Asteraceae
E43048
Asteraceae is one of the largest families of flowering plants, commonly known as the aster, daisy, or sunflower family, encompassing a wide variety of herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees found worldwide.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Asteraceae canonical | 25 |
| Compositae | 1 |
| daisy family | 1 |
| sunflower family | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T332131 — 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: Asteraceae Context triple: [Rudbeckia hirta, family, Asteraceae]
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A.
Rosaceae
Rosaceae is a large family of flowering plants that includes roses, apples, cherries, strawberries, and many other economically and ornamentally important species.
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B.
Papaveraceae
Papaveraceae is a family of flowering plants commonly known as the poppy family, which includes many species with showy, often brightly colored flowers.
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C.
Fabaceae
Fabaceae is a large and economically important family of flowering plants, commonly known as the legume or pea family, that includes beans, peas, lentils, and many other nitrogen-fixing species.
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D.
Urticaceae
Urticaceae is a family of flowering plants commonly known as the nettle family, which includes herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees often characterized by stinging hairs and small, greenish flowers.
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E.
Ulmaceae
Ulmaceae is a family of flowering trees and shrubs best known for including the elms, which are widespread in temperate regions.
- 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: Asteraceae Target entity description: Asteraceae is one of the largest families of flowering plants, commonly known as the aster, daisy, or sunflower family, encompassing a wide variety of herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees found worldwide.
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A.
Rosaceae
Rosaceae is a large family of flowering plants that includes roses, apples, cherries, strawberries, and many other economically and ornamentally important species.
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B.
Papaveraceae
Papaveraceae is a family of flowering plants commonly known as the poppy family, which includes many species with showy, often brightly colored flowers.
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C.
Fabaceae
Fabaceae is a large and economically important family of flowering plants, commonly known as the legume or pea family, that includes beans, peas, lentils, and many other nitrogen-fixing species.
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D.
Urticaceae
Urticaceae is a family of flowering plants commonly known as the nettle family, which includes herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees often characterized by stinging hairs and small, greenish flowers.
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E.
Ulmaceae
Ulmaceae is a family of flowering trees and shrubs best known for including the elms, which are widespread in temperate regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
plant family
ⓘ
taxonomic family ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Asteraceae
ⓘ
surface form:
Compositae
|
| belongsToClade |
Asterids
ⓘ
surface form:
asterids
eudicots ⓘ |
| class | Magnoliopsida ⓘ |
| commonName |
aster family
ⓘ
Asteraceae self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
daisy family
Asteraceae self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
sunflower family
|
| distribution | worldwide ⓘ |
| division | Magnoliophyta ⓘ |
| economicImportance |
food crops
ⓘ
medicinal plants ⓘ oilseed crops ⓘ ornamental plants ⓘ weeds ⓘ |
| estimatedNumberOfGenera | over 1600 ⓘ |
| estimatedNumberOfSpecies | over 23000 ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
contains both ray and disc florets in many species
ⓘ
cosmopolitan distribution ⓘ flowers arranged in composite flower heads ⓘ fruit typically an achene ⓘ includes shrubs ⓘ includes trees ⓘ inflorescences in heads or capitula ⓘ mostly herbaceous plants ⓘ often has involucral bracts surrounding flower head ⓘ often has pappus derived from calyx ⓘ one of the largest families of flowering plants ⓘ |
| includesGenus |
Achillea
ⓘ
Artemisia ⓘ Aster ⓘ Bellis ⓘ Calendula ⓘ Chrysanthemum ⓘ Cichorium ⓘ Cynara ⓘ Echinacea ⓘ Helianthus ⓘ Lactuca ⓘ Liatris ⓘ Senecio ⓘ Solidago ⓘ Tagetes ⓘ Taraxacum ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| notableSpecies |
Chrysanthemum
ⓘ
surface form:
Chrysanthemum morifolium
Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus ⓘ Helianthus ⓘ
surface form:
Helianthus annuus
Lactuca sativa ⓘ Taraxacum ⓘ
surface form:
Taraxacum officinale
|
| order | Asterales ⓘ |
| pollination |
insects
ⓘ
wind ⓘ |
| taxonRank | family ⓘ |
| typeGenus | Aster ⓘ |
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: Asteraceae Description of subject: Asteraceae is one of the largest families of flowering plants, commonly known as the aster, daisy, or sunflower family, encompassing a wide variety of herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees found worldwide.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Rudbeckia hirta
this entity surface form:
daisy family
this entity surface form:
sunflower family
this entity surface form:
Compositae