Korarchaeota
E43240
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.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Korarchaeota canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T321265 — 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: Korarchaeota Context triple: [Archaea, kingdomsIncluded, Korarchaeota]
-
A.
Euryarchaeota
Euryarchaeota is a major phylum of Archaea that includes diverse microorganisms such as many methanogens, extreme halophiles, and some thermophiles.
-
B.
Crenarchaeota
Crenarchaeota is a major phylum of Archaea that includes many thermophilic and chemolithoautotrophic microorganisms commonly found in extreme environments such as hot springs and deep-sea hydrothermal vents.
-
C.
Thaumarchaeota
Thaumarchaeota are a phylum of Archaea known primarily for their role in ammonia oxidation and global nitrogen cycling in diverse environments.
-
D.
Archaea
Archaea are a domain of single-celled microorganisms distinct from bacteria and eukaryotes, often known for thriving in extreme environments and possessing unique biochemical and genetic features.
-
E.
Monera
Monera is a former biological kingdom that comprised all prokaryotic, single-celled organisms such as bacteria and archaea, distinguished by their lack of a true nucleus and membrane-bound organelles.
- 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: Korarchaeota Target entity description: 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.
-
A.
Euryarchaeota
Euryarchaeota is a major phylum of Archaea that includes diverse microorganisms such as many methanogens, extreme halophiles, and some thermophiles.
-
B.
Crenarchaeota
Crenarchaeota is a major phylum of Archaea that includes many thermophilic and chemolithoautotrophic microorganisms commonly found in extreme environments such as hot springs and deep-sea hydrothermal vents.
-
C.
Thaumarchaeota
Thaumarchaeota are a phylum of Archaea known primarily for their role in ammonia oxidation and global nitrogen cycling in diverse environments.
-
D.
Archaea
Archaea are a domain of single-celled microorganisms distinct from bacteria and eukaryotes, often known for thriving in extreme environments and possessing unique biochemical and genetic features.
-
E.
Monera
Monera is a former biological kingdom that comprised all prokaryotic, single-celled organisms such as bacteria and archaea, distinguished by their lack of a true nucleus and membrane-bound organelles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
archaeal phylum
ⓘ
microbial lineage ⓘ |
| carbonSource | likely heterotrophic or mixotrophic ⓘ |
| cellType | prokaryote ⓘ |
| cellularity | unicellular ⓘ |
| cellWall | archaeal cell envelope ⓘ |
| cultivationStatus |
few or no stable laboratory cultures
ⓘ
poorly cultivated ⓘ |
| dataAvailability |
limited cultured representatives
ⓘ
primarily sequence-based records ⓘ |
| discoveryMethod |
16S rRNA gene surveys
ⓘ
environmental DNA sequencing ⓘ |
| distribution | various geothermal regions worldwide ⓘ |
| domain | Archaea ⓘ |
| energySource | chemotrophic ⓘ |
| environment |
high-temperature environments
ⓘ
hot springs ⓘ hydrothermal systems ⓘ marine hydrothermal vents ⓘ |
| firstDescriptionPeriod | 1990s ⓘ |
| geneticDiversity | high sequence divergence from other Archaea ⓘ |
| genomeSource |
metagenome-assembled genomes
ⓘ
single-cell amplified genomes ⓘ |
| habitat | geothermal environments ⓘ |
| importance | key to understanding early archaeal evolution ⓘ |
| isA |
deeply branching archaeal lineage
ⓘ
thermophilic archaeal group ⓘ |
| kingdom | Archaea ⓘ |
| knownFrom | environmental DNA ⓘ |
| lipidType | ether-linked membrane lipids ⓘ |
| metabolism |
anaerobic
ⓘ
thermophilic ⓘ |
| nucleicAcidType | DNA ⓘ |
| oxygenRequirement | often anaerobic or microaerophilic ⓘ |
| phylogeneticMarker | 16S rRNA gene sequences ⓘ |
| phylogeneticPosition | deep-branching within Archaea ⓘ |
| reproduction | asexual reproduction ⓘ |
| researchStatus |
known mainly from molecular data
ⓘ
poorly understood ⓘ |
| rRNAType | 16S rRNA ⓘ |
| studyField |
evolutionary microbiology
ⓘ
microbial ecology ⓘ |
| taxonomicRank | phylum ⓘ |
| temperaturePreference | high temperature ⓘ |
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: Korarchaeota Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.