World Flora Online
E952879
World Flora Online is a comprehensive, collaborative digital database that aims to document all known plant species worldwide.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| World Flora Online canonical | 5 |
| World Flora Online Consortium | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11852847 — 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: World Flora Online Context triple: [Colignonia, isListedIn, World Flora Online]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
International Plant Names Index
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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D.
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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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: World Flora Online Target entity description: World Flora Online is a comprehensive, collaborative digital database that aims to document all known plant species worldwide.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
International Plant Names Index
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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D.
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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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 (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biodiversity database
ⓘ
global flora project ⓘ online database ⓘ taxonomic database ⓘ |
| abbreviation | WFO ⓘ |
| accessPolicy | open access ⓘ |
| aimsToSupport |
biodiversity assessment
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environmental policy ⓘ plant conservation ⓘ |
| coordinatedBy |
World Flora Online Consortium
ⓘ
linked to:
World Flora Online
|
| coverage | global ⓘ |
| dataFormat |
downloadable datasets (for some components)
ⓘ
web interface ⓘ |
| dataSource |
International Plant Names Index
ⓘ
The Plant List ⓘ Tropicos ⓘ
linked to:
Tropicos botanical database
World Checklist of Selected Plant Families ⓘ regional floras and checklists ⓘ |
| discipline |
botany
ⓘ
systematics ⓘ taxonomy ⓘ |
| focus |
bryophytes
ⓘ
vascular plants ⓘ |
| goal |
to document all known plant species worldwide
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to provide an online flora of all known plants ⓘ |
| hasContent |
accepted plant names
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bibliographic references ⓘ descriptions for some taxa ⓘ distribution data ⓘ synonyms ⓘ taxonomic backbone ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
distribution maps (for some taxa)
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filtering by family and genus ⓘ searchable taxon pages ⓘ |
| hasIdentifierSystem | WFO ID ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| license | varies by data source ⓘ |
| name | World Flora Online ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Convention on Biological Diversity
ⓘ
Global Strategy for Plant Conservation ⓘ |
| status | ongoing project ⓘ |
| subject | plants ⓘ |
| supportedBy |
Botanic Gardens Conservation International
ⓘ
Missouri Botanical Garden ⓘ New York Botanical Garden ⓘ Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh ⓘ Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew ⓘ
linked to:
Kew
other partner herbaria and institutions ⓘ |
| updated | regularly ⓘ |
| usesIdentifier | LSID (for some records) ⓘ |
| website | http://www.worldfloraonline.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: World Flora Online Description of subject: World Flora Online is a comprehensive, collaborative digital database that aims to document all known plant species worldwide.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: World Flora Online