Eriocaulaceae
E742880
Eriocaulaceae is a family of flowering plants, commonly known as pipeworts, characterized by grass-like leaves and often found in wet, marshy habitats worldwide.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eriocaulaceae canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8564331 — 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: Eriocaulaceae Context triple: [Poales, contains, Eriocaulaceae]
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A.
Tiliaceae
Tiliaceae is a former family of flowering plants, traditionally including linden and basswood trees, that is now largely subsumed within the mallow family Malvaceae in modern classifications.
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B.
Myelospermataceae
Myelospermataceae is a small family of ascomycete fungi known from the order Xenospadicoidales, comprising saprobic species typically associated with decaying plant material.
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C.
Hydrostachyaceae
Hydrostachyaceae is a small family of highly specialized aquatic flowering plants, often placed in or near the order Lamiales, known for their unique submerged habit and distinctive, densely clustered inflorescences.
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D.
Venturiaceae
Venturiaceae is a family of ascomycete fungi that includes several important plant pathogens responsible for diseases such as apple scab.
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E.
Sonneratiaceae
Sonneratiaceae is a small family of flowering plants within the order Myrtales, best known for mangrove-associated trees such as Sonneratia found in tropical coastal regions.
- 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: Eriocaulaceae Target entity description: Eriocaulaceae is a family of flowering plants, commonly known as pipeworts, characterized by grass-like leaves and often found in wet, marshy habitats worldwide.
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A.
Tiliaceae
Tiliaceae is a former family of flowering plants, traditionally including linden and basswood trees, that is now largely subsumed within the mallow family Malvaceae in modern classifications.
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B.
Myelospermataceae
Myelospermataceae is a small family of ascomycete fungi known from the order Xenospadicoidales, comprising saprobic species typically associated with decaying plant material.
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C.
Hydrostachyaceae
Hydrostachyaceae is a small family of highly specialized aquatic flowering plants, often placed in or near the order Lamiales, known for their unique submerged habit and distinctive, densely clustered inflorescences.
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D.
Venturiaceae
Venturiaceae is a family of ascomycete fungi that includes several important plant pathogens responsible for diseases such as apple scab.
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E.
Sonneratiaceae
Sonneratiaceae is a small family of flowering plants within the order Myrtales, best known for mangrove-associated trees such as Sonneratia found in tropical coastal regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
plant family
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| approximateNumberOfGenera | 10 ⓘ |
| approximateNumberOfSpecies | 1200 ⓘ |
| belongsToClade | commelinid monocots ⓘ |
| centerOfDiversity |
Brazil
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
South America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| circumscribedInYear | 1810 ⓘ |
| clade |
Magnoliophyta
ⓘ
surface form:
Angiosperms
Monocots NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commonName |
pipewort family
ⓘ
pipeworts ⓘ |
| describedBy | Robert Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distribution |
subtropical regions
ⓘ
temperate regions ⓘ tropical regions ⓘ |
| economicUse |
cut flowers
ⓘ
ornamental plants ⓘ |
| flowerType |
bisexual flowers
ⓘ
unisexual flowers ⓘ |
| foundOn | all continents except Antarctica ⓘ |
| growthForm | herbaceous ⓘ |
| habitat |
bogs
ⓘ
marshes ⓘ stream margins ⓘ swamps ⓘ wet sandy soils ⓘ wetlands ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
fibrous roots
ⓘ
grass-like leaves ⓘ often tufted or rosette-forming herbs ⓘ small flowers in dense heads ⓘ wind-pollinated or insect-pollinated flowers ⓘ |
| inflorescenceType |
capitulum
ⓘ
head-like cluster ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| leafArrangement | basal rosettes ⓘ |
| leafShape | linear leaves ⓘ |
| notableGenus |
Eriocaulon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lachnocaulon NERFINISHED ⓘ Leiothrix NERFINISHED ⓘ Paepalanthus NERFINISHED ⓘ Syngonanthus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| order | Poales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| photosyntheticPathway | C3 ⓘ |
| pollination |
insects
ⓘ
wind ⓘ |
| taxonRank | family ⓘ |
| typeGenus | Eriocaulon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Eriocaulaceae Description of subject: Eriocaulaceae is a family of flowering plants, commonly known as pipeworts, characterized by grass-like leaves and often found in wet, marshy habitats worldwide.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.