Neurospora
E580450
Neurospora is a genus of filamentous ascomycete fungi widely used as a model organism in genetics and molecular biology, especially for studying gene regulation and biochemical pathways.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Neurospora canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6216852 — 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: Neurospora Context triple: [Sordariales, includesGenus, Neurospora]
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A.
Neurospora crassa
Neurospora crassa is a filamentous red bread mold fungus widely used as a model organism in genetics and molecular biology.
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B.
Sordaria
Sordaria is a genus of filamentous ascomycete fungi commonly used as a model organism in genetics and developmental biology due to its easily observable spore formation.
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C.
Trichosphaeria sacchari
Trichosphaeria sacchari is a species of ascomycete fungus known as a plant pathogen, particularly associated with sugarcane.
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D.
Penicillium chrysogenum
Penicillium chrysogenum is a species of filamentous fungus best known as the original industrial source of the antibiotic penicillin.
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E.
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a species of yeast widely used in baking, brewing, and scientific research as a model eukaryotic organism.
- 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: Neurospora Target entity description: Neurospora is a genus of filamentous ascomycete fungi widely used as a model organism in genetics and molecular biology, especially for studying gene regulation and biochemical pathways.
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A.
Neurospora crassa
Neurospora crassa is a filamentous red bread mold fungus widely used as a model organism in genetics and molecular biology.
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B.
Sordaria
Sordaria is a genus of filamentous ascomycete fungi commonly used as a model organism in genetics and developmental biology due to its easily observable spore formation.
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C.
Trichosphaeria sacchari
Trichosphaeria sacchari is a species of ascomycete fungus known as a plant pathogen, particularly associated with sugarcane.
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D.
Penicillium chrysogenum
Penicillium chrysogenum is a species of filamentous fungus best known as the original industrial source of the antibiotic penicillin.
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E.
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a species of yeast widely used in baking, brewing, and scientific research as a model eukaryotic organism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ascomycete genus
ⓘ
fungus genus ⓘ genus ⓘ |
| belongsToGroup | ascomycete fungi ⓘ |
| cellType | eukaryotic ⓘ |
| class | Sordariomycetes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| division | Ascomycota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| family | Sordariaceae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genomeSequenced | true ⓘ |
| genomeType | haploid dominant life cycle ⓘ |
| growthForm | mycelial ⓘ |
| habitat |
burned vegetation
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decaying plant material ⓘ soil ⓘ |
| hasTypeSpecies | Neurospora crassa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includesSpecies |
Neurospora crassa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Neurospora discreta NERFINISHED ⓘ Neurospora intermedia NERFINISHED ⓘ Neurospora sitophila NERFINISHED ⓘ Neurospora tetrasperma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| kingdom | Fungi ⓘ |
| modelOrganismFor |
biochemical pathways
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circadian rhythms ⓘ developmental biology ⓘ gene regulation ⓘ genetics ⓘ molecular biology ⓘ photobiology ⓘ |
| morphology | filamentous fungus ⓘ |
| notableFor |
ease of genetic manipulation
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rapid growth ⓘ simple nutritional requirements ⓘ |
| order | Sordariales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| phylum | Ascomycota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reproduction |
asexual reproduction via conidia
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sexual reproduction via ascospores ⓘ |
| sporeType |
ascospore
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conidium ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| usedIn |
RNA interference studies
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circadian clock research ⓘ classical genetics ⓘ epigenetics research ⓘ forward genetics ⓘ fungal biology education ⓘ light signaling research ⓘ metabolic pathway analysis ⓘ mutagenesis studies ⓘ nutritional genetics ⓘ reverse genetics ⓘ |
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: Neurospora Description of subject: Neurospora is a genus of filamentous ascomycete fungi widely used as a model organism in genetics and molecular biology, especially for studying gene regulation and biochemical pathways.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.