DC.
E231042
DC. is the standard botanical author abbreviation for Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, a prominent Swiss botanist known for his influential work in plant taxonomy.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| A.DC. | 2 |
| DC. canonical | 1 |
| DC. Prodr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2082101 — 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: DC. Context triple: [Fabales, taxonAuthorAbbreviation, DC.]
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A.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. is the capital city of the United States, serving as the nation’s political center and home to its federal government institutions.
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B.
Downtown Washington, D.C.
Downtown Washington, D.C. is the central business and commercial district of the U.S. capital, known for its dense concentration of offices, government buildings, cultural institutions, and major landmarks.
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C.
US-DC
US-DC is the ISO 3166-2 code representing the District of Columbia, the federal district containing the capital city of the United States, Washington, D.C.
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D.
Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. are two major East Coast U.S. cities—one in Pennsylvania and the other the nation’s capital—linked by dense political, economic, and cultural ties.
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E.
Bethesda, Maryland
Bethesda, Maryland is a suburban community just northwest of Washington, D.C., known for its major medical and research institutions, affluent residential areas, and vibrant downtown.
- 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: DC. Target entity description: DC. is the standard botanical author abbreviation for Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, a prominent Swiss botanist known for his influential work in plant taxonomy.
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A.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. is the capital city of the United States, serving as the nation’s political center and home to its federal government institutions.
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B.
Downtown Washington, D.C.
Downtown Washington, D.C. is the central business and commercial district of the U.S. capital, known for its dense concentration of offices, government buildings, cultural institutions, and major landmarks.
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C.
US-DC
US-DC is the ISO 3166-2 code representing the District of Columbia, the federal district containing the capital city of the United States, Washington, D.C.
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D.
Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. are two major East Coast U.S. cities—one in Pennsylvania and the other the nation’s capital—linked by dense political, economic, and cultural ties.
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E.
Bethesda, Maryland
Bethesda, Maryland is a suburban community just northwest of Washington, D.C., known for its major medical and research institutions, affluent residential areas, and vibrant downtown.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
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: DC. Description of subject: DC. is the standard botanical author abbreviation for Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, a prominent Swiss botanist known for his influential work in plant taxonomy.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
DC. Prodr.
this entity surface form:
A.DC.
this entity surface form:
A.DC.