Camassia
E822115
Camassia is a small genus of North American flowering plants known for their star-shaped blue or white blooms and edible bulbs historically used as a food source by Indigenous peoples.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Camassia canonical | 2 |
| Camassia quamash | 2 |
| Camassia angusta | 1 |
| Camassia cusickii | 1 |
| Camassia howellii | 1 |
| Camassia leichtlinii | 1 |
| Camassia scilloides | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9799830 — 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: Camassia Context triple: [Asparagaceae, includesGenus, Camassia]
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A.
Claytonia
Claytonia is a small genus of flowering plants commonly known as spring beauties, valued for their delicate early-season blooms in temperate regions.
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B.
Sego lily
The Sego lily is a delicate, white-petaled wildflower native to the western United States, particularly associated with Utah, where it holds cultural and historical significance.
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C.
Liatris
Liatris is a genus of North American flowering plants known for their tall spikes of purple or white blooms, commonly called blazing stars or gayfeathers and popular in ornamental gardening.
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D.
Aquilegia
Aquilegia is a genus of ornamental flowering plants, commonly known as columbines, prized for their distinctive spurred blossoms and wide range of colors in temperate gardens.
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E.
Delphinium
Delphinium is a genus of tall, showy flowering plants known for their striking spikes of blue, purple, or white blossoms commonly grown in ornamental gardens.
- 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: Camassia Target entity description: Camassia is a small genus of North American flowering plants known for their star-shaped blue or white blooms and edible bulbs historically used as a food source by Indigenous peoples.
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A.
Claytonia
Claytonia is a small genus of flowering plants commonly known as spring beauties, valued for their delicate early-season blooms in temperate regions.
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B.
Sego lily
The Sego lily is a delicate, white-petaled wildflower native to the western United States, particularly associated with Utah, where it holds cultural and historical significance.
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C.
Liatris
Liatris is a genus of North American flowering plants known for their tall spikes of purple or white blooms, commonly called blazing stars or gayfeathers and popular in ornamental gardening.
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D.
Aquilegia
Aquilegia is a genus of ornamental flowering plants, commonly known as columbines, prized for their distinctive spurred blossoms and wide range of colors in temperate gardens.
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E.
Delphinium
Delphinium is a genus of tall, showy flowering plants known for their striking spikes of blue, purple, or white blossoms commonly grown in ornamental gardens.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
genus
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| clade |
Angiosperms
ⓘ
linked to:
Magnoliophyta
Monocots ⓘ
linked to:
Liliopsida
|
| describedBy | Lindl. ⓘ |
| distributionRegion |
Great Plains
ⓘ
Pacific Northwest ⓘ Rocky Mountains ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole | early-season nectar source for pollinators ⓘ |
| family | Asparagaceae ⓘ |
| flowerColor |
blue
ⓘ
white ⓘ |
| floweringSeason | spring ⓘ |
| flowerShape | star-shaped ⓘ |
| growthForm | bulb-forming plant ⓘ |
| habitat |
grasslands
ⓘ
moist meadows ⓘ open woodlands ⓘ |
| hasCommonName |
Indian hyacinth
ⓘ
camas ⓘ camas lily ⓘ quamash ⓘ |
| hasEdiblePart | bulb ⓘ |
| hasSpecies |
Camassia angusta
ⓘ
linked to:
Camassia
Camassia cusickii ⓘ
linked to:
Camassia
Camassia howellii ⓘ
linked to:
Camassia
Camassia leichtlinii ⓘ
linked to:
Camassia
Camassia quamash ⓘ
linked to:
Camassia
Camassia scilloides ⓘ
linked to:
Camassia
|
| hasTypeSpecies |
Camassia quamash
ⓘ
linked to:
Camassia
|
| historicalUse | staple carbohydrate food for some Indigenous groups ⓘ |
| isCultivatedAs | ornamental plant ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| lifeForm | perennial herb ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
North America
ⓘ
western North America ⓘ |
| order | Asparagales ⓘ |
| photosyntheticPathway | C3 ⓘ |
| pollination | insect-pollinated ⓘ |
| preparationMethod | traditionally pit-roasted ⓘ |
| reproduction |
sexual reproduction via seeds
ⓘ
vegetative reproduction via bulbs ⓘ |
| riskOfConfusionWith |
Zigadenus (deathcamas)
ⓘ
linked to:
Zigadenus
|
| subfamily | Agavoideae ⓘ |
| taxonomicRank | genus ⓘ |
| toxicity | generally non-toxic when correctly identified and cooked ⓘ |
| usedAs | food source ⓘ |
| usedBy | Indigenous peoples of North America ⓘ |
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: Camassia Description of subject: Camassia is a small genus of North American flowering plants known for their star-shaped blue or white blooms and edible bulbs historically used as a food source by Indigenous peoples.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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