Shidarezakura
E578599
Shidarezakura is a popular ornamental Japanese cherry tree variety known for its gracefully drooping branches covered in abundant spring blossoms.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shidarezakura canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6196643 — 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: Shidarezakura Context triple: [Mount Yoshino, hasCherryTreeVarieties, Shidarezakura]
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A.
Yamazakura
Yamazakura is a traditional Japanese mountain cherry tree variety celebrated for its delicate blossoms and naturalized presence on slopes such as Mount Yoshino.
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B.
Nara yae-zakura cherry blossom
The Nara yae-zakura cherry blossom is a distinctive double-flowered cherry tree variety celebrated in Japan for its lush, layered petals and strong association with Nara’s historical and cultural heritage.
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C.
Sakura
Sakura is a Japanese high-speed Shinkansen train service that operates mainly on the Sanyo and Kyushu Shinkansen lines.
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D.
Ishiwarizakura (Rock-Splitting Cherry Tree)
Ishiwarizakura, or the Rock-Splitting Cherry Tree, is a famous centuries-old cherry tree in Morioka, Japan, renowned for dramatically growing out of a large granite boulder.
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E.
Someiyoshino
Someiyoshino is Japan’s most widely planted and iconic cherry blossom cultivar, known for its pale pink flowers that bloom in dramatic unison each spring.
- 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: Shidarezakura Target entity description: Shidarezakura is a popular ornamental Japanese cherry tree variety known for its gracefully drooping branches covered in abundant spring blossoms.
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A.
Yamazakura
Yamazakura is a traditional Japanese mountain cherry tree variety celebrated for its delicate blossoms and naturalized presence on slopes such as Mount Yoshino.
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B.
Nara yae-zakura cherry blossom
The Nara yae-zakura cherry blossom is a distinctive double-flowered cherry tree variety celebrated in Japan for its lush, layered petals and strong association with Nara’s historical and cultural heritage.
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C.
Sakura
Sakura is a Japanese high-speed Shinkansen train service that operates mainly on the Sanyo and Kyushu Shinkansen lines.
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D.
Ishiwarizakura (Rock-Splitting Cherry Tree)
Ishiwarizakura, or the Rock-Splitting Cherry Tree, is a famous centuries-old cherry tree in Morioka, Japan, renowned for dramatically growing out of a large granite boulder.
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E.
Someiyoshino
Someiyoshino is Japan’s most widely planted and iconic cherry blossom cultivar, known for its pale pink flowers that bloom in dramatic unison each spring.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cherry tree cultivar
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ornamental tree ⓘ |
| associatedWith | hanami ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| cultivatedIn |
Europe
NERFINISHED
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Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ North America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance | symbol of spring in Japan ⓘ |
| family | Rosaceae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flowerColor |
pale pink
ⓘ
pink ⓘ |
| floweringSeason | spring ⓘ |
| flowerType | cherry blossom ⓘ |
| genus | Prunus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| growthRate | moderate ⓘ |
| hasAestheticQuality |
cascading floral display
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graceful appearance ⓘ |
| hasBranchHabit |
drooping
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weeping ⓘ |
| hasCommonName |
weeping cherry
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weeping flowering cherry ⓘ |
| hasGrowthForm | deciduous tree ⓘ |
| hasJapaneseName | しだれ桜 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableFeature |
abundant spring blossoms
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gracefully drooping branches ⓘ |
| hasUseContext |
temple gardens in Japan
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traditional Japanese gardens ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem |
Japanese kana
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Japanese kanji ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf | Japanese horticultural literature ⓘ |
| lifespan | long-lived ornamental tree ⓘ |
| lightRequirement | full sun ⓘ |
| nativeRegion | East Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| propagationMethod |
cuttings
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grafting ⓘ |
| soilPreference | well-drained soil ⓘ |
| typicalHeight | small to medium-sized tree ⓘ |
| usedFor |
avenue and street trees
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garden landscaping ⓘ ornamental planting ⓘ park plantings ⓘ |
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: Shidarezakura Description of subject: Shidarezakura is a popular ornamental Japanese cherry tree variety known for its gracefully drooping branches covered in abundant spring blossoms.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.