Hastingsia
E822130
Hastingsia is a small genus of flowering plants in the asparagus family, known for its grasslike leaves and dense spikes of white or greenish flowers, native to western North America.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hastingsia canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9799888 — 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: Hastingsia Context triple: [Agavoideae, containsTaxon, Hastingsia]
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A.
Parasponia
Parasponia is a small genus of tropical trees and shrubs notable for being the only non-leguminous plants known to form nitrogen-fixing symbioses with rhizobial bacteria.
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B.
Lulworthia
Lulworthia is a genus of marine fungi known for colonizing submerged wood and other plant debris in ocean environments.
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C.
Eurybia
Eurybia is a primordial Greek goddess associated with the mastery of the sea and maritime forces.
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D.
Anthemiolus
Anthemiolus was a late Western Roman nobleman and son of Emperor Anthemius, known primarily for his failed military involvement against the Visigoths in Gaul.
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E.
Brevoortia
Brevoortia is a genus of small, schooling marine fish commonly known as menhaden, important both ecologically as filter feeders and commercially in fisheries.
- 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: Hastingsia Target entity description: Hastingsia is a small genus of flowering plants in the asparagus family, known for its grasslike leaves and dense spikes of white or greenish flowers, native to western North America.
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A.
Parasponia
Parasponia is a small genus of tropical trees and shrubs notable for being the only non-leguminous plants known to form nitrogen-fixing symbioses with rhizobial bacteria.
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B.
Lulworthia
Lulworthia is a genus of marine fungi known for colonizing submerged wood and other plant debris in ocean environments.
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C.
Eurybia
Eurybia is a primordial Greek goddess associated with the mastery of the sea and maritime forces.
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D.
Anthemiolus
Anthemiolus was a late Western Roman nobleman and son of Emperor Anthemius, known primarily for his failed military involvement against the Visigoths in Gaul.
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E.
Brevoortia
Brevoortia is a genus of small, schooling marine fish commonly known as menhaden, important both ecologically as filter feeders and commercially in fisheries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
plant genus
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| clade |
Magnoliophyta
ⓘ
surface form:
Angiosperms
Monocots NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributionNote | species often have localized and restricted ranges ⓘ |
| family | Asparagaceae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flowerColor |
greenish
ⓘ
white ⓘ |
| growthForm | perennial herb ⓘ |
| habitat |
bogs
ⓘ
open coniferous forests ⓘ seeps ⓘ wet meadows ⓘ |
| hasCommonName |
rush lily
ⓘ
rushlily ⓘ |
| hasFlowerType | dense spikes of flowers ⓘ |
| hasLeafType | grasslike leaves ⓘ |
| hasSpecies |
Hastingsia alba
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hastingsia atropurpurea NERFINISHED ⓘ Hastingsia bracteosa NERFINISHED ⓘ Hastingsia serpentinicola NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Oregon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States NERFINISHED ⓘ northern California NERFINISHED ⓘ western North America ⓘ |
| order | Asparagales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pollination | insect-pollinated ⓘ |
| reproduction | produces seeds in capsules ⓘ |
| subfamily | Agavoideae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Hastingsia Description of subject: Hastingsia is a small genus of flowering plants in the asparagus family, known for its grasslike leaves and dense spikes of white or greenish flowers, native to western North America.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.