Nicotiana

E416634

plant genus taxon

Nicotiana is a genus of flowering plants best known for including tobacco species cultivated worldwide for their leaves and nicotine content.

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All labels observed (8)

Label	Occurrences
Nicotiana canonical	3
Nicotiana rustica	3
Nicotiana alata	1
Nicotiana attenuata	1
Nicotiana benthamiana	1
Nicotiana glauca	1
Nicotiana longiflora	1
Nicotiana otophora	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	plant genus ⓘ taxon ⓘ
belongsToSubfamily	Nicotianoideae ⓘ
class	Magnoliopsida ⓘ
commonName	tobacco plants ⓘ
containsChemical	nicotine ⓘ
containsCompound	anabasine ⓘ nornicotine ⓘ pyridine alkaloids ⓘ
distribution	cultivated worldwide ⓘ
economicImportance	major global cash crop source ⓘ source of nicotine for insecticides ⓘ
family	Solanaceae ⓘ
flowerCharacteristic	often fragrant at night ⓘ tubular flowers ⓘ
growthForm	herbaceous plants ⓘ small shrubs ⓘ
hasSpecies	Nicotiana self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Nicotiana alata Nicotiana self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Nicotiana attenuata Nicotiana self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Nicotiana benthamiana Nicotiana self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Nicotiana glauca Nicotiana self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Nicotiana longiflora Nicotiana self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Nicotiana otophora Nicotiana self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Nicotiana rustica Nicotiana sylvestris ⓘ Nicotiana tabacum ⓘ Nicotiana tomentosiformis ONNED1 ⓘ
hasUse	chewing tobacco products ⓘ commercial tobacco production ⓘ molecular biology model systems ⓘ ornamental horticulture ⓘ recreational smoking products ⓘ scientific research on alkaloids ⓘ snuff production ⓘ
isKnownFor	nicotine content ⓘ production of tobacco leaves ⓘ
kingdom	Plantae ⓘ
leafCharacteristic	broad leaves ⓘ often sticky or glandular ⓘ
namedAfter	Jean Nicot ⓘ
nativeTo	Americas ⓘ Australia ⓘ South Pacific ⓘ
order	Solanales ⓘ
photosynthesisType	C3 ⓘ
phylum	Tracheophyta ⓘ
pollination	insect-pollinated ⓘ moth-pollinated ⓘ
reproductiveType	flowering plant ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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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
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- 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: Nicotiana
Description of subject: Nicotiana is a genus of flowering plants best known for including tobacco species cultivated worldwide for their leaves and nicotine content.

Referenced by (12)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Solanaceae → includesGenus → Nicotiana ⓘ

Solanaceae → includesSpecies → Nicotiana ⓘ

this entity surface form: Nicotiana rustica

Nicotiana tabacum → genus → Nicotiana ⓘ

Nicotiana tabacum → relatedTo → Nicotiana ⓘ

this entity surface form: Nicotiana rustica

Solanales → representativeGenus → Nicotiana ⓘ