Hamamelidaceae

E458687

plant family taxon

Hamamelidaceae is a family of flowering plants best known for shrubs and small trees such as witch-hazels, often valued for their ornamental flowers and medicinal uses.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Hamamelidaceae canonical	1

Statements (55)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	plant family ⓘ taxon ⓘ
bestKnownFor	shrubs ⓘ small trees ⓘ
clade	Magnoliophyta ⓘ surface form: Angiosperms Eudicots ⓘ
commonName	witch‑hazel family NERFINISHED ⓘ
distribution	mainly temperate regions ⓘ some species in subtropical and tropical regions ⓘ
economicUse	medicinal plants ⓘ ornamental plants ⓘ
flowerCharacteristic	often showy petals or strap‑like tepals ⓘ
flowerType	bisexual flowers ⓘ
fruitType	woody capsule ⓘ
growthForm	shrubs ⓘ small trees ⓘ
hasCharacteristic	deciduous species ⓘ some evergreen species ⓘ
includesGenus	Altingia NERFINISHED ⓘ Chunia NERFINISHED ⓘ Corylopsis NERFINISHED ⓘ Dicoryphe NERFINISHED ⓘ Distylium NERFINISHED ⓘ Eustigma NERFINISHED ⓘ Exbucklandia NERFINISHED ⓘ Fortunearia NERFINISHED ⓘ Fothergilla NERFINISHED ⓘ Hamamelis ⓘ Liquidambar NERFINISHED ⓘ Loropetalum NERFINISHED ⓘ Mytilaria NERFINISHED ⓘ Ostrearia NERFINISHED ⓘ Parrotia NERFINISHED ⓘ Rhodoleia NERFINISHED ⓘ Semiliquidambar ⓘ Sinowilsonia NERFINISHED ⓘ Sycopsis NERFINISHED ⓘ Trichocladus NERFINISHED ⓘ
kingdom	Plantae ⓘ
medicinalUse	witch‑hazel extracts used as astringent ⓘ
namedAfter	genus Hamamelis ⓘ
nativeTo	Central America ⓘ East Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ Mediterranean region NERFINISHED ⓘ North America ⓘ Southeast Asia ⓘ
notableSpecies	Fothergilla major NERFINISHED ⓘ Hamamelis mollis NERFINISHED ⓘ Hamamelis virginiana NERFINISHED ⓘ Parrotia persica NERFINISHED ⓘ
order	Saxifragales NERFINISHED ⓘ
photosyntheticPathway	C3 ⓘ
taxonomicRank	family ⓘ
typeGenus	Hamamelis NERFINISHED ⓘ
woodyOrHerbaceous	woody ⓘ

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: Hamamelidaceae
Description of subject: Hamamelidaceae is a family of flowering plants best known for shrubs and small trees such as witch-hazels, often valued for their ornamental flowers and medicinal uses.

Referenced by (1)

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

Saxifragales → includesFamily → Hamamelidaceae ⓘ