Marcgraviaceae
E1001659
Marcgraviaceae is a family of primarily Neotropical flowering plants known for their often epiphytic vines and shrubs with distinctive, sometimes nectar-bearing bracts that attract pollinators such as hummingbirds.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marcgraviaceae canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12728526 — 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: Marcgraviaceae Context triple: [Ericales, containsFamily, Marcgraviaceae]
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A.
Menispermaceae
Menispermaceae is a family of mostly tropical climbing plants known for their often toxic alkaloids and distinctive curved or crescent-shaped seeds.
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B.
Rafflesiaceae
Rafflesiaceae is a family of parasitic flowering plants best known for producing some of the world’s largest and foul-smelling blooms, including the corpse flower Rafflesia arnoldii.
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C.
Lardizabalaceae
Lardizabalaceae is a small family of mostly woody, often climbing flowering plants known for their ornamental foliage and sometimes edible fruits, native primarily to East Asia and the Andes.
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D.
Mayacaceae
Mayacaceae is a small family of grass-like, often aquatic or marsh-dwelling flowering plants found mainly in tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas and Africa.
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E.
Donatiaceae
Donatiaceae is a small family of flowering plants within the order Asterales, known for its limited number of species and specialized distribution.
- 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: Marcgraviaceae Target entity description: Marcgraviaceae is a family of primarily Neotropical flowering plants known for their often epiphytic vines and shrubs with distinctive, sometimes nectar-bearing bracts that attract pollinators such as hummingbirds.
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A.
Menispermaceae
Menispermaceae is a family of mostly tropical climbing plants known for their often toxic alkaloids and distinctive curved or crescent-shaped seeds.
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B.
Rafflesiaceae
Rafflesiaceae is a family of parasitic flowering plants best known for producing some of the world’s largest and foul-smelling blooms, including the corpse flower Rafflesia arnoldii.
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C.
Lardizabalaceae
Lardizabalaceae is a small family of mostly woody, often climbing flowering plants known for their ornamental foliage and sometimes edible fruits, native primarily to East Asia and the Andes.
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D.
Mayacaceae
Mayacaceae is a small family of grass-like, often aquatic or marsh-dwelling flowering plants found mainly in tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas and Africa.
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E.
Donatiaceae
Donatiaceae is a small family of flowering plants within the order Asterales, known for its limited number of species and specialized distribution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
plant family
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| clade |
Magnoliophyta
ⓘ
surface form:
Angiosperms
Eudicots ⓘ |
| commonName | marcgravia family ⓘ |
| distribution |
Caribbean
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Central America NERFINISHED ⓘ Neotropics NERFINISHED ⓘ South America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole |
canopy epiphytes
ⓘ
structural components of tropical forests ⓘ |
| firstDescribedBy | Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstDescriptionYear | 1829 ⓘ |
| floweringPlant | true ⓘ |
| fruitType |
berry-like fruit
ⓘ
capsule ⓘ |
| growthForm |
epiphytes
ⓘ
lianas ⓘ shrubs ⓘ small trees ⓘ |
| habitat | tropical rainforests ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
nectar-bearing bracts
ⓘ
often pendent inflorescences ⓘ specialized pollination structures ⓘ |
| includedGenus |
Caracasia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Marcgravia NERFINISHED ⓘ Norantea NERFINISHED ⓘ Ruyschia NERFINISHED ⓘ Sarcopera NERFINISHED ⓘ Schwartzia NERFINISHED ⓘ Souroubea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| leafArrangement | alternate ⓘ |
| leafMargin | entire ⓘ |
| leafType | simple leaves ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Georg Marcgrave NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeRange | Neotropics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfGenera | approximately 7 ⓘ |
| numberOfSpecies | approximately 130 ⓘ |
| order | Ericales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| photosyntheticPathway | C3 ⓘ |
| pollinationSyndrome | ornithophily ⓘ |
| pollinator |
bats
ⓘ
hummingbirds ⓘ insects ⓘ |
| seedDispersal | animals ⓘ |
| taxonRank | family ⓘ |
| typeGenus | Marcgravia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Marcgraviaceae Description of subject: Marcgraviaceae is a family of primarily Neotropical flowering plants known for their often epiphytic vines and shrubs with distinctive, sometimes nectar-bearing bracts that attract pollinators such as hummingbirds.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.