International Plant Names Index
E669726
The International Plant Names Index is an online database that provides standardized bibliographic details and authorship information for the scientific names of seed plants, ferns, and lycophytes worldwide.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| International Plant Names Index canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7527869 — 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: International Plant Names Index Context triple: [Hensl., standardizedBy, International Plant Names Index]
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A.
The Plant List
The Plant List is a comprehensive online database that aims to provide a working list of all known plant species, serving as a key reference for botanical nomenclature and taxonomy.
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B.
Plants of the World Online
Plants of the World Online is a comprehensive online database and reference resource managed by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, providing taxonomic and distribution information on plant species worldwide.
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C.
Tropicos botanical database
Tropicos botanical database is an online resource maintained by the Missouri Botanical Garden that provides comprehensive taxonomic and nomenclatural information on plant species worldwide.
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D.
Lois de la nomenclature botanique
Lois de la nomenclature botanique is a foundational 19th-century work that established systematic rules for naming plants, helping to standardize modern botanical nomenclature.
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E.
Global Biodiversity Information Facility
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is an international open-data infrastructure that provides free access to biodiversity occurrence records from institutions and citizen-science projects worldwide.
- 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: International Plant Names Index Target entity description: The International Plant Names Index is an online database that provides standardized bibliographic details and authorship information for the scientific names of seed plants, ferns, and lycophytes worldwide.
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A.
The Plant List
The Plant List is a comprehensive online database that aims to provide a working list of all known plant species, serving as a key reference for botanical nomenclature and taxonomy.
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B.
Plants of the World Online
Plants of the World Online is a comprehensive online database and reference resource managed by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, providing taxonomic and distribution information on plant species worldwide.
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C.
Tropicos botanical database
Tropicos botanical database is an online resource maintained by the Missouri Botanical Garden that provides comprehensive taxonomic and nomenclatural information on plant species worldwide.
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D.
Lois de la nomenclature botanique
Lois de la nomenclature botanique is a foundational 19th-century work that established systematic rules for naming plants, helping to standardize modern botanical nomenclature.
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E.
Global Biodiversity Information Facility
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is an international open-data infrastructure that provides free access to biodiversity occurrence records from institutions and citizen-science projects worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (62)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
online database
ⓘ
taxonomic database ⓘ |
| accessMode | online ⓘ |
| accessPolicy | open access ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
provide a comprehensive listing of published plant names
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standardize bibliographic information for plant nomenclature ⓘ |
| coversTaxa |
ferns
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lycophytes ⓘ seed plants ⓘ |
| dataSource |
botanical literature
ⓘ
herbarium records ⓘ |
| dataUpdated | continuously ⓘ |
| developedBy |
Australian National Herbarium
NERFINISHED
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Harvard University Herbaria NERFINISHED ⓘ Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| doesNotProvide |
synonymy decisions
ⓘ
taxonomic status assessments ⓘ |
| field |
botany
ⓘ
nomenclature ⓘ plant taxonomy ⓘ |
| focusesOn | published names rather than taxonomic opinions ⓘ |
| geographicScope | global ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | IPNI NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
downloadable data (selected subsets)
ⓘ
web interface ⓘ |
| hasIdentifier | ISSN 1471-0005 (online resource identifier, where applicable) ⓘ |
| hasPartner |
Australian National Herbarium
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Harvard University Herbaria NERFINISHED ⓘ Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includes |
author abbreviations for plant names
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page references for protologues ⓘ place of publication of plant names ⓘ publication year of plant names ⓘ |
| integratesDataFrom |
Australian Plant Name Index
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gray Herbarium Index NERFINISHED ⓘ Index Kewensis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isReferencedBy |
The Plant List (historical)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
World Checklist of Vascular Plants NERFINISHED ⓘ World Flora Online NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| license | non-commercial use encouraged (policy may apply) ⓘ |
| mainSubject | scientific names of plants ⓘ |
| provides |
authorship information for plant names
ⓘ
information on nomenclatural authors ⓘ original publication citations ⓘ publication details for plant names ⓘ standardized bibliographic details ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Australian Plant Name Index
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gray Herbarium Index NERFINISHED ⓘ Index Kewensis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| taxonomicScope |
pteridophytes
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seed plants ⓘ vascular plants ⓘ |
| usedBy |
biodiversity databases
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botanists ⓘ herbaria ⓘ taxonomists ⓘ |
| usedFor |
compiling floras and checklists
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nomenclatural verification ⓘ standardizing plant name citations ⓘ taxonomic research ⓘ |
| website | https://www.ipni.org ⓘ |
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: International Plant Names Index Description of subject: The International Plant Names Index is an online database that provides standardized bibliographic details and authorship information for the scientific names of seed plants, ferns, and lycophytes worldwide.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
J.R. Forst. & G. Forst.