Sugar maple
E61298
The sugar maple is a large, long-lived North American hardwood tree renowned for its brilliant fall foliage and as the primary source of maple syrup.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Acer saccharum | 2 |
| Sugar maple canonical | 2 |
| sugar maple | 1 |
| sugar maple (Acer saccharum) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T490560 — 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: Sugar maple Context triple: [Vermont, hasStateTree, Sugar maple]
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A.
American elm
The American elm is a large, deciduous North American tree species historically prized for its vase-shaped form and use as a prominent shade and street tree.
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B.
Zelkova
Zelkova is a small genus of deciduous trees in the elm family, valued as ornamentals and for bonsai, and native to parts of Europe and Asia.
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C.
Ulmus
Ulmus is a genus of deciduous trees commonly known as elms, widely distributed across the Northern Hemisphere and valued for their distinctive vase-shaped form and use in landscaping and timber.
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D.
Ulmus glabra
Ulmus glabra, commonly known as the wych elm or Scots elm, is a large deciduous tree native to Europe and western Asia, valued for its broad crown, rough leaves, and historical use in timber and landscaping.
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E.
Morus
Morus is a genus of deciduous trees commonly known as mulberries, valued for their sweet, edible fruits and use in silkworm cultivation.
- 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: Sugar maple Target entity description: The sugar maple is a large, long-lived North American hardwood tree renowned for its brilliant fall foliage and as the primary source of maple syrup.
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A.
American elm
The American elm is a large, deciduous North American tree species historically prized for its vase-shaped form and use as a prominent shade and street tree.
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B.
Zelkova
Zelkova is a small genus of deciduous trees in the elm family, valued as ornamentals and for bonsai, and native to parts of Europe and Asia.
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C.
Ulmus
Ulmus is a genus of deciduous trees commonly known as elms, widely distributed across the Northern Hemisphere and valued for their distinctive vase-shaped form and use in landscaping and timber.
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D.
Ulmus glabra
Ulmus glabra, commonly known as the wych elm or Scots elm, is a large deciduous tree native to Europe and western Asia, valued for its broad crown, rough leaves, and historical use in timber and landscaping.
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E.
Morus
Morus is a genus of deciduous trees commonly known as mulberries, valued for their sweet, edible fruits and use in silkworm cultivation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
deciduous tree
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hardwood tree ⓘ tree species ⓘ vascular plant ⓘ |
| binomialName |
Sugar maple
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Acer saccharum
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| climatePreference | cool temperate ⓘ |
| describedBy | Carl Linnaeus ⓘ |
| economicImportance |
important hardwood timber species
ⓘ
major source of maple syrup ⓘ |
| fallLeafColor |
orange
ⓘ
red ⓘ yellow ⓘ |
| family | Sapindaceae ⓘ |
| fruitType | samara ⓘ |
| genus | Acer ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
brilliant fall foliage
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dense wood ⓘ large canopy ⓘ long-lived ⓘ |
| hasCommonName |
hard maple
ⓘ
rock maple ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| leafMargin | lobed ⓘ |
| leafPersistence | deciduous ⓘ |
| leafType | simple leaf ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Appalachian Mountains
ⓘ
Great Lakes region ⓘ North America ⓘ Eastern Canada ⓘ
surface form:
eastern Canada
Northeastern United States ⓘ
surface form:
northeastern United States
|
| order | Sapindales ⓘ |
| photosyntheticPathway | C3 ⓘ |
| primaryPollinationMode | wind pollination ⓘ |
| primarySapUse |
maple candy production
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maple sugar production ⓘ |
| sapSugarContent | high ⓘ |
| shadeTolerance | high ⓘ |
| soilPreference | moist well-drained soils ⓘ |
| symbolOf |
Canada
ⓘ
Canadian identity ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| usedFor |
flooring
ⓘ
furniture ⓘ maple syrup production ⓘ musical instruments ⓘ ornamental planting ⓘ timber ⓘ |
| woodDensity | high ⓘ |
| woodHardness | high ⓘ |
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: Sugar maple Description of subject: The sugar maple is a large, long-lived North American hardwood tree renowned for its brilliant fall foliage and as the primary source of maple syrup.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
sugar maple
this entity surface form:
Acer saccharum
this entity surface form:
sugar maple (Acer saccharum)
this entity surface form:
Acer saccharum