rabies virus
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Rabies virus is a deadly neurotropic virus that causes acute encephalitis in mammals, including humans, and is almost invariably fatal once clinical symptoms appear.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| rabies virus canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17262245 — 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: rabies virus Context triple: [Mononegavirales, notableHumanPathogensInclude, rabies 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.
Sindbis virus
Sindbis virus is an arthropod-borne alphavirus that primarily infects birds and humans, causing febrile illness and rash, and is transmitted by mosquitoes such as those of the Culex genus.
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C.
Nipah virus
Nipah virus is a highly lethal zoonotic paramyxovirus that causes severe respiratory illness and encephalitis in humans, with fruit bats as its natural reservoir.
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D.
Japanese encephalitis virus
Japanese encephalitis virus is a mosquito-borne flavivirus that causes severe inflammation of the brain in humans and is a leading cause of viral encephalitis in Asia.
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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: rabies virus Target entity description: Rabies virus is a deadly neurotropic virus that causes acute encephalitis in mammals, including humans, and is almost invariably fatal once clinical symptoms appear.
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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.
Sindbis virus
Sindbis virus is an arthropod-borne alphavirus that primarily infects birds and humans, causing febrile illness and rash, and is transmitted by mosquitoes such as those of the Culex genus.
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C.
Nipah virus
Nipah virus is a highly lethal zoonotic paramyxovirus that causes severe respiratory illness and encephalitis in humans, with fruit bats as its natural reservoir.
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D.
Japanese encephalitis virus
Japanese encephalitis virus is a mosquito-borne flavivirus that causes severe inflammation of the brain in humans and is a leading cause of viral encephalitis in Asia.
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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.