Sarcolaenaceae
E544106
Sarcolaenaceae is a family of flowering plants endemic to Madagascar, comprising mostly trees and shrubs and closely related to other families in the order Malvales.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sarcolaenaceae canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5690987 — 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: Sarcolaenaceae Context triple: [Malvales, contains, Sarcolaenaceae]
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A.
Myrothamnaceae
Myrothamnaceae is a small family of flowering plants best known for its resurrection shrubs that can survive extreme desiccation and revive when rehydrated.
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B.
Lardizabalaceae
Lardizabalaceae is a small family of mostly woody, often climbing flowering plants known for their ornamental foliage and sometimes edible fruits, native primarily to East Asia and the Andes.
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C.
Penthoraceae
Penthoraceae is a small family of flowering plants in the order Saxifragales, typically comprising herbaceous or semi-aquatic species found in temperate regions.
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D.
Surianaceae
Surianaceae is a small family of flowering plants within the order Fabales, comprising mostly tropical trees and shrubs such as those in the genus Suriana.
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E.
Datiscaceae
Datiscaceae is a small family of flowering plants known for its herbaceous species, such as Datisca, that often exhibit unusual reproductive traits like dioecy and are native to regions in Eurasia and North America.
- 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: Sarcolaenaceae Target entity description: Sarcolaenaceae is a family of flowering plants endemic to Madagascar, comprising mostly trees and shrubs and closely related to other families in the order Malvales.
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A.
Myrothamnaceae
Myrothamnaceae is a small family of flowering plants best known for its resurrection shrubs that can survive extreme desiccation and revive when rehydrated.
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B.
Lardizabalaceae
Lardizabalaceae is a small family of mostly woody, often climbing flowering plants known for their ornamental foliage and sometimes edible fruits, native primarily to East Asia and the Andes.
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C.
Penthoraceae
Penthoraceae is a small family of flowering plants in the order Saxifragales, typically comprising herbaceous or semi-aquatic species found in temperate regions.
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D.
Surianaceae
Surianaceae is a small family of flowering plants within the order Fabales, comprising mostly tropical trees and shrubs such as those in the genus Suriana.
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E.
Datiscaceae
Datiscaceae is a small family of flowering plants known for its herbaceous species, such as Datisca, that often exhibit unusual reproductive traits like dioecy and are native to regions in Eurasia and North America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
plant family
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| belongsToGroup | flowering plants ⓘ |
| biogeographicRealm | Afrotropical realm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| clade |
Magnoliophyta
ⓘ
surface form:
Angiosperms
Eudicots ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Cistaceae
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dipterocarpaceae NERFINISHED ⓘ Malvaceae s.l. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conservationConcern | many species threatened by habitat loss ⓘ |
| distribution | Madagascar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endemicTo | Madagascar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| growthForm | woody plants ⓘ |
| habitat |
humid forests of Madagascar
ⓘ
tropical forests ⓘ |
| hasMemberType |
shrub
ⓘ
tree ⓘ |
| isA | family of flowering plants ⓘ |
| isComposedMostlyOf |
shrubs
ⓘ
trees ⓘ |
| isEndemicFloraOf | Madagascar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isMonophyletic | true ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| nativeRange | Madagascar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| order | Malvales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| photosyntheticPathway | C3 ⓘ |
| pollination | insect-pollinated (general) ⓘ |
| taxonRank | family ⓘ |
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: Sarcolaenaceae Description of subject: Sarcolaenaceae is a family of flowering plants endemic to Madagascar, comprising mostly trees and shrubs and closely related to other families in the order Malvales.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.