Williamsia
E928051
Williamsia is a genus of Gram-positive, high-GC-content actinobacteria within the order Corynebacteriales, known for its environmental and occasionally opportunistic clinical isolates.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Williamsia canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11466542 — 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: Williamsia Context triple: [Corynebacteriales, containsGenus, Williamsia]
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A.
Lulworthia
Lulworthia is a genus of marine fungi known for colonizing submerged wood and other plant debris in ocean environments.
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B.
Rhodelia
Rhodelia is an unincorporated rural community located in Meade County, Kentucky, United States.
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C.
Girardinia
Girardinia is a small genus of stinging nettle-like flowering plants known for their fibrous stems and occurrence in tropical and subtropical regions.
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D.
Breitensteinia
Breitensteinia is a genus of small, bottom-dwelling catfish native to Southeast Asian freshwater habitats.
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E.
Swinglea
Swinglea is a small genus of flowering plants in the citrus family Rutaceae, known for thorny shrubs or small trees sometimes used as ornamentals or hedges in tropical regions.
- 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: Williamsia Target entity description: Williamsia is a genus of Gram-positive, high-GC-content actinobacteria within the order Corynebacteriales, known for its environmental and occasionally opportunistic clinical isolates.
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A.
Lulworthia
Lulworthia is a genus of marine fungi known for colonizing submerged wood and other plant debris in ocean environments.
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B.
Rhodelia
Rhodelia is an unincorporated rural community located in Meade County, Kentucky, United States.
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C.
Girardinia
Girardinia is a small genus of stinging nettle-like flowering plants known for their fibrous stems and occurrence in tropical and subtropical regions.
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D.
Breitensteinia
Breitensteinia is a genus of small, bottom-dwelling catfish native to Southeast Asian freshwater habitats.
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E.
Swinglea
Swinglea is a small genus of flowering plants in the citrus family Rutaceae, known for thorny shrubs or small trees sometimes used as ornamentals or hedges in tropical regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bacterial genus
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| belongsTo | order Corynebacteriales ⓘ |
| belongsToGroup | mycolic acid-containing actinobacteria ⓘ |
| biosafetyLevel | BSL-2 organism in clinical laboratories ⓘ |
| cellEnvelope | mycolic-acid-containing cell wall ⓘ |
| cellWallType | Gram-positive ⓘ |
| class | Actinobacteria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| clinicalRelevance | opportunistic pathogen ⓘ |
| clinicalRole | rare opportunistic clinical isolate ⓘ |
| containsSpecies |
Williamsia deligens
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Williamsia faeni ⓘ Williamsia maris NERFINISHED ⓘ Williamsia muralis NERFINISHED ⓘ Williamsia serinedens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cultureRequirement | grows on standard aerobic bacteriological media ⓘ |
| diagnosticChallenge | may be misidentified as other corynebacterioform bacteria ⓘ |
| environmentalRole | environmental actinobacterium ⓘ |
| firstDescribedIn | International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstDescriptionYear | 1999 ⓘ |
| GCContent | high-GC-content ⓘ |
| genomeCharacteristic | high guanine-cytosine DNA content ⓘ |
| GramStainResult | Gram-positive ⓘ |
| habitat |
environmental samples
ⓘ
freshwater environments ⓘ soil ⓘ |
| isIsolatedFrom | clinical specimens ⓘ |
| kingdom | Bacteria ⓘ |
| metabolism | aerobic ⓘ |
| morphology | irregular rods ⓘ |
| motility | non-motile ⓘ |
| namingEtymology | named in honor of microbiologist S. T. Williams ⓘ |
| order | Corynebacteriales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| oxygenRequirement | obligately aerobic ⓘ |
| pathogenicity | occasionally associated with human infections ⓘ |
| phylum | Actinobacteria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Corynebacterium
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nocardia NERFINISHED ⓘ Rhodococcus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shape | rod-shaped ⓘ |
| sporeFormation | non-spore-forming ⓘ |
| staining | Gram-positive staining reaction ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| typeSpecies | Williamsia muralis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Williamsia Description of subject: Williamsia is a genus of Gram-positive, high-GC-content actinobacteria within the order Corynebacteriales, known for its environmental and occasionally opportunistic clinical isolates.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.