Index Herbariorum
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Index Herbariorum is an international directory and reference resource that catalogs the world’s herbaria and their associated staff, providing standardized acronyms and institutional information for botanical research.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Index Herbariorum canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12950523 — 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: Index Herbariorum Context triple: [HER, assignedBy, Index Herbariorum]
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A.
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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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.
World Flora Online
World Flora Online is a comprehensive, collaborative digital database that aims to document all known plant species worldwide.
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D.
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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E.
Index Kewensis
Index Kewensis is a comprehensive botanical reference work that catalogues the scientific names of seed plants worldwide, serving as a key resource for plant taxonomists.
- 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: Index Herbariorum Target entity description: Index Herbariorum is an international directory and reference resource that catalogs the world’s herbaria and their associated staff, providing standardized acronyms and institutional information for botanical research.
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A.
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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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.
World Flora Online
World Flora Online is a comprehensive, collaborative digital database that aims to document all known plant species worldwide.
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D.
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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E.
Index Kewensis
Index Kewensis is a comprehensive botanical reference work that catalogues the scientific names of seed plants worldwide, serving as a key resource for plant taxonomists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
botanical resource
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online database ⓘ reference work ⓘ scientific directory ⓘ |
| audience |
biodiversity researchers
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botanists ⓘ herbarium curators ⓘ taxonomists ⓘ |
| covers |
governmental herbaria
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museum herbaria ⓘ private herbaria ⓘ public herbaria ⓘ university herbaria ⓘ |
| dataType |
geospatial metadata
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institutional metadata ⓘ personnel metadata ⓘ |
| describes |
herbaria
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herbarium staff ⓘ |
| field |
botany
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herbarium science ⓘ plant taxonomy ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
online database
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printed reference work ⓘ |
| includes |
contact email or phone
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country information ⓘ herbarium code ⓘ institution address ⓘ institution name ⓘ staff names ⓘ staff positions ⓘ |
| isUsedIn |
biodiversity databases
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botanical publications ⓘ floras ⓘ monographic works ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| provides |
administrative information on herbaria
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geographical information on herbaria ⓘ institutional contact information ⓘ staff directory information ⓘ standardized herbarium acronyms ⓘ |
| purpose |
to catalog the world’s herbaria
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to standardize herbarium acronyms ⓘ to support botanical research ⓘ |
| scope | global ⓘ |
| supports | standardization of herbarium abbreviations ⓘ |
| use |
finding contact information for herbaria
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identifying herbarium acronyms in scientific literature ⓘ locating plant specimens ⓘ supporting taxonomic and floristic studies ⓘ |
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: Index Herbariorum Description of subject: Index Herbariorum is an international directory and reference resource that catalogs the world’s herbaria and their associated staff, providing standardized acronyms and institutional information for botanical research.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.