Discicristata
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Discicristata is a major clade of unicellular eukaryotes within the supergroup Excavata, characterized by distinctive disc-shaped mitochondrial cristae.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Discicristata canonical | 1 |
| Discicristata clade | 1 |
| Discicristata group | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8357313 — 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: Discicristata Context triple: [Excavata, includesTaxon, Discicristata]
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A.
Staurozoa
Staurozoa is a class of stalked jellyfish-like cnidarians characterized by their sessile, upside-down medusa form typically attached to substrates in cold, shallow marine waters.
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B.
Pycnoidei
Pycnoidei is a suborder of marine ray-finned fishes within the order Scorpaeniformes, comprising various bottom-dwelling, often spiny species.
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C.
Kinorhyncha
Kinorhyncha are a phylum of minute, segmented, marine invertebrates known as mud dragons, characterized by a spiny head and burrowing lifestyle in marine sediments.
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D.
Placozoa
Placozoa is a phylum of simple, flat, millimeter-sized marine animals with only a few distinct cell types and no true tissues or organs, considered among the most basal and primitive of all multicellular animals.
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E.
Anaspida
Anaspida is an extinct group of jawless, armored fishes known from the Silurian and Devonian periods, characterized by streamlined bodies and bony head shields.
- 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: Discicristata Target entity description: Discicristata is a major clade of unicellular eukaryotes within the supergroup Excavata, characterized by distinctive disc-shaped mitochondrial cristae.
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A.
Staurozoa
Staurozoa is a class of stalked jellyfish-like cnidarians characterized by their sessile, upside-down medusa form typically attached to substrates in cold, shallow marine waters.
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B.
Pycnoidei
Pycnoidei is a suborder of marine ray-finned fishes within the order Scorpaeniformes, comprising various bottom-dwelling, often spiny species.
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C.
Kinorhyncha
Kinorhyncha are a phylum of minute, segmented, marine invertebrates known as mud dragons, characterized by a spiny head and burrowing lifestyle in marine sediments.
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D.
Placozoa
Placozoa is a phylum of simple, flat, millimeter-sized marine animals with only a few distinct cell types and no true tissues or organs, considered among the most basal and primitive of all multicellular animals.
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E.
Anaspida
Anaspida is an extinct group of jawless, armored fishes known from the Silurian and Devonian periods, characterized by streamlined bodies and bony head shields.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
eukaryote clade
ⓘ
taxonomic group ⓘ |
| belongsToSupergroup | Excavata NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cellType | eukaryotic ⓘ |
| cellularity | unicellular ⓘ |
| characterizedBy | disc-shaped mitochondrial cristae ⓘ |
| contains |
Euglenozoa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Heterolobosea NERFINISHED ⓘ Jakobida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| domain |
Eukarya
ⓘ
surface form:
Eukaryota
|
| environment |
aquatic habitats
ⓘ
soil habitats ⓘ |
| feedingMode | phagotrophy in many members ⓘ |
| geneticMaterial | linear chromosomes in nucleus ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic | excavated feeding groove in many members ⓘ |
| hasFlagellates | yes ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Euglenozoa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Heterolobosea NERFINISHED ⓘ Jakobida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMitochondrialCristae | disc-shaped cristae ⓘ |
| hasOrganelle | mitochondria with disc-shaped cristae ⓘ |
| hasTaxonomicStatus | proposed clade ⓘ |
| includes |
heterotrophic flagellates
ⓘ
kinetoplastid parasites ⓘ photosynthetic euglenids ⓘ |
| includesOrganisms |
free-living protists
ⓘ
parasitic protists ⓘ |
| isA | group of protists ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Excavata NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf | protist phylogeny studies ⓘ |
| kingdom | Eukaryota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| metabolism | diverse metabolic strategies ⓘ |
| mitochondrialCristaeShape | discoidal ⓘ |
| nuclearOrganization | typical eukaryotic nucleus ⓘ |
| parasitism | present in some members ⓘ |
| photosynthesis | present in some members ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Excavata morphology ⓘ |
| reproduction |
binary fission in many members
ⓘ
primarily asexual reproduction ⓘ |
| studiedIn |
evolutionary biology
ⓘ
protistology ⓘ |
| supergroup | Excavata NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| taxonomicRank | clade ⓘ |
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: Discicristata Description of subject: Discicristata is a major clade of unicellular eukaryotes within the supergroup Excavata, characterized by distinctive disc-shaped mitochondrial cristae.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Discicristata clade
this entity surface form:
Discicristata group