Dacryodes
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Dacryodes is a genus of tropical trees and shrubs known for their resinous wood and edible fruits, commonly found in rainforests of Africa and the Americas.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dacryodes canonical | 1 |
| Dacryodes edulis | 1 |
| Dacryodes excelsa | 1 |
| Dacryodes rostrata | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6328653 — 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: Dacryodes Context triple: [Burseraceae, hasNotableGenus, Dacryodes]
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A.
Pterocarpus
Pterocarpus is a genus of tropical leguminous trees known for their valuable hardwoods, including species that produce padauk and African rosewood.
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B.
Ptaeroxylon
Ptaeroxylon is a small genus of flowering plants known for the sneeze-inducing properties of its wood, native to southern Africa.
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C.
Dimocarpus
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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D.
Coccoloba
Coccoloba is a genus of flowering plants in the buckwheat family, best known for species like sea grape that grow in tropical and subtropical coastal regions.
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E.
Pteroceltis
Pteroceltis is a small genus of deciduous trees known for their papermaking bark and ornamental value, native to East Asia.
- 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: Dacryodes Target entity description: Dacryodes is a genus of tropical trees and shrubs known for their resinous wood and edible fruits, commonly found in rainforests of Africa and the Americas.
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A.
Pterocarpus
Pterocarpus is a genus of tropical leguminous trees known for their valuable hardwoods, including species that produce padauk and African rosewood.
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B.
Ptaeroxylon
Ptaeroxylon is a small genus of flowering plants known for the sneeze-inducing properties of its wood, native to southern Africa.
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C.
Dimocarpus
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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D.
Coccoloba
Coccoloba is a genus of flowering plants in the buckwheat family, best known for species like sea grape that grow in tropical and subtropical coastal regions.
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E.
Pteroceltis
Pteroceltis is a small genus of deciduous trees known for their papermaking bark and ornamental value, native to East Asia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
plant genus
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| belongsToFamily | Burseraceae ⓘ |
| clade |
Angiosperms
ⓘ
linked to:
Magnoliophyta
Eudicots ⓘ Rosids ⓘ |
| describedIn | botanical taxonomy of Burseraceae ⓘ |
| dispersal | animal-dispersed ⓘ |
| economicUse |
edible fruit
ⓘ
resin ⓘ timber ⓘ |
| family | Burseraceae ⓘ |
| fruitType | drupe ⓘ |
| growthForm |
shrub
ⓘ
tree ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
edible fruits
ⓘ
resinous wood ⓘ |
| hasCommonName | dacryodes ⓘ |
| isFruitBearing | true ⓘ |
| isResinProducing | true ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| nativeHabitat | tropical rainforest ⓘ |
| nativeRange |
Africa
ⓘ
Central America ⓘ South America ⓘ |
| notableSpecies |
Dacryodes edulis
ⓘ
linked to:
Dacryodes
Dacryodes excelsa ⓘ
linked to:
Dacryodes
Dacryodes rostrata ⓘ
linked to:
Dacryodes
|
| order | Sapindales ⓘ |
| photosyntheticPathway | C3 ⓘ |
| pollination | insect-pollinated ⓘ |
| resinUse |
incense
ⓘ
traditional medicine ⓘ varnish ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
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: Dacryodes Description of subject: Dacryodes is a genus of tropical trees and shrubs known for their resinous wood and edible fruits, commonly found in rainforests of Africa and the Americas.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Dacryodes
linked to: Dacryodes
linked to: Dacryodes