Daldinia
E583468
Daldinia is a genus of ascomycete fungi best known for its charcoal-like, concentric fruiting bodies often found on dead or dying wood.
All labels observed (12)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Daldinia canonical | 3 |
| Daldinia concentrica | 2 |
| Daldinia childiae | 1 |
| Daldinia eschscholtzii | 1 |
| Daldinia fissa | 1 |
| Daldinia lloydii | 1 |
| Daldinia loculata | 1 |
| Daldinia petriniae | 1 |
| Daldinia placentiformis | 1 |
| Daldinia raimundi | 1 |
| Daldinia vernicosa | 1 |
| Gnomonia | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6317551 — 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: Daldinia Context triple: [Xylariales, notableGenus, Daldinia]
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A.
Pothia
Pothia is the main town and administrative center of the Greek island of Kalymnos, known for its colorful hillside houses and harbor.
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B.
Holboellia
Holboellia is a small genus of woody, often evergreen climbing plants known for their ornamental foliage and sausage-shaped fruits, native to East Asia.
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C.
Dumetella
Dumetella is a small genus of New World passerine birds best known for including the gray catbird, a mimicking songbird found across much of North America.
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D.
Alphitonia
Alphitonia is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs, commonly known as ash or soap trees, native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Pacific and Asia.
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E.
Reissekia
Reissekia is a small genus of flowering plants in the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae, native to parts of South 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: Daldinia Target entity description: Daldinia is a genus of ascomycete fungi best known for its charcoal-like, concentric fruiting bodies often found on dead or dying wood.
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A.
Pothia
Pothia is the main town and administrative center of the Greek island of Kalymnos, known for its colorful hillside houses and harbor.
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B.
Holboellia
Holboellia is a small genus of woody, often evergreen climbing plants known for their ornamental foliage and sausage-shaped fruits, native to East Asia.
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C.
Dumetella
Dumetella is a small genus of New World passerine birds best known for including the gray catbird, a mimicking songbird found across much of North America.
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D.
Alphitonia
Alphitonia is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs, commonly known as ash or soap trees, native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Pacific and Asia.
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E.
Reissekia
Reissekia is a small genus of flowering plants in the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae, native to parts of South America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | fungal genus ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
angiosperm wood
ⓘ
hardwood logs ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Hypoxylaceae ⓘ |
| class | Sordariomycetes ⓘ |
| classOf | Sordariomycetes ⓘ |
| distribution | cosmopolitan in suitable woody habitats ⓘ |
| division | Ascomycota ⓘ |
| divisionOf | Ascomycota ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole | saprobe ⓘ |
| family | Hypoxylaceae ⓘ |
| fruitingBodyStructure | concentric zones ⓘ |
| fruitingBodyTexture | charcoal-like ⓘ |
| fruitingBodyType | stromatic ascomata ⓘ |
| habitat |
temperate forests
ⓘ
woodland ecosystems ⓘ |
| hasSpecies |
Daldinia bambusicola
ⓘ
Daldinia childiae ⓘ
linked to:
Daldinia
Daldinia concentrica ⓘ
linked to:
Daldinia
Daldinia eschscholtzii ⓘ
linked to:
Daldinia
Daldinia fissa ⓘ
linked to:
Daldinia
Daldinia grandis ⓘ Daldinia lloydii ⓘ
linked to:
Daldinia
Daldinia loculata ⓘ
linked to:
Daldinia
Daldinia petriniae ⓘ
linked to:
Daldinia
Daldinia placentiformis ⓘ
linked to:
Daldinia
Daldinia raimundi ⓘ
linked to:
Daldinia
Daldinia vernicosa ⓘ
linked to:
Daldinia
|
| kingdom | Fungi ⓘ |
| knownFor |
charcoal-like fruiting bodies
ⓘ
concentric internal zoning of stromata ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Agostino Daldini ⓘ |
| order | Xylariales ⓘ |
| orderOf | Xylariales ⓘ |
| phylum | Ascomycota ⓘ |
| reproduction | sexual reproduction via asci ⓘ |
| sporeType | ascospore ⓘ |
| taxonAuthor |
Giuseppe De Notaris
ⓘ
Vincenzo de Cesati ⓘ |
| trophicMode | saprotrophic ⓘ |
| typeSpecies |
Daldinia concentrica
ⓘ
linked to:
Daldinia
|
| typicalSubstrate |
dead wood
ⓘ
dying wood ⓘ |
| yearDescribed | 1863 ⓘ |
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: Daldinia Description of subject: Daldinia is a genus of ascomycete fungi best known for its charcoal-like, concentric fruiting bodies often found on dead or dying wood.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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