Peridiscaceae
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Peridiscaceae is a small, unusual family of flowering plants within the order Saxifragales, known for its limited number of genera and geographically scattered, often tropical distribution.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Peridiscaceae canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4633469 — 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: Peridiscaceae Context triple: [Saxifragales, includesFamily, Peridiscaceae]
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Gunneraceae
Gunneraceae is a small family of flowering plants best known for the giant rhubarb-like genus Gunnera, which includes some of the largest herbaceous plants in the world.
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Quillajaceae
Quillajaceae is a small family of flowering plants best known for the soapbark tree (Quillaja saponaria), whose saponin-rich bark is used as a natural surfactant and foaming agent.
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C.
Kirkiaceae
Kirkiaceae is a small family of flowering plants in the order Sapindales, comprising tropical trees and shrubs primarily found in Africa and nearby regions.
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D.
Welwitschiaceae
Welwitschiaceae is a small family of gymnosperms best known for the bizarre desert plant Welwitschia, which has only two continuously growing leaves and can live for centuries in the Namib Desert.
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E.
Duabangaceae
Duabangaceae is a small family of flowering plants within the order Myrtales, comprising tropical trees known for their woody fruits and occurrence in Asian and African 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: Peridiscaceae Target entity description: Peridiscaceae is a small, unusual family of flowering plants within the order Saxifragales, known for its limited number of genera and geographically scattered, often tropical distribution.
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A.
Gunneraceae
Gunneraceae is a small family of flowering plants best known for the giant rhubarb-like genus Gunnera, which includes some of the largest herbaceous plants in the world.
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B.
Quillajaceae
Quillajaceae is a small family of flowering plants best known for the soapbark tree (Quillaja saponaria), whose saponin-rich bark is used as a natural surfactant and foaming agent.
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C.
Kirkiaceae
Kirkiaceae is a small family of flowering plants in the order Sapindales, comprising tropical trees and shrubs primarily found in Africa and nearby regions.
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D.
Welwitschiaceae
Welwitschiaceae is a small family of gymnosperms best known for the bizarre desert plant Welwitschia, which has only two continuously growing leaves and can live for centuries in the Namib Desert.
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E.
Duabangaceae
Duabangaceae is a small family of flowering plants within the order Myrtales, comprising tropical trees known for their woody fruits and occurrence in Asian and African regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Peridiscaceae Description of subject: Peridiscaceae is a small, unusual family of flowering plants within the order Saxifragales, known for its limited number of genera and geographically scattered, often tropical distribution.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.