Lagerstroemia (crape myrtle)
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Lagerstroemia, commonly known as crape myrtle, is a genus of ornamental flowering trees and shrubs prized for their vibrant summer blooms, colorful bark, and use in landscape plantings.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lagerstroemia | 1 |
| Lagerstroemia (crape myrtle) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1126911 — 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: Lagerstroemia (crape myrtle) Context triple: [Crape Myrtle Allee, hasPlantSpecies, Lagerstroemia (crape myrtle)]
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A.
Hibiscus syriacus
Hibiscus syriacus is a hardy flowering shrub, commonly known as the rose of Sharon, celebrated for its showy blooms and cultural significance, particularly in East Asia.
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B.
Magnolia
Magnolia is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs known for their large, fragrant blossoms and broad, glossy leaves, widely associated with the American South.
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Yellow jessamine
Yellow jessamine is a fragrant, yellow-flowering vine native to the southeastern United States, commonly grown as an ornamental plant despite its toxic properties.
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D.
Eastern redbud
The Eastern redbud is a small deciduous tree native to eastern North America, celebrated for its early spring display of bright pink blossoms along bare branches.
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E.
Elaeagnus
Elaeagnus is a genus of flowering shrubs and small trees, commonly known as oleasters or silverberries, valued for their hardiness, silvery foliage, and often edible, nutrient-rich fruits.
- 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: Lagerstroemia (crape myrtle) Target entity description: Lagerstroemia, commonly known as crape myrtle, is a genus of ornamental flowering trees and shrubs prized for their vibrant summer blooms, colorful bark, and use in landscape plantings.
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A.
Hibiscus syriacus
Hibiscus syriacus is a hardy flowering shrub, commonly known as the rose of Sharon, celebrated for its showy blooms and cultural significance, particularly in East Asia.
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B.
Magnolia
Magnolia is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs known for their large, fragrant blossoms and broad, glossy leaves, widely associated with the American South.
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C.
Yellow jessamine
Yellow jessamine is a fragrant, yellow-flowering vine native to the southeastern United States, commonly grown as an ornamental plant despite its toxic properties.
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D.
Eastern redbud
The Eastern redbud is a small deciduous tree native to eastern North America, celebrated for its early spring display of bright pink blossoms along bare branches.
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E.
Schinus
Schinus is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs commonly known for species like the Peruvian pepper tree, some of which produce pink peppercorns used as a spice.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
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: Lagerstroemia (crape myrtle) Description of subject: Lagerstroemia, commonly known as crape myrtle, is a genus of ornamental flowering trees and shrubs prized for their vibrant summer blooms, colorful bark, and use in landscape plantings.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Myrtales
this entity surface form:
Lagerstroemia