Idiospermaceae
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Idiospermaceae is a small family of flowering plants within the order Laurales, known for its single genus Idiospermum, a rare rainforest tree native to northeastern Australia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Idiospermaceae canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10913581 — 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: Idiospermaceae Context triple: [Laurales, containsFamily, Idiospermaceae]
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A.
Menispermaceae
Menispermaceae is a family of mostly tropical climbing plants known for their often toxic alkaloids and distinctive curved or crescent-shaped seeds.
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B.
Datiscaceae
Datiscaceae is a small family of flowering plants known for its herbaceous species, such as Datisca, that often exhibit unusual reproductive traits like dioecy and are native to regions in Eurasia and North America.
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C.
Lardizabalaceae
Lardizabalaceae is a small family of mostly woody, often climbing flowering plants known for their ornamental foliage and sometimes edible fruits, native primarily to East Asia and the Andes.
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D.
Valsaceae
Valsaceae is a family of fungi within the order Diaporthales, comprising mainly plant-pathogenic species that often cause cankers and other diseases in woody plants.
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E.
Ulmaceae
Ulmaceae is a family of flowering trees and shrubs best known for including the elms, which are widespread in temperate 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: Idiospermaceae Target entity description: Idiospermaceae is a small family of flowering plants within the order Laurales, known for its single genus Idiospermum, a rare rainforest tree native to northeastern Australia.
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A.
Menispermaceae
Menispermaceae is a family of mostly tropical climbing plants known for their often toxic alkaloids and distinctive curved or crescent-shaped seeds.
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B.
Datiscaceae
Datiscaceae is a small family of flowering plants known for its herbaceous species, such as Datisca, that often exhibit unusual reproductive traits like dioecy and are native to regions in Eurasia and North America.
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C.
Lardizabalaceae
Lardizabalaceae is a small family of mostly woody, often climbing flowering plants known for their ornamental foliage and sometimes edible fruits, native primarily to East Asia and the Andes.
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D.
Valsaceae
Valsaceae is a family of fungi within the order Diaporthales, comprising mainly plant-pathogenic species that often cause cankers and other diseases in woody plants.
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E.
Ulmaceae
Ulmaceae is a family of flowering trees and shrubs best known for including the elms, which are widespread in temperate regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
plant family
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| biome | tropical rainforest ⓘ |
| clade |
Magnoliophyta
ⓘ
surface form:
Angiosperms
Magnoliids NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climatePreference | humid tropical ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Calycanthaceae
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lauraceae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conservationConcern | habitat restricted ⓘ |
| containsTaxon | Idiospermum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distribution | restricted distribution ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole | rainforest canopy component ⓘ |
| endemicTo | Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstDescribedAsFamilyBy | L. A. S. Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstDescriptionYear | 1970 ⓘ |
| flowerType | flowering plants ⓘ |
| genusCount | 1 ⓘ |
| geographicRealm | Australasian realm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| growthForm | trees ⓘ |
| habitat | rainforest ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
monogeneric
ⓘ
rare ⓘ small family ⓘ |
| isMonotypicFamily | true ⓘ |
| kingdom | Plantae ⓘ |
| leafType | evergreen ⓘ |
| lifeCycle | perennial ⓘ |
| majorGenus | Idiospermum australiense NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | Laurales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Idiospermum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
Queensland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
northeastern Australia ⓘ |
| order | Laurales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| photosyntheticPathway | C3 ⓘ |
| pollenType | monosulcate pollen ⓘ |
| recognizedBy |
APG II system
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
APG III system NERFINISHED ⓘ APG IV system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Wet Tropics of Queensland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reproduction | sexual reproduction via flowers ⓘ |
| seedDispersal | gravity dispersal ⓘ |
| subdivisionRanks | genera ⓘ |
| taxonRank | family ⓘ |
| woodType | hardwood ⓘ |
| woRMS-ID | 0 ⓘ |
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: Idiospermaceae Description of subject: Idiospermaceae is a small family of flowering plants within the order Laurales, known for its single genus Idiospermum, a rare rainforest tree native to northeastern Australia.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.