Erwinia

E931846

bacteria genus bacterial species genus

Erwinia is a genus of plant-pathogenic bacteria known for causing diseases such as fire blight in fruit trees and soft rot in various crops.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Erwinia canonical	1

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	bacteria genus ⓘ bacterial species ⓘ bacterial species ⓘ genus ⓘ
affects	apple trees ⓘ apple trees ⓘ fruit trees ⓘ pear trees ⓘ pear trees ⓘ pome fruit trees ⓘ potato tubers ⓘ various crops ⓘ vegetable crops ⓘ
causes	fire blight ⓘ fire blight ⓘ plant disease ⓘ soft rot ⓘ soft rot ⓘ
class	Gammaproteobacteria NERFINISHED ⓘ
controlMethod	chemical control ⓘ resistant cultivars ⓘ sanitation ⓘ
domain	Bacteria ⓘ
family	Erwiniaceae NERFINISHED ⓘ
genus	Erwinia NERFINISHED ⓘ Erwinia NERFINISHED ⓘ
gramStain	Gram-negative ⓘ
habitat	phyllosphere ⓘ plant tissues ⓘ rhizosphere ⓘ
is	plant-pathogenic bacterium genus ⓘ
metabolism	facultatively anaerobic ⓘ
motility	motile ⓘ
namedAfter	Erwin Frink Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ
order	Enterobacterales NERFINISHED ⓘ
parentTaxon	Erwiniaceae NERFINISHED ⓘ
phylum	Pseudomonadota NERFINISHED ⓘ
relevance	agricultural pathogen ⓘ economic importance in horticulture ⓘ
shape	rod-shaped ⓘ
taxonRank	genus ⓘ
transmission	contaminated tools ⓘ insects ⓘ rain splash ⓘ
typeSpecies	Erwinia amylovora 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: Erwinia
Description of subject: Erwinia is a genus of plant-pathogenic bacteria known for causing diseases such as fire blight in fruit trees and soft rot in various crops.

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Gammaproteobacteria → includesGenus → Erwinia ⓘ