Rift Valley fever virus
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Rift Valley fever virus is a mosquito-borne phlebovirus that primarily affects livestock and can cause severe disease, including hemorrhagic fever and encephalitis, in humans.
All labels observed (1)
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| Rift Valley fever virus canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16441785 — 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: Rift Valley fever virus Context triple: [Culex, isVectorOf, Rift Valley fever virus]
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A.
vesicular stomatitis virus
Vesicular stomatitis virus is an enveloped, negative-sense RNA virus of the Rhabdoviridae family that primarily infects livestock and is widely used as a viral vector in vaccine development and virology research.
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B.
Marburg virus
Marburg virus is a highly lethal filovirus that causes severe hemorrhagic fever in humans and nonhuman primates, similar to Ebola.
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C.
Reston ebolavirus
Reston ebolavirus is a species of ebolavirus that primarily infects nonhuman primates and pigs and is notable for being the only known ebolavirus that has caused asymptomatic infections in humans.
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D.
Ebolavirus
Ebolavirus is a genus of filamentous, enveloped RNA viruses in the Filoviridae family that cause severe and often fatal hemorrhagic fever in humans and other primates.
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E.
Zika virus
Zika virus is a mosquito-borne flavivirus that can cause mild illness in adults but is strongly associated with severe birth defects such as microcephaly when contracted during pregnancy.
- 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: Rift Valley fever virus Target entity description: Rift Valley fever virus is a mosquito-borne phlebovirus that primarily affects livestock and can cause severe disease, including hemorrhagic fever and encephalitis, in humans.
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A.
vesicular stomatitis virus
Vesicular stomatitis virus is an enveloped, negative-sense RNA virus of the Rhabdoviridae family that primarily infects livestock and is widely used as a viral vector in vaccine development and virology research.
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B.
Marburg virus
Marburg virus is a highly lethal filovirus that causes severe hemorrhagic fever in humans and nonhuman primates, similar to Ebola.
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C.
Reston ebolavirus
Reston ebolavirus is a species of ebolavirus that primarily infects nonhuman primates and pigs and is notable for being the only known ebolavirus that has caused asymptomatic infections in humans.
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D.
Ebolavirus
Ebolavirus is a genus of filamentous, enveloped RNA viruses in the Filoviridae family that cause severe and often fatal hemorrhagic fever in humans and other primates.
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E.
Zika virus
Zika virus is a mosquito-borne flavivirus that can cause mild illness in adults but is strongly associated with severe birth defects such as microcephaly when contracted during pregnancy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Culex