Maloideae
E282584
Maloideae is a subfamily of flowering plants in the rose family (Rosaceae), best known for including many fruit-bearing trees and shrubs such as apples, pears, and related genera.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maloideae canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2615018 — 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: Maloideae Context triple: [Photinia, subfamily, Maloideae]
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A.
Ehrhartoideae
Ehrhartoideae is a subfamily of grasses that includes important cereal crops such as rice and related species.
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B.
Polygonoideae
Polygonoideae is a subfamily of flowering plants within the knotweed family Polygonaceae, comprising many herbaceous species and shrubs often characterized by swollen stem nodes and sheathing stipules.
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C.
Taxodioideae
Taxodioideae is a subfamily of coniferous trees in the cypress family (Cupressaceae), including genera such as Taxodium, Cryptomeria, and Glyptostrobus, known for their large, often deciduous, swamp- or forest-dwelling species.
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D.
Dirachmaceae
Dirachmaceae is a small family of flowering plants in the order Rosales, comprising rare shrubs or small trees native to arid regions of the Horn of Africa and nearby areas.
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E.
Eriogonoideae
Eriogonoideae is a subfamily of flowering plants within the knotweed family Polygonaceae, comprising mostly herbaceous and shrubby species often found in arid and temperate regions.
- 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: Maloideae Target entity description: Maloideae is a subfamily of flowering plants in the rose family (Rosaceae), best known for including many fruit-bearing trees and shrubs such as apples, pears, and related genera.
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A.
Ehrhartoideae
Ehrhartoideae is a subfamily of grasses that includes important cereal crops such as rice and related species.
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B.
Polygonoideae
Polygonoideae is a subfamily of flowering plants within the knotweed family Polygonaceae, comprising many herbaceous species and shrubs often characterized by swollen stem nodes and sheathing stipules.
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C.
Taxodioideae
Taxodioideae is a subfamily of coniferous trees in the cypress family (Cupressaceae), including genera such as Taxodium, Cryptomeria, and Glyptostrobus, known for their large, often deciduous, swamp- or forest-dwelling species.
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D.
Dirachmaceae
Dirachmaceae is a small family of flowering plants in the order Rosales, comprising rare shrubs or small trees native to arid regions of the Horn of Africa and nearby areas.
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E.
Eriogonoideae
Eriogonoideae is a subfamily of flowering plants within the knotweed family Polygonaceae, comprising mostly herbaceous and shrubby species often found in arid and temperate regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
plant subfamily
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| belongsToClade |
angiosperms
ⓘ
Eudicots ⓘ
surface form:
eudicots
rosids ⓘ |
| class | Magnoliopsida ⓘ |
| containsTaxon |
Amelanchier
ⓘ
Aronia ⓘ Cotoneaster ⓘ Crataegus ⓘ Cydonia ⓘ Malus ⓘ Mespilus ⓘ Photinia ⓘ Pyrus ⓘ Sorbus ⓘ |
| distribution | temperate regions ⓘ |
| division | Magnoliophyta ⓘ |
| economicImportance | fruit production ⓘ |
| family | Rosaceae ⓘ |
| floweringPlant | true ⓘ |
| fruitType | pome ⓘ |
| growthForm |
shrub
ⓘ
tree ⓘ |
| hasCommonName | apple subfamily ⓘ |
| hasEdibleFruit | true ⓘ |
| includesCommonCrop |
apple
ⓘ
hawthorn ⓘ pear ⓘ quince ⓘ rowan ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| notableFor |
fruit-bearing shrubs
ⓘ
fruit-bearing trees ⓘ |
| order | Rosales ⓘ |
| parentTaxon | Rosaceae ⓘ |
| pollination | insect-pollinated ⓘ |
| reproductiveStructure | flower ⓘ |
| subfamilyOf | Rosaceae ⓘ |
| taxonomicRank | subfamily ⓘ |
| taxonomicStatus | sometimes treated as tribe Maleae within Rosaceae ⓘ |
| typeOf | flowering plant subfamily ⓘ |
| usedFor |
food
ⓘ
ornamental planting ⓘ |
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: Maloideae Description of subject: Maloideae is a subfamily of flowering plants in the rose family (Rosaceae), best known for including many fruit-bearing trees and shrubs such as apples, pears, and related genera.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.