Clarkia
E1039620
Clarkia is a genus of flowering plants native mainly to western North America, known for their showy, colorful blooms often cultivated as ornamental garden annuals.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clarkia canonical | 1 |
| Clarkia amoena | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13395944 — 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: Clarkia Context triple: [Onagraceae, includesGenus, Clarkia]
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A.
Calochortus
Calochortus is a genus of North American flowering plants in the lily family, known for their showy, tulip-like or star-shaped blossoms often called mariposa lilies.
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B.
Ivesia
Ivesia is a small genus of flowering plants in the rose family (Rosaceae), commonly known as mousetail or ivesia, native mainly to western North America and adapted to rocky, mountainous habitats.
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C.
Larkspur
Larkspur is a small, affluent city in Marin County, California, known for its charming historic downtown and role as a commuter hub to San Francisco via nearby ferry services.
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D.
Aquilegia
Aquilegia is a genus of ornamental flowering plants, commonly known as columbines, prized for their distinctive spurred blossoms and wide range of colors in temperate gardens.
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E.
California poppy
The California poppy is a brightly colored, orange-gold wildflower native to western North America, widely recognized for its silky petals and drought tolerance.
- 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: Clarkia Target entity description: Clarkia is a genus of flowering plants native mainly to western North America, known for their showy, colorful blooms often cultivated as ornamental garden annuals.
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A.
Calochortus
Calochortus is a genus of North American flowering plants in the lily family, known for their showy, tulip-like or star-shaped blossoms often called mariposa lilies.
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B.
Ivesia
Ivesia is a small genus of flowering plants in the rose family (Rosaceae), commonly known as mousetail or ivesia, native mainly to western North America and adapted to rocky, mountainous habitats.
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C.
Larkspur
Larkspur is a small, affluent city in Marin County, California, known for its charming historic downtown and role as a commuter hub to San Francisco via nearby ferry services.
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D.
Aquilegia
Aquilegia is a genus of ornamental flowering plants, commonly known as columbines, prized for their distinctive spurred blossoms and wide range of colors in temperate gardens.
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E.
California poppy
The California poppy is a brightly colored, orange-gold wildflower native to western North America, widely recognized for its silky petals and drought tolerance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
plant genus
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| clade |
Magnoliophyta
ⓘ
surface form:
Angiosperms
Eudicots ⓘ Rosids ⓘ |
| commonName |
clarkia
ⓘ
farewell-to-spring ⓘ |
| cultivatedAs | garden annual ⓘ |
| distribution |
California
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
western United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eponym | William Clark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| family | Onagraceae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flowerColor |
pink
ⓘ
purple ⓘ red ⓘ white ⓘ |
| flowerType | showy flowers ⓘ |
| growthHabit | annual herb ⓘ |
| habitat |
chaparral
ⓘ
grasslands ⓘ woodlands ⓘ |
| hasSpecies |
Clarkia amoena
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Clarkia arcuata NERFINISHED ⓘ Clarkia biloba NERFINISHED ⓘ Clarkia bottae NERFINISHED ⓘ Clarkia breweri NERFINISHED ⓘ Clarkia concinna NERFINISHED ⓘ Clarkia dudleyana NERFINISHED ⓘ Clarkia epilobioides NERFINISHED ⓘ Clarkia franciscana NERFINISHED ⓘ Clarkia heterandra NERFINISHED ⓘ Clarkia imbricata NERFINISHED ⓘ Clarkia jolonensis NERFINISHED ⓘ Clarkia lassenensis NERFINISHED ⓘ Clarkia lewisii NERFINISHED ⓘ Clarkia lingulata NERFINISHED ⓘ Clarkia mildrediae NERFINISHED ⓘ Clarkia mosquinii NERFINISHED ⓘ Clarkia rhomboidea NERFINISHED ⓘ Clarkia rostrata NERFINISHED ⓘ Clarkia rubicunda NERFINISHED ⓘ Clarkia similis NERFINISHED ⓘ Clarkia speciosa NERFINISHED ⓘ Clarkia springvillensis NERFINISHED ⓘ Clarkia tembloriensis NERFINISHED ⓘ Clarkia unguiculata NERFINISHED ⓘ Clarkia xantiana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTypeSpecies | Clarkia pulchella NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| namedAfter | William Clark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
North America
ⓘ
western North America ⓘ |
| order | Myrtales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| photosyntheticPathway | C3 photosynthesis ⓘ |
| pollination | insect-pollinated ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| usedAs | ornamental plant ⓘ |
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: Clarkia Description of subject: Clarkia is a genus of flowering plants native mainly to western North America, known for their showy, colorful blooms often cultivated as ornamental garden annuals.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Clarkia amoena