Saussurea
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Saussurea is a genus of flowering plants in the aster family, known for its high-altitude Himalayan species and culturally significant flowers such as the Brahma kamal.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Saussurea canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7344656 — 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: Saussurea Context triple: [Brahma kamal, genus, Saussurea]
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A.
Saussurea obvallata
Saussurea obvallata is a rare, high-altitude Himalayan flowering plant revered in Indian culture and religion, especially in the regions of Uttarakhand and the Western Himalayas.
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B.
Goniolimon
Goniolimon is a genus of flowering plants known for its tufted, often salt-tolerant perennials with papery, long-lasting inflorescences commonly used in dried floral arrangements.
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C.
Caryophyllus
Caryophyllus is a historical genus of flowering plants in the carnation family, Caryophyllaceae, once used for species now typically placed in the genus Dianthus.
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D.
Dictamnus
Dictamnus is a small genus of aromatic, herbaceous plants known for their volatile oils that can be ignited, commonly called the burning bush or gas plant.
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E.
Taraxacum
Taraxacum is a genus of flowering plants best known for the common dandelions, widespread weeds with yellow flower heads and distinctive wind-dispersed seed heads.
- 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: Saussurea Target entity description: Saussurea is a genus of flowering plants in the aster family, known for its high-altitude Himalayan species and culturally significant flowers such as the Brahma kamal.
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A.
Saussurea obvallata
Saussurea obvallata is a rare, high-altitude Himalayan flowering plant revered in Indian culture and religion, especially in the regions of Uttarakhand and the Western Himalayas.
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B.
Goniolimon
Goniolimon is a genus of flowering plants known for its tufted, often salt-tolerant perennials with papery, long-lasting inflorescences commonly used in dried floral arrangements.
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C.
Caryophyllus
Caryophyllus is a historical genus of flowering plants in the carnation family, Caryophyllaceae, once used for species now typically placed in the genus Dianthus.
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D.
Dictamnus
Dictamnus is a small genus of aromatic, herbaceous plants known for their volatile oils that can be ignited, commonly called the burning bush or gas plant.
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E.
Taraxacum
Taraxacum is a genus of flowering plants best known for the common dandelions, widespread weeds with yellow flower heads and distinctive wind-dispersed seed heads.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (85)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
plant genus
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taxon ⓘ |
| adaptedTo |
cold climates
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high-altitude environments ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Angiosperms ⓘ |
| class | Magnoliopsida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| division | Magnoliophyta ⓘ |
| family | Asteraceae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
herbaceous
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often spiny or woolly ⓘ perennial ⓘ |
| hasCommonName |
saw-wort
ⓘ
snow lotus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance | Brahma kamal in Himalayan cultures ⓘ |
| hasFlowerType | capitulum (flower head) ⓘ |
| hasNotableRegionOfDiversity |
Central Asia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
China NERFINISHED ⓘ Himalayas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfOrganism | flowering plant ⓘ |
| includesSpecies |
Saussurea alpina
NERFINISHED
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Saussurea alpina subsp. saussureoides NERFINISHED ⓘ Saussurea amara NERFINISHED ⓘ Saussurea americana NERFINISHED ⓘ Saussurea amurensis NERFINISHED ⓘ Saussurea bullockii NERFINISHED ⓘ Saussurea candicans NERFINISHED ⓘ Saussurea ceratocarpa NERFINISHED ⓘ Saussurea costus NERFINISHED ⓘ Saussurea elegans NERFINISHED ⓘ Saussurea esthonica NERFINISHED ⓘ Saussurea fastuosa NERFINISHED ⓘ Saussurea frolovii NERFINISHED ⓘ Saussurea glacialis NERFINISHED ⓘ Saussurea globosa NERFINISHED ⓘ Saussurea gnaphalodes NERFINISHED ⓘ Saussurea gossypiphora NERFINISHED ⓘ Saussurea grandifolia NERFINISHED ⓘ Saussurea hieracioides NERFINISHED ⓘ Saussurea involucrata NERFINISHED ⓘ Saussurea japonica NERFINISHED ⓘ Saussurea laniceps NERFINISHED ⓘ Saussurea latifolia NERFINISHED ⓘ Saussurea leontodontoides NERFINISHED ⓘ Saussurea medusa NERFINISHED ⓘ Saussurea nepalensis NERFINISHED ⓘ Saussurea nigrescens NERFINISHED ⓘ Saussurea nuda NERFINISHED ⓘ Saussurea obvallata NERFINISHED ⓘ Saussurea orgaadayi NERFINISHED ⓘ Saussurea pachyneura NERFINISHED ⓘ Saussurea parviflora NERFINISHED ⓘ Saussurea petrovii NERFINISHED ⓘ Saussurea pulchella NERFINISHED ⓘ Saussurea pygmaea NERFINISHED ⓘ Saussurea raphanifolia NERFINISHED ⓘ Saussurea riederi NERFINISHED ⓘ Saussurea salsa NERFINISHED ⓘ Saussurea schanginiana NERFINISHED ⓘ Saussurea simpsoniana NERFINISHED ⓘ Saussurea stella NERFINISHED ⓘ Saussurea superba NERFINISHED ⓘ Saussurea taraxacifolia NERFINISHED ⓘ Saussurea tomentosa NERFINISHED ⓘ Saussurea tridactyla NERFINISHED ⓘ Saussurea ussuriensis NERFINISHED ⓘ Saussurea velutina NERFINISHED ⓘ Saussurea weberi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Horace-Bénédict de Saussure NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Arctic regions
NERFINISHED
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Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ Himalayas NERFINISHED ⓘ Tibetan Plateau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| order | Asterales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parentTaxon | Asteraceae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pollinatedBy | insects ⓘ |
| subfamily | Carduoideae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| tribe | Cardueae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| typicalHabitat |
alpine meadows
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rocky scree ⓘ subalpine slopes ⓘ |
| usedFor |
ornamental purposes
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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: Saussurea Description of subject: Saussurea is a genus of flowering plants in the aster family, known for its high-altitude Himalayan species and culturally significant flowers such as the Brahma kamal.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.