Tribulus
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Tribulus is a genus of flowering plants known for its spiny fruits and includes species like Tribulus terrestris, often used in traditional medicine and dietary supplements.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tribulus canonical | 2 |
| Tribulus terrestris | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10960281 — 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: Tribulus Context triple: [Zygophyllales, containsGenus, Tribulus]
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A.
Peganum
Peganum is a small genus of flowering plants best known for species like Peganum harmala, a hardy desert shrub valued in traditional medicine and rituals for its psychoactive and dye-producing seeds.
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B.
Boerhavia
Boerhavia is a genus of flowering plants, commonly known as spiderlings, found in warm regions worldwide and noted for their weedy, sprawling habit and small clustered flowers.
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C.
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.
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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.
Astragalus
Astragalus is a large and diverse genus of flowering plants in the legume family, commonly known as milkvetches and often noted for their ecological importance and use in traditional medicine.
- 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: Tribulus Target entity description: Tribulus is a genus of flowering plants known for its spiny fruits and includes species like Tribulus terrestris, often used in traditional medicine and dietary supplements.
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A.
Peganum
Peganum is a small genus of flowering plants best known for species like Peganum harmala, a hardy desert shrub valued in traditional medicine and rituals for its psychoactive and dye-producing seeds.
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B.
Boerhavia
Boerhavia is a genus of flowering plants, commonly known as spiderlings, found in warm regions worldwide and noted for their weedy, sprawling habit and small clustered flowers.
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C.
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.
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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.
Astragalus
Astragalus is a large and diverse genus of flowering plants in the legume family, commonly known as milkvetches and often noted for their ecological importance and use in traditional medicine.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
plant genus
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plant species ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
claims of enhancing libido
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claims of improving athletic performance ⓘ |
| clade |
Magnoliophyta
ⓘ
surface form:
Angiosperms
Eudicots ⓘ Rosids ⓘ |
| considered | invasive weed in some regions ⓘ |
| containsCompound |
flavonoids
ⓘ
saponins ⓘ |
| describedAs | genus of flowering plants ⓘ |
| distribution |
Africa
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Asia ⓘ Mediterranean region NERFINISHED ⓘ introduced to Australia ⓘ introduced to North America ⓘ |
| family |
Zygophyllaceae
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Zygophyllaceae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genus | Tribulus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
adapted to arid environments
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contains herbaceous species ⓘ contains prostrate species ⓘ produces spiny fruits ⓘ prostrate growth habit ⓘ spiny seed pods ⓘ |
| hasCommonName |
caltrop
ⓘ
puncture vine ⓘ |
| hasSpecies |
Tribulus cistoides
NERFINISHED
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Tribulus omanense NERFINISHED ⓘ Tribulus pentandrus NERFINISHED ⓘ Tribulus terrestris NERFINISHED ⓘ Tribulus zeyheri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTypeSpecies | Tribulus terrestris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
tropical regions
ⓘ
warm temperate regions ⓘ |
| notableSpecies | Tribulus terrestris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| order | Zygophyllales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| taxonRank |
genus
ⓘ
species ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Ayurvedic medicine
NERFINISHED
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dietary supplements ⓘ dietary supplements ⓘ traditional Chinese medicine ⓘ 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: Tribulus Description of subject: Tribulus is a genus of flowering plants known for its spiny fruits and includes species like Tribulus terrestris, often used in traditional medicine and dietary supplements.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tribulus terrestris