Eurycoma
E588788
Eurycoma is a small genus of tropical flowering plants, best known for species like Eurycoma longifolia (tongkat ali), whose roots are widely used in traditional medicine as a tonic and aphrodisiac.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eurycoma canonical | 4 |
| Eurycoma longifolia | 2 |
| Eurycoma apiculata | 1 |
| Eurycoma harmandiana | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6381670 — 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: Eurycoma Context triple: [Simaroubaceae, containsTaxon, Eurycoma]
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A.
Tinospora
Tinospora is a genus of climbing shrubs known for their medicinally used stems and widespread occurrence in tropical and subtropical regions.
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B.
Glycosmis
Glycosmis is a genus of flowering shrubs and small trees known for their aromatic foliage and small berry-like fruits, native mainly to tropical and subtropical regions of Asia and Australia.
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C.
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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D.
Withania
Withania is a small genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, best known for species like Withania somnifera (ashwagandha), which is widely used in traditional medicine.
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E.
Sapindus
Sapindus is a genus of trees and shrubs commonly known as soapberries or soapnuts, noted for their saponin-rich fruits traditionally used as a natural soap and detergent.
- 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: Eurycoma Target entity description: Eurycoma is a small genus of tropical flowering plants, best known for species like Eurycoma longifolia (tongkat ali), whose roots are widely used in traditional medicine as a tonic and aphrodisiac.
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A.
Tinospora
Tinospora is a genus of climbing shrubs known for their medicinally used stems and widespread occurrence in tropical and subtropical regions.
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B.
Glycosmis
Glycosmis is a genus of flowering shrubs and small trees known for their aromatic foliage and small berry-like fruits, native mainly to tropical and subtropical regions of Asia and Australia.
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C.
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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D.
Withania
Withania is a small genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, best known for species like Withania somnifera (ashwagandha), which is widely used in traditional medicine.
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E.
Sapindus
Sapindus is a genus of trees and shrubs commonly known as soapberries or soapnuts, noted for their saponin-rich fruits traditionally used as a natural soap and detergent.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
plant genus
ⓘ
plant species ⓘ taxon ⓘ |
| clade |
Angiosperms
ⓘ
linked to:
Magnoliophyta
Eudicots ⓘ Rosids ⓘ |
| commonName |
longjack
ⓘ
tongkat ali ⓘ |
| family |
Simaroubaceae
ⓘ
Simaroubaceae ⓘ |
| genus |
Eurycoma
ⓘ
Eurycoma ⓘ Eurycoma ⓘ |
| hasBioactiveCompounds |
alkaloids
ⓘ
quassinoids ⓘ |
| hasSpecies |
Eurycoma apiculata
ⓘ
linked to:
Eurycoma
Eurycoma harmandiana ⓘ
linked to:
Eurycoma
Eurycoma longifolia ⓘ
linked to:
Eurycoma
|
| hasTypeSpecies |
Eurycoma longifolia
ⓘ
linked to:
Eurycoma
|
| isFloweringPlantGenus | true ⓘ |
| isKnownFor |
aphrodisiac properties
ⓘ
medicinal roots ⓘ tonic properties ⓘ |
| isTropical |
true
ⓘ
true ⓘ |
| isUsedInTraditionalMedicine | true ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Indonesia
ⓘ
Malaysia ⓘ Southeast Asia ⓘ Thailand ⓘ Vietnam ⓘ
linked to:
Viet Nam
|
| order | Sapindales ⓘ |
| partUsed | root ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| usedAs |
aphrodisiac
ⓘ
tonic ⓘ traditional medicine ⓘ |
| usedFor |
general vitality in traditional medicine
ⓘ
male sexual health in 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: Eurycoma Description of subject: Eurycoma is a small genus of tropical flowering plants, best known for species like Eurycoma longifolia (tongkat ali), whose roots are widely used in traditional medicine as a tonic and aphrodisiac.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Eurycoma
linked to: Eurycoma
linked to: Eurycoma
linked to: Eurycoma