yellow fever virus
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Yellow fever virus is a mosquito-borne flavivirus that causes acute viral hemorrhagic disease in humans, characterized by fever, jaundice, and potentially fatal organ failure.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| yellow fever virus canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17261995 — 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: yellow fever virus Context triple: [Aedes aegypti, vectorFor, yellow fever virus]
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A.
West Nile virus
West Nile virus is a mosquito-borne flavivirus that can cause febrile illness, encephalitis, and meningitis in humans and other animals.
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B.
Rift Valley fever virus
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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C.
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.
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D.
St. Louis encephalitis virus
St. Louis encephalitis virus is a mosquito-borne flavivirus that can cause inflammation of the brain and neurological disease in humans, primarily in the Americas.
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E.
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.
- 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: yellow fever virus Target entity description: Yellow fever virus is a mosquito-borne flavivirus that causes acute viral hemorrhagic disease in humans, characterized by fever, jaundice, and potentially fatal organ failure.
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A.
West Nile virus
West Nile virus is a mosquito-borne flavivirus that can cause febrile illness, encephalitis, and meningitis in humans and other animals.
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B.
Rift Valley fever virus
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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C.
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.
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D.
St. Louis encephalitis virus
St. Louis encephalitis virus is a mosquito-borne flavivirus that can cause inflammation of the brain and neurological disease in humans, primarily in the Americas.
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E.
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.
- 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:
Aedes aegypti