Pulmonary artery
E431117
The pulmonary artery is the large blood vessel that carries deoxygenated blood from the right ventricle of the heart to the lungs for oxygenation.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| pulmonary trunk | 2 |
| Pulmonary artery canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4332167 — 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: Pulmonary artery Context triple: [Heart, connectedTo, Pulmonary artery]
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A.
Vena Canal
Vena Canal is a principal waterway running through the historic fishing town of Chioggia in Italy’s Venetian lagoon.
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B.
Central Artery
The Central Artery is a major elevated and now mostly underground highway corridor running through downtown Boston, historically notorious for congestion and central to the "Big Dig" redevelopment project.
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C.
Clyve
Clyve is a given name, typically a modern or stylistic variant of the name Clive.
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D.
Takic branch
The Takic branch is a subgroup of the Uto-Aztecan language family comprising several closely related Indigenous languages of Southern California.
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E.
Ductus Exemplo
Ductus Exemplo is a Latin motto meaning "lead by example," emphasizing leadership through personal conduct and action.
- 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: Pulmonary artery Target entity description: The pulmonary artery is the large blood vessel that carries deoxygenated blood from the right ventricle of the heart to the lungs for oxygenation.
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A.
Vena Canal
Vena Canal is a principal waterway running through the historic fishing town of Chioggia in Italy’s Venetian lagoon.
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B.
Central Artery
The Central Artery is a major elevated and now mostly underground highway corridor running through downtown Boston, historically notorious for congestion and central to the "Big Dig" redevelopment project.
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C.
Clyve
Clyve is a given name, typically a modern or stylistic variant of the name Clive.
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D.
Takic branch
The Takic branch is a subgroup of the Uto-Aztecan language family comprising several closely related Indigenous languages of Southern California.
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E.
Ductus Exemplo
Ductus Exemplo is a Latin motto meaning "lead by example," emphasizing leadership through personal conduct and action.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artery
ⓘ
blood vessel ⓘ elastic artery ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
ascending aorta
ⓘ
left main bronchus ⓘ |
| arisesFrom | right ventricle outflow tract ⓘ |
| bloodTypeCarried |
high carbon dioxide content
ⓘ
low oxygen content ⓘ |
| branchesPattern | bifurcates into right and left pulmonary arteries ⓘ |
| carries | deoxygenated blood ⓘ |
| clinicalSignificance |
can be affected by congenital heart disease
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involved in pulmonary hypertension ⓘ site of pulmonary embolism lodging ⓘ |
| connectsTo | pulmonary valve ⓘ |
| distinguishingFeature | only major artery that normally carries deoxygenated blood in adults ⓘ |
| drainsRegion | right ventricle ⓘ |
| embryologicalOrigin |
sixth aortic arch
ⓘ
truncus arteriosus ⓘ |
| flowsInto | pulmonary arterioles ⓘ |
| function | carry deoxygenated blood from the heart to the lungs for oxygenation ⓘ |
| hasBranch |
left pulmonary artery
ⓘ
right pulmonary artery ⓘ |
| hasLumen | single large lumen in pulmonary trunk ⓘ |
| hasSegment |
lobar pulmonary arteries
ⓘ
pulmonary trunk ⓘ segmental pulmonary arteries ⓘ |
| imagingModality |
visualized by CT pulmonary angiography
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visualized by echocardiography ⓘ |
| innervation | autonomic nervous system fibers ⓘ |
| isConnectedTo | pulmonary veins via pulmonary capillaries ⓘ |
| latinName | arteria pulmonalis ⓘ |
| location | thoracic cavity ⓘ |
| originatesFrom |
pulmonary trunk
ⓘ
linked to:
Pulmonary artery
|
| oxygenationChange | blood becomes oxygenated in pulmonary capillaries after passing through ⓘ |
| partOf | pulmonary circulation ⓘ |
| pressureRange | lower pressure than systemic arteries ⓘ |
| regulation | influenced by hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction ⓘ |
| relatedCondition |
patent ductus arteriosus
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pulmonary arterial hypertension ⓘ pulmonary embolism ⓘ tetralogy of Fallot ⓘ |
| supplies | pulmonary capillary bed ⓘ |
| systemType | low-resistance vascular bed ⓘ |
| transportsBloodFrom | right ventricle of the heart ⓘ |
| transportsBloodTo | lungs ⓘ |
| valveAssociated | pulmonary valve ⓘ |
| wallType |
elastic tissue-rich wall
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thick tunica media ⓘ |
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: Pulmonary artery Description of subject: The pulmonary artery is the large blood vessel that carries deoxygenated blood from the right ventricle of the heart to the lungs for oxygenation.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Pulmonary artery
linked to: Pulmonary artery