Sordariomycetes
E23489
Sordariomycetes is a large class of sac fungi (Ascomycota) that includes many plant pathogens, endophytes, and decomposers characterized by flask-shaped fruiting bodies.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sordariomycetes canonical | 81 |
| Sordariaceae | 2 |
| Sordariomycetidae | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T184059 — 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: Sordariomycetes Context triple: [Ophiostoma ulmi, class, Sordariomycetes]
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A.
Ophiostoma
Ophiostoma is a genus of fungi best known for containing species that cause Dutch elm disease in elm trees.
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B.
Ophiostoma ulmi
Ophiostoma ulmi is a pathogenic fungus best known for causing the devastating tree epidemic known as Dutch elm disease.
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C.
Marchantiophyta
Marchantiophyta is a division of non-vascular plants commonly known as liverworts, characterized by simple, often thalloid bodies that typically inhabit moist, shaded environments.
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D.
Anthocerotophyta
Anthocerotophyta is a division of non-vascular plants commonly known as hornworts, characterized by their horn-like sporophytes and simple thalloid gametophytes.
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E.
Xerospermophilus
Xerospermophilus is a genus of ground-dwelling squirrels native to arid and semi-arid regions of North America.
- 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: Sordariomycetes Target entity description: Sordariomycetes is a large class of sac fungi (Ascomycota) that includes many plant pathogens, endophytes, and decomposers characterized by flask-shaped fruiting bodies.
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A.
Ophiostoma
Ophiostoma is a genus of fungi best known for containing species that cause Dutch elm disease in elm trees.
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B.
Ophiostoma ulmi
Ophiostoma ulmi is a pathogenic fungus best known for causing the devastating tree epidemic known as Dutch elm disease.
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C.
Marchantiophyta
Marchantiophyta is a division of non-vascular plants commonly known as liverworts, characterized by simple, often thalloid bodies that typically inhabit moist, shaded environments.
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D.
Anthocerotophyta
Anthocerotophyta is a division of non-vascular plants commonly known as hornworts, characterized by their horn-like sporophytes and simple thalloid gametophytes.
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E.
Xerospermophilus
Xerospermophilus is a genus of ground-dwelling squirrels native to arid and semi-arid regions of North America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
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: Sordariomycetes Description of subject: Sordariomycetes is a large class of sac fungi (Ascomycota) that includes many plant pathogens, endophytes, and decomposers characterized by flask-shaped fruiting bodies.
Referenced by (84)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Sordariaceae