Nepenthes rajah
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Nepenthes rajah is a giant carnivorous pitcher plant from Borneo, renowned for having some of the largest known pitfall traps in the plant kingdom.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nepenthes rajah canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T435154 — 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: Nepenthes rajah Context triple: [Caryophyllales, exampleSpecies, Nepenthes rajah]
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A.
Dionaea muscipula
Dionaea muscipula, commonly known as the Venus flytrap, is a small carnivorous plant native to subtropical wetlands of the United States that captures and digests insects with its specialized jaw-like leaf traps.
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B.
Drosera
Drosera is a genus of carnivorous plants, commonly known as sundews, that capture and digest insects using sticky, glandular leaves.
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C.
Genlisea
Genlisea is a genus of carnivorous plants, commonly called corkscrew plants, that capture and digest small organisms using specialized underground leaf traps.
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D.
Macleaya
Macleaya is a small genus of tall, herbaceous flowering plants known as plume poppies, cultivated for their ornamental foliage and feathery flower plumes.
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E.
Utricularia
Utricularia is a genus of carnivorous aquatic and terrestrial plants, commonly called bladderworts, that capture small prey using tiny bladder-like traps.
- 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: Nepenthes rajah Target entity description: Nepenthes rajah is a giant carnivorous pitcher plant from Borneo, renowned for having some of the largest known pitfall traps in the plant kingdom.
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A.
Dionaea muscipula
Dionaea muscipula, commonly known as the Venus flytrap, is a small carnivorous plant native to subtropical wetlands of the United States that captures and digests insects with its specialized jaw-like leaf traps.
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B.
Drosera
Drosera is a genus of carnivorous plants, commonly known as sundews, that capture and digest insects using sticky, glandular leaves.
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C.
Genlisea
Genlisea is a genus of carnivorous plants, commonly called corkscrew plants, that capture and digest small organisms using specialized underground leaf traps.
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D.
Macleaya
Macleaya is a small genus of tall, herbaceous flowering plants known as plume poppies, cultivated for their ornamental foliage and feathery flower plumes.
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E.
Utricularia
Utricularia is a genus of carnivorous aquatic and terrestrial plants, commonly called bladderworts, that capture small prey using tiny bladder-like traps.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
carnivorous plant
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pitcher plant ⓘ species of flowering plant ⓘ |
| altitudeRange | 1500–2650 m ⓘ |
| conservationStatus | Endangered ⓘ |
| conservationStatusSystem |
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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surface form:
IUCN Red List
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| describedBy | Joseph Dalton Hooker ⓘ |
| diet |
fallen leaves and detritus
ⓘ
insects ⓘ other arthropods ⓘ small vertebrates ⓘ |
| endemicTo | Borneo ⓘ |
| family | Nepenthaceae ⓘ |
| feedingStrategy | pitfall trap ⓘ |
| flowerType | unisexual flowers ⓘ |
| foundInCountry | Malaysia ⓘ |
| foundInRegion | Sabah ⓘ |
| genus | Nepenthes ⓘ |
| growsOn | serpentine substrates ⓘ |
| growthForm |
climbing plant
ⓘ
terrestrial plant ⓘ |
| habitat |
montane heath forest
ⓘ
ultramafic soils ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| leafArrangement |
alternate on climbing stems
ⓘ
rosette in young plants ⓘ |
| leafType | evergreen ⓘ |
| listedIn | CITES Appendix I ⓘ |
| mutualismWith | tree shrews ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Borneo
ⓘ
Mount Kinabalu ⓘ Mount Tambuyukon ⓘ |
| notableFor | having some of the largest pitcher traps among plants ⓘ |
| nutrientAcquisition |
absorption from pitcher fluid
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carnivory ⓘ |
| order | Caryophyllales ⓘ |
| photosynthesisType | C3 ⓘ |
| pitcherCapacity | up to several liters of fluid ⓘ |
| pollination | insects ⓘ |
| protectedIn | Kinabalu Park ⓘ |
| reproduction | sexual reproduction via flowers ⓘ |
| sexType | dioecious ⓘ |
| soilPreference | nutrient-poor soils ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| threat |
habitat loss
ⓘ
overcollection ⓘ |
| trapType | passive pitfall trap ⓘ |
| yearDescribed | 1859 ⓘ |
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: Nepenthes rajah Description of subject: Nepenthes rajah is a giant carnivorous pitcher plant from Borneo, renowned for having some of the largest known pitfall traps in the plant kingdom.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.