Withania
E416641
Withania is a small genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, best known for species like Withania somnifera (ashwagandha), which is widely used in traditional medicine.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Withania somnifera | 3 |
| Withania canonical | 2 |
| Withania coagulans | 1 |
| Withania frutescens | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4161911 — 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: Withania Context triple: [Solanaceae, includesGenus, Withania]
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A.
Tinospora
Tinospora is a genus of climbing shrubs known for their medicinally used stems and widespread occurrence in tropical and subtropical regions.
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B.
Cocculus carolinus
Cocculus carolinus is a woody climbing vine native to the southeastern United States, known for its bright red berries and use as an ornamental plant.
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C.
Indigofera
Indigofera is a large genus of flowering legumes best known for species that produce natural indigo dye and are found in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide.
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D.
Stephania tetrandra
Stephania tetrandra is a climbing plant species in the moonseed family known for its traditional use in Chinese medicine, particularly for its anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties.
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E.
Cissampelos
Cissampelos is a genus of climbing flowering plants known for their twining vines and traditional medicinal uses, belonging to the moonseed family.
- 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: Withania Target entity description: Withania is a small genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, best known for species like Withania somnifera (ashwagandha), which is widely used in traditional medicine.
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A.
Tinospora
Tinospora is a genus of climbing shrubs known for their medicinally used stems and widespread occurrence in tropical and subtropical regions.
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B.
Cocculus carolinus
Cocculus carolinus is a woody climbing vine native to the southeastern United States, known for its bright red berries and use as an ornamental plant.
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C.
Indigofera
Indigofera is a large genus of flowering legumes best known for species that produce natural indigo dye and are found in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide.
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D.
Stephania tetrandra
Stephania tetrandra is a climbing plant species in the moonseed family known for its traditional use in Chinese medicine, particularly for its anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties.
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E.
Cissampelos
Cissampelos is a genus of climbing flowering plants known for their twining vines and traditional medicinal uses, belonging to the moonseed family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
medicinal plant
ⓘ
plant genus ⓘ plant species ⓘ taxon ⓘ |
| belongsTo | nightshade family ⓘ |
| clade |
Magnoliophyta
ⓘ
surface form:
Angiosperms
Asterids ⓘ Eudicots ⓘ |
| commonName |
ashwagandha
ⓘ
withanias ⓘ |
| containsSpecies |
Withania
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Withania coagulans
Withania self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Withania frutescens
Withania self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Withania somnifera
|
| describedAs | small genus of flowering plants ⓘ |
| family | Solanaceae ONNED1 ⓘ |
| genus | Withania self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| hasEconomicUse | medicinal raw material ⓘ |
| hasFlowerType | bisexual flowers ⓘ |
| hasGrowthForm |
shrubs
ⓘ
subshrubs ⓘ |
| hasPhytochemical |
alkaloids
ⓘ
withanolides ⓘ |
| isA |
flowering plant genus
ⓘ
medicinal plant genus ⓘ nightshade genus ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Withania
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Withania somnifera
ashwagandha ⓘ |
| leafType | simple leaves ⓘ |
| lifeCycle | perennial plants ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
India
ⓘ
Mediterranean region ⓘ Middle East ⓘ North Africa ⓘ Old World ⓘ Pakistan ⓘ South Asia ⓘ Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| order | Solanales ⓘ |
| pollination | insect-pollinated ⓘ |
| reproduction | sexual reproduction via seeds ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Ayurveda
ⓘ
surface form:
Ayurvedic medicine
Galenic medicine ⓘ
surface form:
Unani medicine
folk medicine ⓘ 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: Withania Description of subject: Withania is a small genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, best known for species like Withania somnifera (ashwagandha), which is widely used in traditional medicine.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Withania somnifera
this entity surface form:
Withania somnifera
this entity surface form:
Withania somnifera
this entity surface form:
Withania coagulans
this entity surface form:
Withania frutescens