Pesotum
E148409
Pesotum is a genus of fungi in the family Ophiostomataceae, known for species often associated with wood and bark beetles and implicated in plant diseases.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Pesotum canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1151053 — 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: Pesotum Context triple: [Ophiostomataceae, includesGenus, Pesotum]
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A.
Pserimos
Pserimos is a small Greek island in the southeastern Aegean Sea, known for its quiet beaches and traditional village life.
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B.
Paeligni
The Paeligni were an ancient Italic tribe of central Italy, closely associated with the Samnites and known for their role in early Roman history and the Social War.
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C.
Yeola
Yeola is a town in the Nashik district of Maharashtra, India, known historically as the birthplace of the Indian freedom fighter Tatya Tope.
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D.
Krakhuna
Krakhuna is a Georgian white grape variety from the Imereti region, known for producing aromatic, full-bodied wines with pronounced acidity.
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E.
Tauresium
Tauresium was an ancient settlement in the Balkans, traditionally identified as the birthplace of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I.
- 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: Pesotum Target entity description: Pesotum is a genus of fungi in the family Ophiostomataceae, known for species often associated with wood and bark beetles and implicated in plant diseases.
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A.
Pserimos
Pserimos is a small Greek island in the southeastern Aegean Sea, known for its quiet beaches and traditional village life.
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B.
Paeligni
The Paeligni were an ancient Italic tribe of central Italy, closely associated with the Samnites and known for their role in early Roman history and the Social War.
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C.
Yeola
Yeola is a town in the Nashik district of Maharashtra, India, known historically as the birthplace of the Indian freedom fighter Tatya Tope.
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D.
Krakhuna
Krakhuna is a Georgian white grape variety from the Imereti region, known for producing aromatic, full-bodied wines with pronounced acidity.
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E.
Tauresium
Tauresium was an ancient settlement in the Balkans, traditionally identified as the birthplace of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fungal genus
ⓘ
genus ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
bark beetles
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plant diseases ⓘ wood ⓘ |
| class | Sordariomycetes ⓘ |
| dispersalVector | bark beetles ⓘ |
| distribution | primarily temperate regions ⓘ |
| domain |
Eukarya
ⓘ
surface form:
Eukaryota
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| ecologicalRole |
plant pathogen
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wood-inhabiting fungus ⓘ |
| family | Ophiostomataceae ⓘ |
| habitat |
bark of trees
ⓘ
wood of trees ⓘ |
| impact | can contribute to vascular wilts and dieback in trees ⓘ |
| kingdom | Fungi ⓘ |
| knownFor |
association with bark beetle galleries
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involvement in tree diseases ⓘ |
| morphology |
produces conidia (asexual spores)
ⓘ
produces synnematous conidiophores ⓘ |
| order | Ophiostomatales ⓘ |
| phylum | Ascomycota ⓘ |
| reproduction | asexual reproduction by conidia ⓘ |
| reproductiveType | asexual morph of Ophiostoma-like fungi ⓘ |
| taxonomicRelation | anamorph of Ophiostoma species (in many cases) ⓘ |
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: Pesotum Description of subject: Pesotum is a genus of fungi in the family Ophiostomataceae, known for species often associated with wood and bark beetles and implicated in plant diseases.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.