Dimocarpus
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Dimocarpus is a genus of tropical fruit-bearing trees best known for species like the longan, which produce edible, lychee-like fruits.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dimocarpus canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6205078 — 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: Dimocarpus Context triple: [Sapindaceae, containsGenus, Dimocarpus]
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A.
Artocarpus
Artocarpus is a genus of tropical trees in the mulberry family that includes economically important fruit species such as breadfruit and jackfruit.
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B.
Semecarpus
Semecarpus is a genus of tropical trees and shrubs in the cashew family, many species of which produce highly irritating sap that can cause severe allergic skin reactions.
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C.
Elaeocarpus ganitrus
Elaeocarpus ganitrus is a large evergreen tree native to parts of South and Southeast Asia, best known as the sacred species whose seeds are used to make rudraksha prayer beads in Hindu and Buddhist traditions.
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D.
Paliurus
Paliurus is a small genus of spiny shrubs and small trees known for their distinctive disc-shaped, winged fruits and occurrence in warm temperate to subtropical regions of Eurasia.
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E.
Syzygium
Syzygium is a large genus of flowering trees and shrubs in the myrtle family, best known for species such as clove and various edible fruit trees.
- 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: Dimocarpus Target entity description: Dimocarpus is a genus of tropical fruit-bearing trees best known for species like the longan, which produce edible, lychee-like fruits.
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A.
Artocarpus
Artocarpus is a genus of tropical trees in the mulberry family that includes economically important fruit species such as breadfruit and jackfruit.
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B.
Semecarpus
Semecarpus is a genus of tropical trees and shrubs in the cashew family, many species of which produce highly irritating sap that can cause severe allergic skin reactions.
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C.
Elaeocarpus ganitrus
Elaeocarpus ganitrus is a large evergreen tree native to parts of South and Southeast Asia, best known as the sacred species whose seeds are used to make rudraksha prayer beads in Hindu and Buddhist traditions.
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D.
Paliurus
Paliurus is a small genus of spiny shrubs and small trees known for their distinctive disc-shaped, winged fruits and occurrence in warm temperate to subtropical regions of Eurasia.
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E.
Syzygium
Syzygium is a large genus of flowering trees and shrubs in the myrtle family, best known for species such as clove and various edible fruit trees.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
genus
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| clade |
Angiosperms
ⓘ
linked to:
Magnoliophyta
Eudicots ⓘ Rosids ⓘ |
| climatePreference |
subtropical
ⓘ
tropical ⓘ |
| commonName | dimocarpus ⓘ |
| cultivatedIn |
China
ⓘ
Indonesia ⓘ Malaysia ⓘ Thailand ⓘ Vietnam ⓘ
linked to:
Viet Nam
|
| describedIn | botanical taxonomy literature ⓘ |
| dispersal | animal-dispersed fruits ⓘ |
| economicImportance | fruit crop genus ⓘ |
| family | Sapindaceae ⓘ |
| flowerType | small unisexual or functionally unisexual flowers ⓘ |
| fruitEdibleBy | humans ⓘ |
| fruitResembles | lychee ⓘ |
| growthForm | tree ⓘ |
| hasFruitType | edible fleshy fruit ⓘ |
| hasLanguageName |
Chinese
ⓘ
English ⓘ Thai ⓘ |
| hasNotableSpecies |
Dimocarpus longan
ⓘ
Dimocarpus longan var. longan ⓘ
linked to:
Dimocarpus longan
Dimocarpus longan var. obtusus ⓘ
linked to:
Dimocarpus longan
|
| isA | tropical fruit-bearing tree genus ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| leafArrangement | alternate ⓘ |
| leafMorphology | pinnate ⓘ |
| leafType | evergreen ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Indochina
ⓘ
linked to:
Indochinese Peninsula
Indonesia ⓘ Malaysia ⓘ Southeast Asia ⓘ southern China ⓘ tropical Asia ⓘ |
| order | Sapindales ⓘ |
| photosyntheticPathway | C3 ⓘ |
| pollination | insect-pollinated ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Litchi
ⓘ
Nephelium ⓘ |
| reproduction | sexual reproduction via flowers ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| usedFor |
fruit production
ⓘ
timber (minor) ⓘ |
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: Dimocarpus Description of subject: Dimocarpus is a genus of tropical fruit-bearing trees best known for species like the longan, which produce edible, lychee-like fruits.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.