Gilmania
E932222
Gilmania is a little-known genus of flowering plants in the knotweed family (Polygonaceae), native to arid regions of the southwestern United States.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gilmania canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11549504 — 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: Gilmania Context triple: [Polygonoideae, containsTaxon, Gilmania]
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A.
Rhodelia
Rhodelia is an unincorporated rural community located in Meade County, Kentucky, United States.
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B.
Grosmannia
Grosmannia is a genus of ascomycete fungi, many of which are important tree pathogens often associated with bark beetles and blue-stain of conifer wood.
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C.
Vepris
Vepris is a genus of flowering plants in the citrus family Rutaceae, comprising mostly trees and shrubs native to tropical Africa and nearby regions.
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D.
Glycine falcata
Glycine falcata is a species of wild legume in the genus Glycine, related to cultivated soybeans and native to parts of Australia.
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E.
Reissekia
Reissekia is a small genus of flowering plants in the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae, native to parts of South America.
- 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: Gilmania Target entity description: Gilmania is a little-known genus of flowering plants in the knotweed family (Polygonaceae), native to arid regions of the southwestern United States.
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A.
Rhodelia
Rhodelia is an unincorporated rural community located in Meade County, Kentucky, United States.
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B.
Grosmannia
Grosmannia is a genus of ascomycete fungi, many of which are important tree pathogens often associated with bark beetles and blue-stain of conifer wood.
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C.
Vepris
Vepris is a genus of flowering plants in the citrus family Rutaceae, comprising mostly trees and shrubs native to tropical Africa and nearby regions.
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D.
Glycine falcata
Glycine falcata is a species of wild legume in the genus Glycine, related to cultivated soybeans and native to parts of Australia.
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E.
Reissekia
Reissekia is a small genus of flowering plants in the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae, native to parts of South America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
plant genus
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| belongsToGroup | knotweed family ⓘ |
| clade |
Angiosperms
ⓘ
linked to:
Magnoliophyta
Core eudicots ⓘ
linked to:
Eudicots
Eudicots ⓘ |
| commonName | Gilmania ⓘ |
| describedAs | little-known genus of flowering plants in the knotweed family ⓘ |
| distribution |
North America
ⓘ
desert regions of the southwestern United States ⓘ |
| family | Polygonaceae ⓘ |
| habitat | arid environments ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic | flowering plants ⓘ |
| hasScientificName | Gilmania ⓘ |
| isLittleKnown | true ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Southwestern United States
ⓘ
linked to:
southwestern United States
arid regions ⓘ |
| order | Caryophyllales ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
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: Gilmania Description of subject: Gilmania is a little-known genus of flowering plants in the knotweed family (Polygonaceae), native to arid regions of the southwestern United States.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.