Cymbidium
E854837
Cymbidium is a popular genus of orchids known for its long-lasting, showy flowers and frequent use in ornamental horticulture and floral arrangements.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cymbidium canonical | 2 |
| Cymbidium eburneum | 1 |
| Cymbidium ensifolium | 1 |
| Cymbidium lowianum | 1 |
| Cymbidium sinense | 1 |
| Cymbidium tracyanum | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10249273 — 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: Cymbidium Context triple: [Asparagales, includesGenus, Cymbidium]
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A.
Cattleya
Cattleya is an Italian film and television production company known for producing acclaimed movies and international TV series.
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B.
Phalaenopsis
Phalaenopsis is a popular genus of tropical orchids, often called moth orchids, known for their long-lasting, colorful flowers and frequent use as ornamental houseplants.
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C.
Bottiaea
Bottiaea was an ancient historical region in northern Greece, later incorporated into the kingdom of Macedon.
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D.
Vanda
Vanda is the Swedish name for Vantaa, a major city in the Helsinki metropolitan area of southern Finland.
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E.
Polygonanthus
Polygonanthus is a small genus of tropical flowering trees native to South America, known for its occurrence in wet forest habitats.
- 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: Cymbidium Target entity description: Cymbidium is a popular genus of orchids known for its long-lasting, showy flowers and frequent use in ornamental horticulture and floral arrangements.
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A.
Cattleya
Cattleya is an Italian film and television production company known for producing acclaimed movies and international TV series.
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B.
Phalaenopsis
Phalaenopsis is a popular genus of tropical orchids, often called moth orchids, known for their long-lasting, colorful flowers and frequent use as ornamental houseplants.
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C.
Bottiaea
Bottiaea was an ancient historical region in northern Greece, later incorporated into the kingdom of Macedon.
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D.
Vanda
Vanda is the Swedish name for Vantaa, a major city in the Helsinki metropolitan area of southern Finland.
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E.
Polygonanthus
Polygonanthus is a small genus of tropical flowering trees native to South America, known for its occurrence in wet forest habitats.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
genus
ⓘ
orchid genus ⓘ |
| clade |
Angiosperms
ⓘ
linked to:
Magnoliophyta
Monocots ⓘ
linked to:
Liliopsida
|
| commonName | boat orchids ⓘ |
| cultivatedAs |
garden plant
ⓘ
greenhouse plant ⓘ |
| describedBy | Olof Swartz ⓘ |
| describedInYear | 1799 ⓘ |
| family | Orchidaceae ⓘ |
| flowerCharacteristic |
long-lasting flowers
ⓘ
showy flowers ⓘ |
| flowerColor |
brown
ⓘ
green ⓘ pink ⓘ red ⓘ white ⓘ yellow ⓘ |
| floweringSeason |
spring
ⓘ
winter ⓘ |
| growthForm |
epiphytic
ⓘ
lithophytic ⓘ terrestrial ⓘ |
| habitat |
montane forests
ⓘ
subtropical regions ⓘ |
| hasNotableSpecies |
Cymbidium eburneum
ⓘ
linked to:
Cymbidium
Cymbidium ensifolium ⓘ
linked to:
Cymbidium
Cymbidium goeringii ⓘ Cymbidium lowianum ⓘ
linked to:
Cymbidium
Cymbidium sinense ⓘ
linked to:
Cymbidium
Cymbidium tracyanum ⓘ
linked to:
Cymbidium
|
| hasStructure |
pseudobulbs
ⓘ
strap-like leaves ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Asia
ⓘ
Australia ⓘ China ⓘ Himalayas ⓘ Japan ⓘ Southeast Asia ⓘ |
| order | Asparagales ⓘ |
| pollination | insects ⓘ |
| subfamily | Epidendroideae ⓘ |
| subtribe | Cymbidiinae ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| tribe |
Cymbidieae
ⓘ
linked to:
Epidendroideae
|
| usedFor |
cut flowers
ⓘ
floral arrangements ⓘ ornamental horticulture ⓘ potted plants ⓘ |
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: Cymbidium Description of subject: Cymbidium is a popular genus of orchids known for its long-lasting, showy flowers and frequent use in ornamental horticulture and floral arrangements.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Cymbidium
linked to: Cymbidium
linked to: Cymbidium
linked to: Cymbidium
linked to: Cymbidium