Adenium obesum
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Adenium obesum is a succulent flowering plant known for its swollen, bonsai-like trunk and showy, rose-like blooms, commonly grown as an ornamental in warm and arid regions.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Adenium | 1 |
| Adenium obesum canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12178630 — 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: Adenium obesum Context triple: [Desert rose, commonNameOf, Adenium obesum]
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A.
Cereus aethiops
Cereus aethiops is a South American columnar cactus species, notable for its dark bluish-green stems and spines, that is native to Argentina and surrounding regions.
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B.
Hesperaloe
Hesperaloe is a small genus of succulent, yucca-like flowering plants native to the arid regions of North America, commonly grown as drought-tolerant ornamentals.
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C.
Epiphyllum
Epiphyllum is a genus of tropical, epiphytic cacti known for their flattened, leaf-like stems and large, showy night-blooming flowers.
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D.
Hoya
Hoya is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, historically notable as the site of an engagement during the Seven Years' War.
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E.
Aloe
Aloe is a genus of succulent plants known for their fleshy, water-storing leaves and medicinally used gels, especially from the species Aloe vera.
- 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: Adenium obesum Target entity description: Adenium obesum is a succulent flowering plant known for its swollen, bonsai-like trunk and showy, rose-like blooms, commonly grown as an ornamental in warm and arid regions.
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A.
Cereus aethiops
Cereus aethiops is a South American columnar cactus species, notable for its dark bluish-green stems and spines, that is native to Argentina and surrounding regions.
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B.
Hesperaloe
Hesperaloe is a small genus of succulent, yucca-like flowering plants native to the arid regions of North America, commonly grown as drought-tolerant ornamentals.
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C.
Epiphyllum
Epiphyllum is a genus of tropical, epiphytic cacti known for their flattened, leaf-like stems and large, showy night-blooming flowers.
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D.
Hoya
Hoya is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, historically notable as the site of an engagement during the Seven Years' War.
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E.
Aloe
Aloe is a genus of succulent plants known for their fleshy, water-storing leaves and medicinally used gels, especially from the species Aloe vera.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Adenium