Clausena
E578190
Clausena is a genus of flowering plants in the citrus family known for its aromatic shrubs and trees, some of which are used in traditional medicine and as spices.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clausena canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6242987 — 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: Clausena Context triple: [Rutaceae, includesGenus, Clausena]
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A.
Aloysia
Aloysia is a feminine given name, historically used in European contexts and closely related to the name Louise.
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B.
Cerasus
Cerasus was an ancient Greek city on the Black Sea coast in the region of Pontus, known historically as a colonial settlement and trading port.
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C.
Mespilus
Mespilus is a small genus of deciduous fruit-bearing trees or shrubs in the rose family, best known for the common medlar cultivated for its distinctive, late-ripening fruit.
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D.
Hovenia
Hovenia is a small genus of flowering trees and shrubs, best known for the Japanese raisin tree (Hovenia dulcis), valued for its sweet, edible fruit stalks and use in traditional medicine.
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E.
Euodia
Euodia is a Christian woman mentioned in the New Testament book of Philippians, known for a disagreement with another woman named Syntyche that Paul urges them to resolve.
- 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: Clausena Target entity description: Clausena is a genus of flowering plants in the citrus family known for its aromatic shrubs and trees, some of which are used in traditional medicine and as spices.
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A.
Aloysia
Aloysia is a feminine given name, historically used in European contexts and closely related to the name Louise.
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B.
Cerasus
Cerasus was an ancient Greek city on the Black Sea coast in the region of Pontus, known historically as a colonial settlement and trading port.
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C.
Mespilus
Mespilus is a small genus of deciduous fruit-bearing trees or shrubs in the rose family, best known for the common medlar cultivated for its distinctive, late-ripening fruit.
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D.
Hovenia
Hovenia is a small genus of flowering trees and shrubs, best known for the Japanese raisin tree (Hovenia dulcis), valued for its sweet, edible fruit stalks and use in traditional medicine.
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E.
Euodia
Euodia is a Christian woman mentioned in the New Testament book of Philippians, known for a disagreement with another woman named Syntyche that Paul urges them to resolve.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
plant genus
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| clade |
Magnoliophyta
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surface form:
Angiosperms
Eudicots ⓘ Rosids ⓘ |
| commonName | Clausena ⓘ |
| contains |
Clausena anisata
NERFINISHED
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Clausena anisum-olens NERFINISHED ⓘ Clausena brevistyla ⓘ Clausena dunniana NERFINISHED ⓘ Clausena excavata NERFINISHED ⓘ Clausena harmandiana NERFINISHED ⓘ Clausena heptaphylla NERFINISHED ⓘ Clausena indica NERFINISHED ⓘ Clausena lansium NERFINISHED ⓘ Clausena smyrelliana NERFINISHED ⓘ Clausena suffruticosa NERFINISHED ⓘ Clausena wallichii NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsCompound |
alkaloids
ⓘ
coumarins ⓘ essential oils ⓘ |
| describedIn | botanical taxonomy of Rutaceae ⓘ |
| family | Rutaceae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
aromatic bark
ⓘ
aromatic leaves ⓘ berry-like fruits ⓘ small white or yellowish flowers ⓘ woody stems ⓘ |
| hasUse |
culinary herb
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spice ⓘ timber and fuelwood (some species) ⓘ traditional medicine ⓘ |
| isA |
aromatic plant genus
ⓘ
flowering plant genus ⓘ woody plant genus ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Africa (some species)
ⓘ
South Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ Southeast Asia ⓘ southern China NERFINISHED ⓘ tropical Asia ⓘ |
| order | Sapindales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pollination | insects ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| usedFor |
anti-inflammatory remedies (traditional)
ⓘ
antimicrobial remedies (traditional) ⓘ digestive ailments (traditional) ⓘ |
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: Clausena Description of subject: Clausena is a genus of flowering plants in the citrus family known for its aromatic shrubs and trees, some of which are used in traditional medicine and as spices.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.