Firmicutes
E271802
Firmicutes is a major phylum of mostly Gram-positive bacteria that includes many medically and environmentally important genera, such as Bacillus and Clostridium.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bacillota | 3 |
| Firmicutes canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2504172 — 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: Firmicutes Context triple: [Bacillus anthracis, phylum, Firmicutes]
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A.
Campylobacterota
Campylobacterota is a phylum of Gram-negative, often spiral-shaped bacteria that includes several important gastrointestinal pathogens affecting humans and animals.
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B.
Euryarchaeota
Euryarchaeota is a major phylum of Archaea that includes diverse microorganisms such as many methanogens, extreme halophiles, and some thermophiles.
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C.
Coliiformes
Coliiformes is an order of small, arboreal African birds known as mousebirds, characterized by soft plumage, long tails, and strong climbing abilities.
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D.
Korarchaeota
Korarchaeota are a deeply branching, poorly understood lineage of Archaea typically found in high-temperature environments and known mainly from environmental DNA rather than cultivated representatives.
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E.
Nitrosopumilus
Nitrosopumilus is a genus of marine ammonia-oxidizing archaea that plays a key role in the global nitrogen cycle, particularly in oceanic environments.
- 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: Firmicutes Target entity description: Firmicutes is a major phylum of mostly Gram-positive bacteria that includes many medically and environmentally important genera, such as Bacillus and Clostridium.
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A.
Campylobacterota
Campylobacterota is a phylum of Gram-negative, often spiral-shaped bacteria that includes several important gastrointestinal pathogens affecting humans and animals.
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B.
Euryarchaeota
Euryarchaeota is a major phylum of Archaea that includes diverse microorganisms such as many methanogens, extreme halophiles, and some thermophiles.
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C.
Coliiformes
Coliiformes is an order of small, arboreal African birds known as mousebirds, characterized by soft plumage, long tails, and strong climbing abilities.
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D.
Korarchaeota
Korarchaeota are a deeply branching, poorly understood lineage of Archaea typically found in high-temperature environments and known mainly from environmental DNA rather than cultivated representatives.
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E.
Nitrosopumilus
Nitrosopumilus is a genus of marine ammonia-oxidizing archaea that plays a key role in the global nitrogen cycle, particularly in oceanic environments.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | bacterial phylum ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
anthrax
ⓘ
antibiotic production ⓘ botulism ⓘ hospital-acquired infections ⓘ human infections ⓘ pneumonia ⓘ probiotic dairy cultures ⓘ strep throat ⓘ tetanus ⓘ |
| contains |
Bacillales
ⓘ
Bacillus ⓘ Clostridiales ⓘ Clostridium ⓘ
surface form:
Clostridioides
Clostridium ⓘ Enterococcus ⓘ Erysipelotrichales ⓘ Lactobacillales ⓘ Lactobacillus ⓘ Listeria ⓘ Mycoplasma ⓘ Mycoplasmatales ⓘ Paenibacillus ⓘ Staphylococcus ⓘ Streptococcus ⓘ Ureaplasma ⓘ Veillonellales ⓘ |
| domain | Bacteria ⓘ |
| gramStain | Gram-positive ⓘ |
| habitat |
animal gut
ⓘ
freshwater ⓘ human gut ⓘ marine environments ⓘ plant surfaces ⓘ soil ⓘ |
| includesOrganismsInvolvedIn |
carbon cycle
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fermentation ⓘ food fermentation ⓘ food spoilage ⓘ nitrogen cycle ⓘ |
| includesOrganismsWith |
aerobic metabolism
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coccus-shaped morphology ⓘ commensal species ⓘ endospore formation ⓘ facultative anaerobic metabolism ⓘ low G+C content DNA ⓘ obligate anaerobic metabolism ⓘ pathogenic species ⓘ probiotic species ⓘ rod-shaped morphology ⓘ |
| taxonRank | phylum ⓘ |
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: Firmicutes Description of subject: Firmicutes is a major phylum of mostly Gram-positive bacteria that includes many medically and environmentally important genera, such as Bacillus and Clostridium.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Bacillota
this entity surface form:
Bacillota