Lindl.
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Lindl. is the standard botanical author abbreviation for John Lindley, a prominent 19th-century English botanist who formally described numerous plant species.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lindl. canonical | 2 |
| Genus species Lindl. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T854536 — 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: Lindl. Context triple: [Fitzroya, scientificNameAuthorship, Lindl.]
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A.
Macleaya
Macleaya is a small genus of tall, herbaceous flowering plants known as plume poppies, cultivated for their ornamental foliage and feathery flower plumes.
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B.
Hunnemannia
Hunnemannia is a small genus of flowering plants in the poppy family, known for its ornamental, bright yellow, poppy-like blooms.
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C.
Girardinia
Girardinia is a small genus of stinging nettle-like flowering plants known for their fibrous stems and occurrence in tropical and subtropical regions.
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D.
Paradichrostachys
Paradichrostachys is a little-known flowering plant genus in the small family Dirachmaceae, native to arid regions of the Horn of Africa.
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E.
Rhinecanthus
Rhinecanthus is a genus of brightly colored triggerfishes found in tropical Indo-Pacific reefs, known for their distinctive patterns and angular body shapes.
- 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: Lindl. Target entity description: Lindl. is the standard botanical author abbreviation for John Lindley, a prominent 19th-century English botanist who formally described numerous plant species.
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A.
Macleaya
Macleaya is a small genus of tall, herbaceous flowering plants known as plume poppies, cultivated for their ornamental foliage and feathery flower plumes.
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B.
Hunnemannia
Hunnemannia is a small genus of flowering plants in the poppy family, known for its ornamental, bright yellow, poppy-like blooms.
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C.
Girardinia
Girardinia is a small genus of stinging nettle-like flowering plants known for their fibrous stems and occurrence in tropical and subtropical regions.
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D.
Paradichrostachys
Paradichrostachys is a little-known flowering plant genus in the small family Dirachmaceae, native to arid regions of the Horn of Africa.
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E.
Rhinecanthus
Rhinecanthus is a genus of brightly colored triggerfishes found in tropical Indo-Pacific reefs, known for their distinctive patterns and angular body shapes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | botanical author abbreviation ⓘ |
| abbreviationOf | John Lindley ⓘ |
| appliesTo | names validly published by John Lindley ⓘ |
| associatedWithCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| authorityType | taxonomic authority ⓘ |
| countryContext | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| denotesRole | author of plant names ⓘ |
| distinguishesFrom | other botanists named Lindley ⓘ |
| domain | plant taxonomy ⓘ |
| fieldOfUse | botany ⓘ |
| governingDiscipline | systematic botany ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviationStyle | conventional author abbreviation ⓘ |
| hasFullStop | yes ⓘ |
| isPersonAbbreviation | true ⓘ |
| language | Latin script ⓘ |
| personName | John Lindley ⓘ |
| personNotableFor |
description of numerous plant species
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work on orchid taxonomy ⓘ |
| personProfession | botanist ⓘ |
| recordedIn | author abbreviation lists for botanists ⓘ |
| refersTo | John Lindley ⓘ |
| standardizedBy | International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants ⓘ |
| usedFor |
formal citation of plant families
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formal citation of plant genera ⓘ formal citation of plant species ⓘ |
| usedIn | botanical nomenclature ⓘ |
| usedInCitationFormat |
Lindl.
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Genus species Lindl.
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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: Lindl. Description of subject: Lindl. is the standard botanical author abbreviation for John Lindley, a prominent 19th-century English botanist who formally described numerous plant species.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Genus species Lindl.