Golgi apparatus
E196713
The Golgi apparatus is a membrane-bound organelle in eukaryotic cells that modifies, sorts, and packages proteins and lipids for secretion or delivery to other cellular destinations.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Golgi apparatus canonical | 3 |
| Golgi | 2 |
| Golgi body | 2 |
| Golgi complex | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1759160 — 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: Golgi apparatus Context triple: [Eukarya, hasOrganelle, Golgi apparatus]
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A.
Scutum
Scutum is a small, faint constellation in the southern sky, known for its rich Milky Way star fields and deep-sky objects.
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B.
Eukarya
Eukarya is the domain of life comprising all organisms with complex eukaryotic cells containing membrane-bound organelles and a true nucleus.
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C.
Togniniales
Togniniales is an order of fungi within the class Sordariomycetes, comprising ascomycetous species often associated with plant material and wood.
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D.
Cordis
Cordis is a medical device company best known for developing and manufacturing cardiovascular and endovascular products such as stents and catheters.
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E.
Qontigo
Qontigo is a financial technology and indexing company known for providing index, analytics, and risk management solutions to global investors.
- 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: Golgi apparatus Target entity description: The Golgi apparatus is a membrane-bound organelle in eukaryotic cells that modifies, sorts, and packages proteins and lipids for secretion or delivery to other cellular destinations.
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A.
Scutum
Scutum is a small, faint constellation in the southern sky, known for its rich Milky Way star fields and deep-sky objects.
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B.
Eukarya
Eukarya is the domain of life comprising all organisms with complex eukaryotic cells containing membrane-bound organelles and a true nucleus.
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C.
Togniniales
Togniniales is an order of fungi within the class Sordariomycetes, comprising ascomycetous species often associated with plant material and wood.
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D.
Cordis
Cordis is a medical device company best known for developing and manufacturing cardiovascular and endovascular products such as stents and catheters.
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E.
Qontigo
Qontigo is a financial technology and indexing company known for providing index, analytics, and risk management solutions to global investors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cellular component
ⓘ
eukaryotic cell structure ⓘ membrane-bound organelle ⓘ organelle ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Golgi apparatus
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surface form:
Golgi
Golgi apparatus ⓘ
surface form:
Golgi body
Golgi apparatus ⓘ
surface form:
Golgi complex
|
| boundedBy | phospholipid bilayer membrane ⓘ |
| composedOf |
cisternae
ⓘ
flattened membrane-bound sacs ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | Camillo Golgi ⓘ |
| exportsCargoTo |
lysosomes
ⓘ
plasma membrane ⓘ secretory vesicles ⓘ |
| exportsCargoVia | transport vesicles ⓘ |
| function |
formation of lysosomes
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formation of secretory vesicles ⓘ glycosylation of proteins ⓘ lipid trafficking ⓘ modification of lipids ⓘ modification of proteins ⓘ packaging of lipids ⓘ packaging of proteins ⓘ processing of glycolipids ⓘ processing of glycoproteins ⓘ protein trafficking ⓘ sorting of lipids ⓘ sorting of proteins ⓘ sulfation of proteins ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Golgi vesicles
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cis-Golgi network ⓘ medial cisternae ⓘ trans-Golgi network ⓘ |
| involvedIn |
cell wall component synthesis in plants
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post-translational modification ⓘ secretory pathway ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
cytoplasm
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eukaryotic cells ⓘ |
| notPresentIn | most prokaryotic cells ⓘ |
| observedBy |
electron microscopy
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light microscopy ⓘ |
| playsRoleIn |
exocytosis
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lysosomal enzyme targeting ⓘ membrane protein targeting ⓘ |
| presentIn |
animal cells
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fungal cells ⓘ plant cells ⓘ protist cells ⓘ |
| receivesCargoFrom | endoplasmic reticulum ⓘ |
| shape | stack of flattened discs ⓘ |
| typicallyLocatedNear |
cell nucleus
ⓘ
endoplasmic reticulum ⓘ |
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: Golgi apparatus Description of subject: The Golgi apparatus is a membrane-bound organelle in eukaryotic cells that modifies, sorts, and packages proteins and lipids for secretion or delivery to other cellular destinations.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Golgi complex
this entity surface form:
Golgi body
this entity surface form:
Golgi
this entity surface form:
Golgi
this entity surface form:
Golgi complex
this entity surface form:
Golgi body