FlyBase
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FlyBase is a comprehensive online database of genetic and genomic information for the fruit fly Drosophila and related species.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| FlyBase canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4645703 — 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: FlyBase Context triple: [Drosophila melanogaster, hasOnlineResource, FlyBase]
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A.
Drosophila melanogaster
Drosophila melanogaster is a small fruit fly species widely used as a model organism in genetics and developmental biology research.
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B.
Caenorhabditis elegans
Caenorhabditis elegans is a small, transparent roundworm widely used as a model organism in biology and genetics due to its simple anatomy, fully mapped cell lineage, and well-characterized nervous system.
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C.
Caenorhabditis
Caenorhabditis is a genus of small, free-living nematode worms widely used as model organisms in biological and genetic research.
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D.
NCBI E-utilities API
The NCBI E-utilities API is a set of programmatic web services that allow automated querying, retrieval, and integration of data from NCBI databases such as PubMed.
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E.
Musca
Musca is a small southern constellation representing a fly, located near the Southern Cross in the southern sky.
- 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: FlyBase Target entity description: FlyBase is a comprehensive online database of genetic and genomic information for the fruit fly Drosophila and related species.
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A.
Drosophila melanogaster
Drosophila melanogaster is a small fruit fly species widely used as a model organism in genetics and developmental biology research.
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B.
Caenorhabditis elegans
Caenorhabditis elegans is a small, transparent roundworm widely used as a model organism in biology and genetics due to its simple anatomy, fully mapped cell lineage, and well-characterized nervous system.
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C.
Caenorhabditis
Caenorhabditis is a genus of small, free-living nematode worms widely used as model organisms in biological and genetic research.
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D.
NCBI E-utilities API
The NCBI E-utilities API is a set of programmatic web services that allow automated querying, retrieval, and integration of data from NCBI databases such as PubMed.
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E.
Musca
Musca is a small southern constellation representing a fly, located near the Southern Cross in the southern sky.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biological database
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genetics database ⓘ genomics database ⓘ model organism database ⓘ online database ⓘ |
| domain |
developmental biology
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genetics ⓘ genomics ⓘ model organism research ⓘ molecular biology ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
fruit fly genetics
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fruit fly genomics ⓘ model organism Drosophila ⓘ
linked to:
Drosophila
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| goal |
to provide comprehensive genetic and genomic information for Drosophila
ⓘ
to support Drosophila research community ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
API access
ⓘ
controlled vocabulary annotations ⓘ cross-references to external databases ⓘ curated literature links ⓘ downloadable datasets ⓘ functional annotation ⓘ genome browser ⓘ mutant phenotype summaries ⓘ orthology data ⓘ pathway information ⓘ query tools ⓘ searchable gene reports ⓘ |
| hasTaxonomicScope |
Drosophila melanogaster
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other Drosophila species ⓘ related Diptera species ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Drosophila melanogaster
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Drosophila species ⓘ |
| provides |
allele information
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controlled vocabularies ⓘ expression data ⓘ gene information ⓘ genetic interaction data ⓘ genomic annotations ⓘ literature curation ⓘ molecular interaction data ⓘ ontologies ⓘ phenotype data ⓘ reference genome annotations ⓘ sequence data ⓘ stock information ⓘ |
| usedBy |
bioinformaticians
ⓘ
developmental biologists ⓘ evolutionary biologists ⓘ geneticists ⓘ genomic researchers ⓘ neurobiologists ⓘ |
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: FlyBase Description of subject: FlyBase is a comprehensive online database of genetic and genomic information for the fruit fly Drosophila and related species.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.