Larrea
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Larrea is a genus of hardy desert shrubs in the caltrop family, best known for the creosote bush that dominates many arid landscapes of the Americas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Larrea canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3910250 — 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: Larrea Context triple: [Larrea tridentata, genus, Larrea]
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A.
Requena
Requena is a historic inland town in Spain’s Valencian Community, known for its wine production and well-preserved medieval quarter.
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B.
Caleruega
Caleruega is a small town in the province of Burgos, Spain, best known as the birthplace of Saint Dominic, founder of the Dominican Order.
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C.
Gorbea
Gorbea is a small Chilean municipality and town located in the Araucanía Region, known for its agricultural activities and rural character.
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D.
Espinosa
Espinosa is a neighborhood (barrio) within the municipality of Dorado in Puerto Rico.
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E.
Cosío
Cosío is a small municipality and town located in the northern part of the Mexican state of Aguascalientes.
- 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: Larrea Target entity description: Larrea is a genus of hardy desert shrubs in the caltrop family, best known for the creosote bush that dominates many arid landscapes of the Americas.
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A.
Requena
Requena is a historic inland town in Spain’s Valencian Community, known for its wine production and well-preserved medieval quarter.
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B.
Caleruega
Caleruega is a small town in the province of Burgos, Spain, best known as the birthplace of Saint Dominic, founder of the Dominican Order.
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C.
Gorbea
Gorbea is a small Chilean municipality and town located in the Araucanía Region, known for its agricultural activities and rural character.
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D.
Espinosa
Espinosa is a neighborhood (barrio) within the municipality of Dorado in Puerto Rico.
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E.
Cosío
Cosío is a small municipality and town located in the northern part of the Mexican state of Aguascalientes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
genus of plants
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plant species ⓘ plant species ⓘ plant species ⓘ |
| adaptation |
drought tolerance
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heat tolerance ⓘ water-use efficiency ⓘ |
| clade |
Magnoliophyta
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surface form:
Angiosperms
Eudicots ⓘ Rosids ⓘ |
| commonName |
creosote bush
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creosote bushes ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole |
dominant shrub in many desert ecosystems
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provides habitat for desert fauna ⓘ |
| family | Zygophyllaceae ⓘ |
| genus | Larrea self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| growthForm | evergreen shrub ⓘ |
| habitat |
Chihuahuan Desert
ⓘ
Mojave Desert ⓘ Sonoran Desert ⓘ arid regions ⓘ deserts ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| leafType | small resinous leaves ⓘ |
| lifespanCharacteristic | long-lived clonal colonies ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Juan Antonio Hernández Pérez de Larrea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Americas
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Argentina ⓘ Chile ⓘ North America ⓘ South America ⓘ Northern Mexico ⓘ
surface form:
northern Mexico
southwestern United States ⓘ |
| notableFeature | strong creosote-like odor after rain ⓘ |
| notableSpecies |
Larrea divaricata
ⓘ
Larrea divaricata ⓘ
surface form:
Larrea nitida
Larrea tridentata ⓘ |
| order | Zygophyllales ⓘ |
| photosyntheticPathway | C3 ⓘ |
| pollination | insect-pollinated ⓘ |
| reproduction |
sexual reproduction via flowers
ⓘ
vegetative reproduction ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| uses |
erosion control in arid lands
ⓘ
traditional medicine ⓘ |
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: Larrea Description of subject: Larrea is a genus of hardy desert shrubs in the caltrop family, best known for the creosote bush that dominates many arid landscapes of the Americas.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.