Gelsemium
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Gelsemium is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Gelsemiaceae, known for its ornamental yet highly toxic, fragrant yellow-flowered vines commonly called yellow jessamine.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gelsemium canonical | 4 |
| Gelsemium elegans | 1 |
| Gelsemium rankinii | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5305265 — 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: Gelsemium Context triple: [Yellow jessamine, genus, Gelsemium]
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A.
Hyoscyamus
Hyoscyamus is a small genus of toxic, psychoactive flowering plants commonly known as henbanes, historically used in medicine and witchcraft for their hallucinogenic and sedative properties.
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B.
Cocculus carolinus
Cocculus carolinus is a woody climbing vine native to the southeastern United States, known for its bright red berries and use as an ornamental plant.
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C.
Pulsatilla
Pulsatilla is a small genus of early-flowering perennial herbs known for their bell-shaped, often hairy flowers and feathery seed heads, commonly called pasqueflowers.
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D.
Cimicifuga
Cimicifuga is a small genus of flowering plants, commonly known as bugbane, valued for its tall ornamental spikes and traditional medicinal uses, particularly in species like black cohosh.
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E.
Datura
Datura is a genus of flowering plants known for its large, trumpet-shaped blooms and highly toxic, hallucinogenic properties.
- 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: Gelsemium Target entity description: Gelsemium is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Gelsemiaceae, known for its ornamental yet highly toxic, fragrant yellow-flowered vines commonly called yellow jessamine.
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A.
Hyoscyamus
Hyoscyamus is a small genus of toxic, psychoactive flowering plants commonly known as henbanes, historically used in medicine and witchcraft for their hallucinogenic and sedative properties.
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B.
Cocculus carolinus
Cocculus carolinus is a woody climbing vine native to the southeastern United States, known for its bright red berries and use as an ornamental plant.
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C.
Pulsatilla
Pulsatilla is a small genus of early-flowering perennial herbs known for their bell-shaped, often hairy flowers and feathery seed heads, commonly called pasqueflowers.
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D.
Cimicifuga
Cimicifuga is a small genus of flowering plants, commonly known as bugbane, valued for its tall ornamental spikes and traditional medicinal uses, particularly in species like black cohosh.
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E.
Datura
Datura is a genus of flowering plants known for its large, trumpet-shaped blooms and highly toxic, hallucinogenic properties.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
plant genus
ⓘ
plant species ⓘ taxon ⓘ |
| class | Magnoliopsida ⓘ |
| climbingMechanism | twining stems ⓘ |
| containsSpecies |
Gelsemium elegans
ⓘ
linked to:
Gelsemium
Gelsemium rankinii ⓘ
linked to:
Gelsemium
Gelsemium sempervirens ⓘ |
| division | Magnoliophyta ⓘ |
| family | Gelsemiaceae ⓘ |
| genus | Gelsemium ⓘ |
| growthForm | woody vine ⓘ |
| hasAlkaloid |
gelsemicine
ⓘ
gelsemine ⓘ koumine ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
evergreen woody vine
ⓘ
fragrant yellow flowers ⓘ fragrant yellow trumpet-shaped flowers ⓘ highly toxic ⓘ ornamental ⓘ toxic ⓘ |
| hasCommonName |
Carolina jessamine
ⓘ
linked to:
Yellow jessamine
Carolina yellow jasmine ⓘ Rankin's trumpetflower ⓘ yellow jasmine ⓘ yellow jessamine ⓘ
linked to:
Yellow jessamine
|
| hasFlowerColor | yellow ⓘ |
| hasLeafType | evergreen ⓘ |
| isA |
angiosperm genus
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eudicot genus ⓘ flowering plant genus ⓘ |
| isToxicTo |
humans
ⓘ
livestock ⓘ |
| isUsedAs | ornamental plant ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
China
ⓘ
East Asia ⓘ Southeast Asia ⓘ Southeastern United States ⓘ
linked to:
Southern United States
|
| order | Gentianales ⓘ |
| pollination | insect-pollinated ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| toxinType | alkaloids ⓘ |
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: Gelsemium Description of subject: Gelsemium is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Gelsemiaceae, known for its ornamental yet highly toxic, fragrant yellow-flowered vines commonly called yellow jessamine.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Gelsemium
linked to: Gelsemium