Mandragora

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Mandragora is a small genus of often toxic, folklore-famous flowering plants known as mandrakes, traditionally associated with magical and medicinal uses.

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All labels observed (7)

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf plant genus
taxon
associatedWith love potions
magic
protective charms
witchcraft
caution potentially lethal in high doses
clade Magnoliophyta
surface form: Angiosperms

Eudicots
commonName mandrakes
containsCompound atropine
hyoscyamine
scopolamine
tropane alkaloids
cultivatedFor esoteric and occult use
ornamental purposes
family Solanaceae
fruitColor orange
yellow
hasEffect anticholinergic
hallucinogenic
sedative
hasFlowerColor greenish-white
purple
hasFlowerType solitary flowers
hasFruitType berry
hasGrowthForm perennial herb
hasLeafArrangement basal rosette
hasRootType thick taproot
hasSpecies Mandragora self-linksurface differs
surface form: Mandragora autumnalis

Mandragora self-linksurface differs
surface form: Mandragora caulescens

Mandragora self-linksurface differs
surface form: Mandragora chinghaiensis

Mandragora self-linksurface differs
surface form: Mandragora officinarum

Mandragora self-linksurface differs
surface form: Mandragora turcomanica
isFamousIn European folklore
Middle Eastern folklore
isToxic true
kingdom Plantae
mentionedIn ancient medical texts
medieval herbals
nativeTo Himalayan region
Mediterranean region
Middle East
order Solanales
taxonRank genus
usedFor magical practices
ritual practices
traditional medicine

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
- 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: Mandragora
Description of subject: Mandragora is a small genus of often toxic, folklore-famous flowering plants known as mandrakes, traditionally associated with magical and medicinal uses.

Referenced by (8)

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

Solanaceae includesGenus Mandragora
Solanaceae includesSpecies Mandragora
this entity surface form: Mandragora officinarum
Epic mainCharacter Mandragora
this entity surface form: Mandrake
Mandragora hasSpecies Mandragora self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Mandragora officinarum
Mandragora hasSpecies Mandragora self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Mandragora autumnalis
Mandragora hasSpecies Mandragora self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Mandragora turcomanica
Mandragora hasSpecies Mandragora self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Mandragora caulescens
Mandragora hasSpecies Mandragora self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Mandragora chinghaiensis