Trypanosoma
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Trypanosoma is a genus of parasitic protozoa best known for causing diseases such as African sleeping sickness and Chagas disease in humans and other animals.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Trypanosoma canonical | 1 |
| Trypanosoma brucei | 1 |
| Trypanosoma cruzi | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8357293 — 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: Trypanosoma Context triple: [Excavata, includesTaxon, Trypanosoma]
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A.
Schistosoma mansoni
Schistosoma mansoni is a parasitic blood fluke that infects humans and causes intestinal schistosomiasis, a significant neglected tropical disease.
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B.
Brugia timori
Brugia timori is a parasitic filarial nematode that infects humans and causes timorian filariasis, a form of lymphatic filariasis found primarily in parts of Indonesia.
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C.
Necator americanus
Necator americanus is a parasitic hookworm species that infects humans, primarily in tropical and subtropical regions, causing iron-deficiency anemia and other health problems.
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D.
Brugia malayi
Brugia malayi is a parasitic roundworm that infects humans and causes lymphatic filariasis, a tropical disease characterized by swelling and damage to the lymphatic system.
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E.
Necator
Necator is a genus of parasitic hookworms that infect the small intestines of humans and other mammals, commonly causing anemia and other health issues.
- 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: Trypanosoma Target entity description: Trypanosoma is a genus of parasitic protozoa best known for causing diseases such as African sleeping sickness and Chagas disease in humans and other animals.
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A.
Schistosoma mansoni
Schistosoma mansoni is a parasitic blood fluke that infects humans and causes intestinal schistosomiasis, a significant neglected tropical disease.
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B.
Brugia timori
Brugia timori is a parasitic filarial nematode that infects humans and causes timorian filariasis, a form of lymphatic filariasis found primarily in parts of Indonesia.
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C.
Necator americanus
Necator americanus is a parasitic hookworm species that infects humans, primarily in tropical and subtropical regions, causing iron-deficiency anemia and other health problems.
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D.
Brugia malayi
Brugia malayi is a parasitic roundworm that infects humans and causes lymphatic filariasis, a tropical disease characterized by swelling and damage to the lymphatic system.
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E.
Necator
Necator is a genus of parasitic hookworms that infect the small intestines of humans and other mammals, commonly causing anemia and other health issues.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
genus
ⓘ
parasitic protozoan ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Neglected tropical diseases NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causesDisease |
African trypanosomiasis
ⓘ
American trypanosomiasis ⓘ Chagas disease ⓘ Nagana in cattle ⓘ Surra in animals ⓘ sleeping sickness ⓘ |
| cellType | unicellular eukaryote ⓘ |
| class | Kinetoplastea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | David Bruce NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| domain |
Eukarya
ⓘ
surface form:
Eukaryota
|
| family | Trypanosomatidae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution |
Africa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Latin America NERFINISHED ⓘ tropical regions ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalForm |
amastigote
ⓘ
epimastigote ⓘ trypomastigote ⓘ |
| hasOrganelle | kinetoplast ⓘ |
| hasSpecies |
Trypanosoma brucei
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Trypanosoma congolense NERFINISHED ⓘ Trypanosoma cruzi NERFINISHED ⓘ Trypanosoma equiperdum NERFINISHED ⓘ Trypanosoma evansi NERFINISHED ⓘ Trypanosoma rangeli NERFINISHED ⓘ Trypanosoma vivax NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hostType |
invertebrate vectors
ⓘ
vertebrate hosts ⓘ |
| kingdom | Protista NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableSpecies |
Trypanosoma brucei gambiense
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense NERFINISHED ⓘ Trypanosoma cruzi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| order | Trypanosomatida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parasitizes |
domestic animals
ⓘ
humans ⓘ mammals ⓘ wild animals ⓘ |
| pathogenicTo |
cattle
ⓘ
horses ⓘ humans ⓘ |
| phylum | Euglenozoa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reproduction |
asexual reproduction
ⓘ
binary fission ⓘ |
| transmittedBy |
Triatomine bugs
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biting flies ⓘ blood-sucking insects ⓘ tsetse flies ⓘ |
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: Trypanosoma Description of subject: Trypanosoma is a genus of parasitic protozoa best known for causing diseases such as African sleeping sickness and Chagas disease in humans and other animals.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Trypanosoma brucei
this entity surface form:
Trypanosoma cruzi