Saccharomycetaceae
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Saccharomycetaceae is a family of budding yeasts that includes many important species used in baking, brewing, and biotechnology.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Saccharomycetaceae canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5931396 — 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: Saccharomycetaceae Context triple: [Saccharomyces cerevisiae, family, Saccharomycetaceae]
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A.
Subbaromyces
Subbaromyces is a genus of fungi in the family Ophiostomataceae, comprising yeasts or yeast-like species often associated with plant material or insect vectors.
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B.
Trichosphaeria sacchari
Trichosphaeria sacchari is a species of ascomycete fungus known as a plant pathogen, particularly associated with sugarcane.
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C.
Trichosphaeriales
Trichosphaeriales is an order of ascomycete fungi within the class Sordariomycetes, comprising mostly saprobic species that decompose plant material.
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D.
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a species of yeast widely used in baking, brewing, and scientific research as a model eukaryotic organism.
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E.
Sordariales
Sordariales is an order of filamentous ascomycete fungi known for producing perithecial fruiting bodies and inhabiting diverse terrestrial environments, often as decomposers or plant-associated species.
- 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: Saccharomycetaceae Target entity description: Saccharomycetaceae is a family of budding yeasts that includes many important species used in baking, brewing, and biotechnology.
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A.
Subbaromyces
Subbaromyces is a genus of fungi in the family Ophiostomataceae, comprising yeasts or yeast-like species often associated with plant material or insect vectors.
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B.
Trichosphaeria sacchari
Trichosphaeria sacchari is a species of ascomycete fungus known as a plant pathogen, particularly associated with sugarcane.
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C.
Trichosphaeriales
Trichosphaeriales is an order of ascomycete fungi within the class Sordariomycetes, comprising mostly saprobic species that decompose plant material.
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D.
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a species of yeast widely used in baking, brewing, and scientific research as a model eukaryotic organism.
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E.
Sordariales
Sordariales is an order of filamentous ascomycete fungi known for producing perithecial fruiting bodies and inhabiting diverse terrestrial environments, often as decomposers or plant-associated species.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fungal family
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| cellType | unicellular fungus ⓘ |
| cellWallComponent |
beta-glucan
ⓘ
chitin ⓘ |
| class | Saccharomycetes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commonName | true yeasts ⓘ |
| containsTaxon |
Candida glabrata
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eremothecium gossypii ⓘ Kazachstania exigua NERFINISHED ⓘ Kazachstania humilis NERFINISHED ⓘ Kluyveromyces lactis NERFINISHED ⓘ Kluyveromyces marxianus NERFINISHED ⓘ Lachancea kluyveri NERFINISHED ⓘ Lachancea thermotolerans NERFINISHED ⓘ Nakaseomyces glabratus NERFINISHED ⓘ Saccharomyces bayanus NERFINISHED ⓘ Saccharomyces cerevisiae ⓘ Saccharomyces eubayanus ⓘ Saccharomyces kudriavzevii NERFINISHED ⓘ Saccharomyces paradoxus NERFINISHED ⓘ Saccharomyces pastorianus NERFINISHED ⓘ Saccharomyces uvarum NERFINISHED ⓘ Torulaspora delbrueckii NERFINISHED ⓘ Zygosaccharomyces bailii NERFINISHED ⓘ Zygosaccharomyces rouxii NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| energySource | fermentation of sugars ⓘ |
| genomeCharacteristic | haploid or diploid life cycle ⓘ |
| habitat |
fermenting substrates
ⓘ
plant surfaces ⓘ soil ⓘ sugary environments ⓘ |
| kingdom | Fungi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| metabolism | facultative anaerobe ⓘ |
| notableModelOrganism | Saccharomyces cerevisiae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| order | Saccharomycetales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| phylum | Ascomycota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reproduction |
asexual budding
ⓘ
sexual spore formation ⓘ |
| reproductionType | budding ⓘ |
| sporeType | ascospore ⓘ |
| subphylum | Saccharomycotina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| taxonRank | family ⓘ |
| typeGenus | Saccharomyces ⓘ |
| usedFor |
baking
ⓘ
bioethanol production ⓘ bread leavening ⓘ brewing beer ⓘ food fermentation ⓘ industrial biotechnology ⓘ production of recombinant proteins ⓘ wine fermentation ⓘ |
| usedIn |
genetics research
ⓘ
molecular biology research ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Saccharomycetaceae Description of subject: Saccharomycetaceae is a family of budding yeasts that includes many important species used in baking, brewing, and biotechnology.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.