Zaire ebolavirus
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Zaire ebolavirus is a highly virulent species of Ebola virus responsible for severe hemorrhagic fever outbreaks in humans, including the major 2014–2016 epidemic in West Africa.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Zaire ebolavirus canonical | 9 |
| EBOV | 1 |
| Ebola virus Zaire strain | 1 |
| Zaire ebolavirus (EBOV) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T701602 — 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: Zaire ebolavirus Context triple: [2014–2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak, causativeAgent, Zaire ebolavirus]
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Ebola virus disease
Ebola virus disease is a severe, often fatal illness in humans caused by infection with Ebola virus, characterized by fever, hemorrhaging, and organ failure, and known for causing major outbreaks such as the 2014–2016 West Africa epidemic.
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B.
rVSV-ZEBOV
rVSV-ZEBOV is an experimental recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus-based vaccine developed to protect humans against infection by the Zaire strain of the Ebola virus.
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2018–2020 Kivu Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The 2018–2020 Kivu Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was a major Ebola virus outbreak in the country’s conflict-affected eastern region that became the second-largest Ebola epidemic ever recorded and prompted a global emergency response.
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D.
Leqembi
Leqembi is an Alzheimer’s disease drug (lecanemab) that targets amyloid-beta plaques to slow cognitive decline in early-stage patients.
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E.
2014–2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak
The 2014–2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak was the largest and deadliest Ebola epidemic in history, primarily affecting Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone and prompting a major international public health emergency response.
- 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: Zaire ebolavirus Target entity description: Zaire ebolavirus is a highly virulent species of Ebola virus responsible for severe hemorrhagic fever outbreaks in humans, including the major 2014–2016 epidemic in West Africa.
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A.
Ebola virus disease
Ebola virus disease is a severe, often fatal illness in humans caused by infection with Ebola virus, characterized by fever, hemorrhaging, and organ failure, and known for causing major outbreaks such as the 2014–2016 West Africa epidemic.
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B.
rVSV-ZEBOV
rVSV-ZEBOV is an experimental recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus-based vaccine developed to protect humans against infection by the Zaire strain of the Ebola virus.
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C.
2018–2020 Kivu Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The 2018–2020 Kivu Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was a major Ebola virus outbreak in the country’s conflict-affected eastern region that became the second-largest Ebola epidemic ever recorded and prompted a global emergency response.
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D.
Leqembi
Leqembi is an Alzheimer’s disease drug (lecanemab) that targets amyloid-beta plaques to slow cognitive decline in early-stage patients.
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E.
2014–2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak
The 2014–2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak was the largest and deadliest Ebola epidemic in history, primarily affecting Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone and prompting a major international public health emergency response.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Zaire ebolavirus Description of subject: Zaire ebolavirus is a highly virulent species of Ebola virus responsible for severe hemorrhagic fever outbreaks in humans, including the major 2014–2016 epidemic in West Africa.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ebola virus Zaire strain
this entity surface form:
EBOV
this entity surface form:
Zaire ebolavirus (EBOV)