Bacillales
E276704
Bacillales is an order of Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacteria that includes medically and environmentally important genera such as Bacillus and Staphylococcus.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bacillales canonical | 3 |
| Bacilli | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2504170 — 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: Bacillales Context triple: [Bacillus anthracis, order, Bacillales]
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A.
Bacillaceae
Bacillaceae is a family of Gram-positive, rod-shaped, endospore-forming bacteria that includes medically and environmentally significant genera such as Bacillus.
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B.
Bacillus
Bacillus is a genus of rod-shaped, endospore-forming bacteria that includes both harmless environmental species and notable pathogens such as Bacillus anthracis.
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C.
Corynebacteriales
Corynebacteriales is an order of Gram-positive bacteria that includes medically important genera such as Mycobacterium and Corynebacterium, some of which cause serious human diseases.
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D.
Actinobacteria
Actinobacteria is a major phylum of Gram-positive bacteria with high G+C content that includes many soil-dwelling species as well as important pathogens and antibiotic producers.
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E.
Firmicutes
Firmicutes is a major phylum of mostly Gram-positive bacteria that includes many medically and environmentally important genera, such as Bacillus and Clostridium.
- 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: Bacillales Target entity description: Bacillales is an order of Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacteria that includes medically and environmentally important genera such as Bacillus and Staphylococcus.
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A.
Bacillaceae
Bacillaceae is a family of Gram-positive, rod-shaped, endospore-forming bacteria that includes medically and environmentally significant genera such as Bacillus.
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B.
Bacillus
Bacillus is a genus of rod-shaped, endospore-forming bacteria that includes both harmless environmental species and notable pathogens such as Bacillus anthracis.
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C.
Corynebacteriales
Corynebacteriales is an order of Gram-positive bacteria that includes medically important genera such as Mycobacterium and Corynebacterium, some of which cause serious human diseases.
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D.
Actinobacteria
Actinobacteria is a major phylum of Gram-positive bacteria with high G+C content that includes many soil-dwelling species as well as important pathogens and antibiotic producers.
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E.
Firmicutes
Firmicutes is a major phylum of mostly Gram-positive bacteria that includes many medically and environmentally important genera, such as Bacillus and Clostridium.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | bacterial order ⓘ |
| beneficialMembers |
Bacillus subtilis
ⓘ
Bacillus ⓘ
surface form:
Bacillus thuringiensis
|
| cellShape | rod-shaped ⓘ |
| cellWallType | thick peptidoglycan layer ⓘ |
| class |
Bacillales
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Bacilli
|
| domain | Bacteria ⓘ |
| environmentalRole |
decomposition of organic matter
ⓘ
nutrient cycling ⓘ |
| gramStain | Gram-positive ⓘ |
| habitat |
animal-associated environments
ⓘ
plant-associated environments ⓘ soil ⓘ water ⓘ |
| includesGenus |
Aerococcus
ⓘ
Alicyclobacillus ⓘ Anoxybacillus ⓘ Bacillus ⓘ Brochothrix ⓘ Enterococcus ⓘ Exiguobacterium ⓘ Gemella ⓘ Geobacillus ⓘ Halobacillus ⓘ Jeotgalibacillus ⓘ Kurthia ⓘ Listeria ⓘ Lysinibacillus ⓘ Macrococcus ⓘ Oceanobacillus ⓘ Paenibacillus ⓘ Planococcus ⓘ Salimicrobium ⓘ Sporosarcina ⓘ Staphylococcus ⓘ Terribacillus ⓘ Virgibacillus ⓘ |
| industrialRelevance |
source of industrial enzymes
ⓘ
used in biotechnology ⓘ |
| medicalRelevance |
includes foodborne pathogens
ⓘ
includes human pathogens ⓘ |
| motility | many species are motile with flagella ⓘ |
| oxygenRequirement |
aerobic
ⓘ
facultatively anaerobic ⓘ |
| pathogenicMembers |
Bacillus anthracis
ⓘ
Listeria ⓘ
surface form:
Listeria monocytogenes
Staphylococcus ⓘ
surface form:
Staphylococcus aureus
|
| phylum |
Firmicutes
ⓘ
surface form:
Bacillota
|
| reproduction | binary fission ⓘ |
| sporeFormation | many genera form endospores ⓘ |
| taxonRank | order ⓘ |
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: Bacillales Description of subject: Bacillales is an order of Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacteria that includes medically and environmentally important genera such as Bacillus and Staphylococcus.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Bacilli