Rafflesia
E513946
Rafflesia is a genus of parasitic flowering plants known for producing some of the world’s largest and foul-smelling blooms, often called “corpse flowers.”
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rafflesia canonical | 5 |
| Rafflesia (genus name honoring Raffles) | 1 |
| rafflesia | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5350535 — 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: Rafflesia Context triple: [Rafflesia arnoldii, genus, Rafflesia]
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A.
Rafflesia arnoldii
Rafflesia arnoldii is a rare parasitic flowering plant native to Southeast Asian rainforests, famous for producing the world’s largest individual flower with a strong carrion-like odor.
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B.
Rafflesia keithii
Rafflesia keithii is a rare parasitic flowering plant native to Borneo, notable for producing one of the world’s largest and foul-smelling blooms.
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C.
Rafflesia patma
Rafflesia patma is a rare parasitic flowering plant native to Indonesia, known for its large, foul-smelling blossoms that lack leaves, stems, and roots.
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D.
Amorphophallus titanum
Amorphophallus titanum, commonly known as the corpse flower, is a Sumatran plant famous for producing one of the world’s largest and foul-smelling inflorescences.
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E.
Bottiaea
Bottiaea was an ancient historical region in northern Greece, later incorporated into the kingdom of Macedon.
- 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: Rafflesia Target entity description: Rafflesia is a genus of parasitic flowering plants known for producing some of the world’s largest and foul-smelling blooms, often called “corpse flowers.”
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A.
Rafflesia arnoldii
Rafflesia arnoldii is a rare parasitic flowering plant native to Southeast Asian rainforests, famous for producing the world’s largest individual flower with a strong carrion-like odor.
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B.
Rafflesia keithii
Rafflesia keithii is a rare parasitic flowering plant native to Borneo, notable for producing one of the world’s largest and foul-smelling blooms.
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C.
Rafflesia patma
Rafflesia patma is a rare parasitic flowering plant native to Indonesia, known for its large, foul-smelling blossoms that lack leaves, stems, and roots.
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D.
Amorphophallus titanum
Amorphophallus titanum, commonly known as the corpse flower, is a Sumatran plant famous for producing one of the world’s largest and foul-smelling inflorescences.
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E.
Bottiaea
Bottiaea was an ancient historical region in northern Greece, later incorporated into the kingdom of Macedon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
genus
ⓘ
parasitic plant genus ⓘ plant species ⓘ |
| clade |
Magnoliophyta
ⓘ
surface form:
Angiosperms
Eudicots ⓘ |
| commonName | corpse flower ⓘ |
| conservationStatus | threatened ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | Louis Auguste Deschamps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| family | Rafflesiaceae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flowerColor | reddish-brown ⓘ |
| flowerDiameterMax | about 1 meter ⓘ |
| flowerPattern | pale warts or spots ⓘ |
| flowerType | unisexual ⓘ |
| flowerWeightMax | about 10 kilograms ⓘ |
| formallyDescribedBy | Robert Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| growthForm | endoparasite ⓘ |
| habitat | tropical rainforest ⓘ |
| hasLargestSingleFlower | true ⓘ |
| hasLeaves | false ⓘ |
| hasRoots | false ⓘ |
| hasStems | false ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| largestSpecies | Rafflesia arnoldii NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lifeStageVisibleExternally | flower ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Stamford Raffles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Borneo
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Indonesia NERFINISHED ⓘ Malaysia NERFINISHED ⓘ Philippines NERFINISHED ⓘ Southeast Asia ⓘ Sumatra NERFINISHED ⓘ Thailand NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| odor | rotting flesh ⓘ |
| order | Malpighiales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parasitizes |
Tetrastigma
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vitaceae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| photosynthetic | false ⓘ |
| pollinatedBy | flies ⓘ |
| pollinationSyndrome | sapromyiophily ⓘ |
| reproduction | seeds ⓘ |
| reproductiveChallenge | requires proximity of male and female flowers ⓘ |
| reproductiveStructure | flower ⓘ |
| seedDispersal | mammals ⓘ |
| smellFunction | attract carrion flies ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| threat |
deforestation
ⓘ
habitat loss ⓘ |
| yearDescribed | 1821 ⓘ |
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: Rafflesia Description of subject: Rafflesia is a genus of parasitic flowering plants known for producing some of the world’s largest and foul-smelling blooms, often called “corpse flowers.”
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Rafflesia (genus name honoring Raffles)
this entity surface form:
rafflesia