicine ⓘ |
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: Cissus Description of subject: Cissus is a genus of mostly tropical and subtropical climbing plants and vines in the grape family, many of which are grown as ornamentals or used in traditional medicine.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.