Sphaerosepalaceae
E539959
Sphaerosepalaceae is a small family of flowering plants within the order Malvales, comprising a few genera of trees and shrubs native mainly to Madagascar.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sphaerosepalaceae canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5690988 — 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: Sphaerosepalaceae Context triple: [Malvales, contains, Sphaerosepalaceae]
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A.
Circaeasteraceae
Circaeasteraceae is a small family of flowering plants in the order Ranunculales, known for its few herbaceous species with limited geographic distribution in Asia.
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B.
Octoknemaceae
Octoknemaceae is a small family of flowering plants classified within the order Cucurbitales.
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C.
Tetracarpaeaceae
Tetracarpaeaceae is a small family of flowering plants comprising a single genus, Tetracarpaea, known for its shrubby species native to Tasmania.
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D.
Sphalmioideae
Sphalmioideae is a subfamily within the Proteaceae, a family of flowering plants known for its predominantly Southern Hemisphere distribution and diverse woody species.
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E.
Crypteroniaceae
Crypteroniaceae is a small family of flowering trees and shrubs native mainly to tropical Asia, classified within the order Myrtales.
- 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: Sphaerosepalaceae Target entity description: Sphaerosepalaceae is a small family of flowering plants within the order Malvales, comprising a few genera of trees and shrubs native mainly to Madagascar.
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A.
Circaeasteraceae
Circaeasteraceae is a small family of flowering plants in the order Ranunculales, known for its few herbaceous species with limited geographic distribution in Asia.
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B.
Octoknemaceae
Octoknemaceae is a small family of flowering plants classified within the order Cucurbitales.
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C.
Tetracarpaeaceae
Tetracarpaeaceae is a small family of flowering plants comprising a single genus, Tetracarpaea, known for its shrubby species native to Tasmania.
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D.
Sphalmioideae
Sphalmioideae is a subfamily within the Proteaceae, a family of flowering plants known for its predominantly Southern Hemisphere distribution and diverse woody species.
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E.
Crypteroniaceae
Crypteroniaceae is a small family of flowering trees and shrubs native mainly to tropical Asia, classified within the order Myrtales.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
plant family
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| belongsToClade | Malvids ⓘ |
| clade |
Magnoliophyta
ⓘ
surface form:
Angiosperms
Eudicots ⓘ |
| containsFloweringPlants | true ⓘ |
| distribution | mainly Madagascar ⓘ |
| growthForm |
shrubs
ⓘ
trees ⓘ |
| hasMemberGenus |
Dialyceras
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rhopalocarpus NERFINISHED ⓘ Sphaerosepalum ⓘ |
| isA | family of flowering plants ⓘ |
| isMonophyletic | true ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| nativeTo | Madagascar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| order | Malvales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| photosyntheticPathway | C3 ⓘ |
| taxonomicRank | family ⓘ |
| woodyPlants | true ⓘ |
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: Sphaerosepalaceae Description of subject: Sphaerosepalaceae is a small family of flowering plants within the order Malvales, comprising a few genera of trees and shrubs native mainly to Madagascar.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.