Lamiaceae
E95553
Lamiaceae is a large family of flowering plants, commonly known as the mint or deadnettle family, that includes many aromatic herbs such as mint, basil, rosemary, and lavender.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lamiaceae canonical | 28 |
| Labiatae (Lamiaceae) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T767725 — 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: Lamiaceae Context triple: [Eudicots, includes, Lamiaceae]
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A.
Caryophyllaceae
Caryophyllaceae is a large family of flowering plants, commonly known as the pink or carnation family, that includes many herbaceous species found worldwide, especially in temperate regions.
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B.
Asteraceae
Asteraceae is one of the largest families of flowering plants, commonly known as the aster, daisy, or sunflower family, encompassing a wide variety of herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees found worldwide.
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C.
Ulmaceae
Ulmaceae is a family of flowering trees and shrubs best known for including the elms, which are widespread in temperate regions.
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D.
Brassicaceae
Brassicaceae is a large family of flowering plants, commonly known as the mustard or cabbage family, that includes many important crops such as cabbage, broccoli, and canola.
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E.
Hydrastidaceae
Hydrastidaceae is a small family of flowering plants within the order Ranunculales, best known for the medicinal herb goldenseal (Hydrastis canadensis).
- 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: Lamiaceae Target entity description: Lamiaceae is a large family of flowering plants, commonly known as the mint or deadnettle family, that includes many aromatic herbs such as mint, basil, rosemary, and lavender.
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A.
Caryophyllaceae
Caryophyllaceae is a large family of flowering plants, commonly known as the pink or carnation family, that includes many herbaceous species found worldwide, especially in temperate regions.
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B.
Asteraceae
Asteraceae is one of the largest families of flowering plants, commonly known as the aster, daisy, or sunflower family, encompassing a wide variety of herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees found worldwide.
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C.
Ulmaceae
Ulmaceae is a family of flowering trees and shrubs best known for including the elms, which are widespread in temperate regions.
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D.
Brassicaceae
Brassicaceae is a large family of flowering plants, commonly known as the mustard or cabbage family, that includes many important crops such as cabbage, broccoli, and canola.
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E.
Hydrastidaceae
Hydrastidaceae is a small family of flowering plants within the order Ranunculales, best known for the medicinal herb goldenseal (Hydrastis canadensis).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
plant family
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taxon ⓘ |
| class | Magnoliopsida ⓘ |
| commonName |
deadnettle family
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mint family ⓘ |
| contains |
Ajuga reptans
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Coleus scutellarioides ⓘ Glechoma hederacea ⓘ Hyssopus officinalis ⓘ Lamium purpureum ⓘ Lavandula angustifolia ⓘ Leonurus cardiaca ⓘ Marrubium vulgare ⓘ Melissa officinalis ⓘ Mentha ⓘ Monarda didyma ⓘ Nepeta cataria ⓘ Ocimum basilicum ⓘ
linked to:
Basil
Origanum vulgare ⓘ Perilla frutescens ⓘ Plectranthus amboinicus ⓘ Prunella vulgaris ⓘ Rosmarinus officinalis ⓘ
linked to:
Rosemary
Salvia hispanica ⓘ Salvia officinalis ⓘ Salvia rosmarinus ⓘ
linked to:
Rosemary
Salvia splendens ⓘ Stachys officinalis ⓘ Teucrium chamaedrys ⓘ Thymus vulgaris ⓘ Vitex agnus-castus ⓘ |
| distribution | cosmopolitan ⓘ |
| division | Magnoliophyta ⓘ |
| economicUse |
culinary herbs
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medicinal plants ⓘ ornamental plants ⓘ sources of essential oils ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
flowers typically bilabiate (two-lipped)
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leaves usually opposite ⓘ many species are aromatic ⓘ many species contain essential oils ⓘ often has square stems ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| notableGenus |
Lavandula
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Mentha ⓘ Origanum ⓘ Salvia ⓘ Thymus ⓘ |
| order | Lamiales ⓘ |
| taxonRank | family ⓘ |
| typeOf | flowering plant family ⓘ |
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: Lamiaceae Description of subject: Lamiaceae is a large family of flowering plants, commonly known as the mint or deadnettle family, that includes many aromatic herbs such as mint, basil, rosemary, and lavender.
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.