Ghost orchid
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The ghost orchid is a rare, leafless epiphytic orchid famed for its ethereal white flowers and elusive presence in the swamps of Florida and Cuba.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ghost orchid canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9394588 — 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: Ghost orchid Context triple: [The Orchid Thief, notableOrchidMentioned, Ghost orchid]
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A.
Rafflesia
Rafflesia is a genus of parasitic flowering plants known for producing some of the world’s largest and foul-smelling blooms, often called “corpse flowers.”
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B.
Bottiaea
Bottiaea was an ancient historical region in northern Greece, later incorporated into the kingdom of Macedon.
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C.
pyramidal orchid
The pyramidal orchid is a distinctive wild orchid species known for its dense, pyramid-shaped clusters of pink to purple flowers that commonly grow on chalk and limestone grasslands in Europe.
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D.
Amorphophallus titanum
Amorphophallus titanum, commonly known as the corpse flower, is a Sumatran plant famous for producing one of the world’s largest and foul-smelling inflorescences.
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E.
Rafflesia arnoldii
Rafflesia arnoldii is a rare parasitic flowering plant native to Southeast Asian rainforests, famous for producing the world’s largest individual flower with a strong carrion-like odor.
- 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: Ghost orchid Target entity description: The ghost orchid is a rare, leafless epiphytic orchid famed for its ethereal white flowers and elusive presence in the swamps of Florida and Cuba.
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A.
Rafflesia
Rafflesia is a genus of parasitic flowering plants known for producing some of the world’s largest and foul-smelling blooms, often called “corpse flowers.”
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B.
Bottiaea
Bottiaea was an ancient historical region in northern Greece, later incorporated into the kingdom of Macedon.
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C.
pyramidal orchid
The pyramidal orchid is a distinctive wild orchid species known for its dense, pyramid-shaped clusters of pink to purple flowers that commonly grow on chalk and limestone grasslands in Europe.
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D.
Amorphophallus titanum
Amorphophallus titanum, commonly known as the corpse flower, is a Sumatran plant famous for producing one of the world’s largest and foul-smelling inflorescences.
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E.
Rafflesia arnoldii
Rafflesia arnoldii is a rare parasitic flowering plant native to Southeast Asian rainforests, famous for producing the world’s largest individual flower with a strong carrion-like odor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
epiphyte
ⓘ
leafless orchid ⓘ orchid species ⓘ |
| citedIn | The Orchid Thief NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| class | Liliopsida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commonNameOf | Dendrophylax lindenii ⓘ |
| conservationStatus | endangered ⓘ |
| distribution |
Big Cypress National Preserve
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Everglades NERFINISHED ⓘ Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park NERFINISHED ⓘ South Florida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| family | Orchidaceae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuredIn | film Adaptation ⓘ |
| flowerColor | white ⓘ |
| floweringSeason |
August
ⓘ
July ⓘ June ⓘ summer ⓘ |
| flowerOrientation | pendant ⓘ |
| flowerShape | frog-like ⓘ |
| genus | Dendrophylax NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| growthForm | epiphytic ⓘ |
| habitat |
cypress swamps
ⓘ
swamps ⓘ wetlands ⓘ |
| hasCommonName |
ghost orchid
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
white frog orchid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| leafPresence | leafless ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Bahamas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cuba NERFINISHED ⓘ Florida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| order | Asparagales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| photosynthesisOrgan | roots ⓘ |
| phylum | Tracheophyta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pollinatedBy |
Cocytius antaeus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
giant sphinx moth ⓘ |
| protectedIn | Florida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rarity | rare ⓘ |
| rootFeature | chlorophyllous roots ⓘ |
| rootType | aerial roots ⓘ |
| scent | fragrant at night ⓘ |
| subfamily | Epidendroideae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subtribe | Angraecinae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| threat |
habitat loss
ⓘ
hydrological changes ⓘ poaching ⓘ |
| tribe | Vandeae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| visibility | cryptic ⓘ |
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: Ghost orchid Description of subject: The ghost orchid is a rare, leafless epiphytic orchid famed for its ethereal white flowers and elusive presence in the swamps of Florida and Cuba.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.