Armeria
E295008
Armeria is a genus of flowering plants, commonly known as thrift or sea pinks, often found in coastal and alpine habitats and valued for their dense tufts of grass-like leaves and globular flower heads.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Armeria maritima | 2 |
| Armeria canonical | 1 |
| Armeria alliacea | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2711736 — 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: Armeria Context triple: [Plumbaginaceae, includesGenus, Armeria]
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A.
Limonium
Limonium is a genus of flowering plants commonly known as sea-lavenders, valued for their papery, long-lasting blooms often used in dried floral arrangements.
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B.
Silene
Silene is the legendary city or region traditionally depicted as the setting of the Saint George and the Dragon story in medieval Christian lore.
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C.
Portulaca
Portulaca is a genus of flowering succulent plants, commonly known as purslanes, valued for their drought tolerance and brightly colored blooms.
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D.
Alchemilla
Alchemilla is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants, commonly known as lady’s mantle, noted for their fan-shaped, softly hairy leaves that collect water droplets and their use in traditional herbal medicine.
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E.
Hesperis
Hesperis is a figure from Greek mythology, often associated with the evening or the West and sometimes linked to the Hesperides, the nymphs of the evening and golden light.
- 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: Armeria Target entity description: Armeria is a genus of flowering plants, commonly known as thrift or sea pinks, often found in coastal and alpine habitats and valued for their dense tufts of grass-like leaves and globular flower heads.
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A.
Limonium
Limonium is a genus of flowering plants commonly known as sea-lavenders, valued for their papery, long-lasting blooms often used in dried floral arrangements.
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B.
Silene
Silene is the legendary city or region traditionally depicted as the setting of the Saint George and the Dragon story in medieval Christian lore.
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C.
Portulaca
Portulaca is a genus of flowering succulent plants, commonly known as purslanes, valued for their drought tolerance and brightly colored blooms.
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D.
Alchemilla
Alchemilla is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants, commonly known as lady’s mantle, noted for their fan-shaped, softly hairy leaves that collect water droplets and their use in traditional herbal medicine.
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E.
Hesperis
Hesperis is a figure from Greek mythology, often associated with the evening or the West and sometimes linked to the Hesperides, the nymphs of the evening and golden light.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
plant genus
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| clade |
Magnoliophyta
ⓘ
surface form:
Angiosperms
Core eudicots ⓘ Eudicots ⓘ |
| commonName |
sea pinks
ⓘ
thrift ⓘ |
| describedAs | genus of flowering plants ⓘ |
| distribution |
Europe
ⓘ
Mediterranean Basin ⓘ
surface form:
Mediterranean region
North Africa ⓘ Northern Hemisphere ⓘ western Asia ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole | coastal stabilizing plant ⓘ |
| family | Plumbaginaceae ⓘ |
| flowerColor |
pink
ⓘ
white ⓘ |
| floweringSeason |
early summer
ⓘ
spring ⓘ |
| growthForm |
perennial herb
ⓘ
tuft-forming plant ⓘ |
| habitat |
alpine habitats
ⓘ
coastal habitats ⓘ rocky slopes ⓘ salt marsh margins ⓘ sea cliffs ⓘ |
| inflorescenceType | globular flower heads ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| leafArrangement | basal rosette ⓘ |
| leafType | grass-like leaves ⓘ |
| lightRequirement | full sun ⓘ |
| notableSpecies |
Armeria
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Armeria alliacea
Armeria juniperifolia ⓘ Armeria self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Armeria maritima
|
| order | Caryophyllales ⓘ |
| pollination | insect-pollinated ⓘ |
| propagation |
division
ⓘ
seed ⓘ |
| soilPreference |
sandy soil
ⓘ
well-drained soil ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| tolerance |
drought
ⓘ
poor soils ⓘ salt spray ⓘ |
| usedAs | ornamental plant ⓘ |
| usedIn |
border plantings
ⓘ
coastal gardens ⓘ rock gardens ⓘ |
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: Armeria Description of subject: Armeria is a genus of flowering plants, commonly known as thrift or sea pinks, often found in coastal and alpine habitats and valued for their dense tufts of grass-like leaves and globular flower heads.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Armeria maritima
this entity surface form:
Armeria maritima
this entity surface form:
Armeria alliacea