Rubiaceae
E288940
Rubiaceae is a large family of flowering plants that includes economically important species such as coffee, gardenias, and quinine-producing cinchona trees.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rubiaceae canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2671219 — 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: Rubiaceae Context triple: [Asterids, includesFamily, Rubiaceae]
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A.
Araceae
Araceae is a large family of flowering monocot plants known for their often showy, sometimes foul-smelling inflorescences composed of a spadix surrounded by a spathe, including popular ornamentals like philodendrons and peace lilies.
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B.
Rosoideae
Rosoideae is a subfamily of flowering plants in the rose family (Rosaceae) that includes genera such as roses, strawberries, and raspberries.
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C.
Lauraceae
Lauraceae is a large family of mostly aromatic flowering trees and shrubs that includes economically important species such as laurels, cinnamon, avocado, and camphor.
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D.
Lamiaceae
Lamiaceae is a large family of flowering plants, commonly known as the mint or deadnettle family, that includes many aromatic herbs such as mint, basil, rosemary, and lavender.
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E.
Vitaceae
Vitaceae is a family of flowering plants best known for grapevines, many of which produce edible grapes and are cultivated worldwide for fruit and wine.
- 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: Rubiaceae Target entity description: Rubiaceae is a large family of flowering plants that includes economically important species such as coffee, gardenias, and quinine-producing cinchona trees.
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A.
Araceae
Araceae is a large family of flowering monocot plants known for their often showy, sometimes foul-smelling inflorescences composed of a spadix surrounded by a spathe, including popular ornamentals like philodendrons and peace lilies.
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B.
Rosoideae
Rosoideae is a subfamily of flowering plants in the rose family (Rosaceae) that includes genera such as roses, strawberries, and raspberries.
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C.
Lauraceae
Lauraceae is a large family of mostly aromatic flowering trees and shrubs that includes economically important species such as laurels, cinnamon, avocado, and camphor.
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D.
Lamiaceae
Lamiaceae is a large family of flowering plants, commonly known as the mint or deadnettle family, that includes many aromatic herbs such as mint, basil, rosemary, and lavender.
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E.
Vitaceae
Vitaceae is a family of flowering plants best known for grapevines, many of which produce edible grapes and are cultivated worldwide for fruit and wine.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (72)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
plant family
ⓘ
taxonomic family ⓘ |
| class | Magnoliopsida ⓘ |
| commonName | coffee family ⓘ |
| containsTaxon |
Anthocephalus
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Bouvardia ⓘ Cephalanthus ⓘ Cinchona ⓘ Cinchona officinalis ⓘ Coffea ⓘ Coffea ⓘ
surface form:
Coffea arabica
Coffea ⓘ
surface form:
Coffea canephora
Coprosma ⓘ Galium ⓘ Gardenia ⓘ Gardenia ⓘ
surface form:
Gardenia jasminoides
Hamelia ⓘ Hedyotis ⓘ Houstonia ⓘ Ixora ⓘ Mitchella ⓘ Morinda ⓘ Morinda citrifolia ⓘ Mussaenda ⓘ Nertera ⓘ Oldenlandia ⓘ Pavetta ⓘ Pentas ⓘ Psychotria ⓘ Randia ⓘ Rubia ⓘ Serissa ⓘ Spermacoce ⓘ Uncaria ⓘ |
| distribution |
cosmopolitan
ⓘ
subtropical regions ⓘ temperate regions ⓘ tropical regions ⓘ |
| division | Magnoliophyta ⓘ |
| economicUse |
coffee production
ⓘ
medicinal plants ⓘ ornamental plants ⓘ source of dyes ⓘ source of quinine ⓘ |
| flowerSymmetry | radial symmetry ⓘ |
| flowerType | actinomorphic flowers ⓘ |
| fruitType |
berry
ⓘ
capsule ⓘ drupe ⓘ |
| growthForm |
herbs
ⓘ
lianas ⓘ shrubs ⓘ trees ⓘ |
| isA | family of flowering plants ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| leafArrangement |
opposite leaves
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whorled leaves ⓘ |
| leafCharacteristic |
entire margins
ⓘ
interpetiolar stipules ⓘ simple leaves ⓘ |
| notableSpecies |
Cinchona officinalis
ⓘ
Arabica ⓘ
surface form:
Coffea arabica
Coffea canephora ⓘ Gardenia ⓘ
surface form:
Gardenia jasminoides
Morinda citrifolia ⓘ |
| order | Gentianales ⓘ |
| pollination |
bird-pollinated
ⓘ
insect-pollinated ⓘ |
| reproductiveFeature |
epigynous flowers
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inferior ovary ⓘ syncarpous gynoecium ⓘ |
| taxonRank | family ⓘ |
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: Rubiaceae Description of subject: Rubiaceae is a large family of flowering plants that includes economically important species such as coffee, gardenias, and quinine-producing cinchona trees.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.