Peganum
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Peganum is a small genus of flowering plants best known for species like Peganum harmala, a hardy desert shrub valued in traditional medicine and rituals for its psychoactive and dye-producing seeds.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Peganum canonical | 3 |
| Peganum mexicanum | 1 |
| Peganum multisectum | 1 |
| Peganum nigellastrum | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6126965 — 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: Peganum Context triple: [Nitrariaceae, includesGenus, Peganum]
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A.
Boerhavia
Boerhavia is a genus of flowering plants, commonly known as spiderlings, found in warm regions worldwide and noted for their weedy, sprawling habit and small clustered flowers.
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B.
Salsola
Salsola is a genus of flowering plants in the amaranth family, commonly known for species like tumbleweeds that thrive in arid and saline environments.
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C.
Portulaca
Portulaca is a genus of flowering succulent plants, commonly known as purslanes, valued for their drought tolerance and brightly colored blooms.
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D.
Poikilospermum
Poikilospermum is a genus of flowering plants in the hemp family Cannabaceae, comprising mostly tropical climbing or scrambling shrubs and small trees.
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E.
Parasponia
Parasponia is a small genus of tropical trees and shrubs notable for being the only non-leguminous plants known to form nitrogen-fixing symbioses with rhizobial bacteria.
- 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: Peganum Target entity description: Peganum is a small genus of flowering plants best known for species like Peganum harmala, a hardy desert shrub valued in traditional medicine and rituals for its psychoactive and dye-producing seeds.
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A.
Boerhavia
Boerhavia is a genus of flowering plants, commonly known as spiderlings, found in warm regions worldwide and noted for their weedy, sprawling habit and small clustered flowers.
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B.
Salsola
Salsola is a genus of flowering plants in the amaranth family, commonly known for species like tumbleweeds that thrive in arid and saline environments.
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C.
Portulaca
Portulaca is a genus of flowering succulent plants, commonly known as purslanes, valued for their drought tolerance and brightly colored blooms.
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D.
Poikilospermum
Poikilospermum is a genus of flowering plants in the hemp family Cannabaceae, comprising mostly tropical climbing or scrambling shrubs and small trees.
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E.
Parasponia
Parasponia is a small genus of tropical trees and shrubs notable for being the only non-leguminous plants known to form nitrogen-fixing symbioses with rhizobial bacteria.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
plant genus
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| clade |
Angiosperms
ⓘ
linked to:
Magnoliophyta
Eudicots ⓘ |
| containsCompound |
beta-carboline alkaloids
ⓘ
harmaline ⓘ harmalol ⓘ harmine ⓘ quinazoline alkaloids ⓘ |
| describedBy | Carl Linnaeus ⓘ |
| describedIn | Species Plantarum ⓘ |
| describedInYear | 1753 ⓘ |
| distributionStatus |
introduced in Australia
ⓘ
introduced in North America ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole | drought-tolerant shrub in desert ecosystems ⓘ |
| family | Nitrariaceae ⓘ |
| flowerColor | white ⓘ |
| flowerType | actinomorphic flowers ⓘ |
| fruitType | capsule ⓘ |
| growthForm | shrub ⓘ |
| habitat |
arid regions
ⓘ
semi-arid regions ⓘ |
| hasCommonUse | psychoactive seeds ⓘ |
| hasSpecies |
Peganum harmala
ⓘ
Peganum mexicanum ⓘ
linked to:
Peganum
Peganum multisectum ⓘ
linked to:
Peganum
Peganum nigellastrum ⓘ
linked to:
Peganum
Peganum texanum ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| leafType | herbaceous leaves ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Central Asia
ⓘ
Mediterranean region ⓘ
linked to:
Mediterranean Basin
Middle East ⓘ North Africa ⓘ South Asia ⓘ |
| order | Sapindales ⓘ |
| photosyntheticPathway | C3 ⓘ |
| pollination | insect-pollinated ⓘ |
| reproduction | sexual reproduction ⓘ |
| seedCharacteristic | small brown seeds ⓘ |
| seedDispersal |
animal dispersal
ⓘ
gravity dispersal ⓘ |
| toxicTo |
humans in high doses
ⓘ
livestock ⓘ |
| typeSpecies | Peganum harmala ⓘ |
| usedFor |
dye production
ⓘ
ritual practices ⓘ traditional medicine ⓘ |
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: Peganum Description of subject: Peganum is a small genus of flowering plants best known for species like Peganum harmala, a hardy desert shrub valued in traditional medicine and rituals for its psychoactive and dye-producing seeds.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Peganum
linked to: Peganum
linked to: Peganum