Urtica

E10149

Urtica is a genus of herbaceous plants best known for its stinging nettles, which have tiny hairs that can irritate the skin.

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All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Urtica canonical 5
Urtica dioica 3
Urtica ferox 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf genus
taxon
belongsToClade angiosperms
eudicots
rosids
commonName nettles
contains stinging trichomes
containsCompound acetylcholine (in stinging hairs)
formic acid (in stinging hairs)
histamine (in stinging hairs)
serotonin (in stinging hairs)
distribution worldwide in suitable climates
ecologicalRole host plant for butterfly larvae
nitrogen indicator plant
family Urticaceae
flowerType small inconspicuous flowers
growthForm annual herb
perennial herb
habitat disturbed soils
riverbanks
woodland edges
hasCharacteristic herbaceous plants
stinging hairs
urticating hairs
hasEffect skin irritation
stinging sensation on contact
includesSpecies Urtica self-linksurface differs
surface form: Urtica dioica

Urtica self-linksurface differs
surface form: Urtica ferox

Urtica self-linksurface differs
surface form: Urtica pilulifera

Urtica self-linksurface differs
surface form: Urtica urens
kingdom Plantae
leafMargin serrated margin
leafType simple leaves
nativeTo subtropical regions
temperate regions
notableFor stinging nettles
order Rosales
pollination wind-pollinated
reproduction by seed
vegetative via rhizomes (in some species)
taxonRank genus
typeOf flowering plant genus
usedFor fiber production (in some species)
fodder (after processing)
food (young shoots and leaves)
traditional medicine

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: Urtica
Description of subject: Urtica is a genus of herbaceous plants best known for its stinging nettles, which have tiny hairs that can irritate the skin.

Referenced by (11)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Rosales includes Urtica
Urtica includesSpecies Urtica self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Urtica dioica
Urtica includesSpecies Urtica self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Urtica urens
Urtica includesSpecies Urtica self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Urtica ferox
Urtica includesSpecies Urtica self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Urtica pilulifera
Urticaceae includesGenus Urtica
Urticaceae notableSpecies Urtica
this entity surface form: Urtica dioica
nettle family containsGenus Urtica
subject surface form: Urticaceae
nettle family notableSpecies Urtica
subject surface form: Urticaceae
this entity surface form: Urtica dioica
Girardinia similarTo Urtica
Urticoideae hasMember Urtica