Discaria articulata
E442162
Discaria articulata is a species of spiny, nitrogen-fixing shrub in the genus Discaria, native to temperate regions of South America.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Discaria articulata canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4457746 — 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: Discaria articulata Context triple: [Discaria, hasNotableSpecies, Discaria articulata]
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A.
Anesidora
Anesidora is an epithet of the Greek goddess Demeter that emphasizes her role as the giver of gifts, especially the bounty of the earth.
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B.
Hydractinia echinata
Hydractinia echinata is a small colonial marine hydrozoan that commonly grows on hermit crab shells and is used as a model organism for studying regeneration and allorecognition.
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C.
Charniodiscus
Charniodiscus is an extinct genus of frond-like marine organisms from the Ediacaran Period, known from soft-bodied fossils that represent some of the earliest complex multicellular life.
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D.
Pteridinium
Pteridinium is an extinct, soft-bodied, frond-like organism from the late Ediacaran period, known from fossil impressions that help illuminate some of the earliest complex multicellular life on Earth.
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E.
Capnoides
Capnoides is a small genus of flowering plants in the poppy order Papaverales, known for delicate, often tubular flowers and typically found 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: Discaria articulata Target entity description: Discaria articulata is a species of spiny, nitrogen-fixing shrub in the genus Discaria, native to temperate regions of South America.
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A.
Anesidora
Anesidora is an epithet of the Greek goddess Demeter that emphasizes her role as the giver of gifts, especially the bounty of the earth.
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B.
Hydractinia echinata
Hydractinia echinata is a small colonial marine hydrozoan that commonly grows on hermit crab shells and is used as a model organism for studying regeneration and allorecognition.
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C.
Charniodiscus
Charniodiscus is an extinct genus of frond-like marine organisms from the Ediacaran Period, known from soft-bodied fossils that represent some of the earliest complex multicellular life.
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D.
Pteridinium
Pteridinium is an extinct, soft-bodied, frond-like organism from the late Ediacaran period, known from fossil impressions that help illuminate some of the earliest complex multicellular life on Earth.
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E.
Capnoides
Capnoides is a small genus of flowering plants in the poppy order Papaverales, known for delicate, often tubular flowers and typically found in temperate regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
nitrogen-fixing plant
ⓘ
shrub ⓘ species of plant ⓘ |
| belongsToClade |
angiosperms
ⓘ
eudicots ⓘ rosids ⓘ
linked to:
Rosids
|
| domain |
Eukaryota
ⓘ
linked to:
Eukarya
|
| family | Rhamnaceae ⓘ |
| fixesAtmosphericNitrogen | true ⓘ |
| flowerType | angiosperm flower ⓘ |
| genus | Discaria ⓘ |
| growthForm | shrub ⓘ |
| habitat |
open woodland
ⓘ
temperate shrublands ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
nitrogen-fixing
ⓘ
spiny ⓘ woody ⓘ |
| hasSpines | true ⓘ |
| isActinorhizalPlant | true ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| lifeCycle | perennial ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
South America
ⓘ
temperate regions of South America ⓘ |
| nitrogenFixationSymbiont | Frankia bacteria ⓘ |
| order | Rosales ⓘ |
| photosyntheticPathway | C3 ⓘ |
| reproduction | sexual reproduction via flowers and seeds ⓘ |
| symbiosis | actinorhizal nitrogen fixation ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| woodiness | woody plant ⓘ |
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: Discaria articulata Description of subject: Discaria articulata is a species of spiny, nitrogen-fixing shrub in the genus Discaria, native to temperate regions of South America.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.