Oregon-R
E463278
Oregon-R is a widely used wild-type laboratory strain of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, serving as a standard reference in genetic and developmental biology research.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Oregon-R canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4645683 — 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: Oregon-R Context triple: [Drosophila melanogaster, labStrain, Oregon-R]
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A.
Oregon
Oregon is a U.S. state in the Pacific Northwest known for its diverse landscapes, including rugged coastline, dense forests, mountains, and high desert, as well as its environmentally conscious culture.
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B.
Oregon
Oregon is a village in Dane County, Wisconsin, known as a residential community just south of Madison.
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C.
D. Or.
D. Or. is the standard legal abbreviation for the United States District Court for the District of Oregon, a federal trial court within the Ninth Circuit.
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D.
Oregon and Washington
Oregon and Washington are neighboring U.S. states in the Pacific Northwest, known for their shared border along the Columbia River and their diverse landscapes of coastline, forests, mountains, and high desert.
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E.
Ontario, Oregon
Ontario, Oregon is a small city in eastern Oregon near the Idaho border, serving as a commercial and agricultural hub for the surrounding high desert region.
- 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: Oregon-R Target entity description: Oregon-R is a widely used wild-type laboratory strain of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, serving as a standard reference in genetic and developmental biology research.
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A.
Oregon
Oregon is a U.S. state in the Pacific Northwest known for its diverse landscapes, including rugged coastline, dense forests, mountains, and high desert, as well as its environmentally conscious culture.
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B.
Oregon
Oregon is a village in Dane County, Wisconsin, known as a residential community just south of Madison.
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C.
D. Or.
D. Or. is the standard legal abbreviation for the United States District Court for the District of Oregon, a federal trial court within the Ninth Circuit.
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D.
Oregon and Washington
Oregon and Washington are neighboring U.S. states in the Pacific Northwest, known for their shared border along the Columbia River and their diverse landscapes of coastline, forests, mountains, and high desert.
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E.
Ontario, Oregon
Ontario, Oregon is a small city in eastern Oregon near the Idaho border, serving as a commercial and agricultural hub for the surrounding high desert region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Drosophila melanogaster strain
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laboratory strain ⓘ wild-type strain ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
fertile adults
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genetically heterogeneous stock ⓘ normal bristle pattern ⓘ normal wings ⓘ outbred origin ⓘ red eyes ⓘ relatively low spontaneous mutation rate ⓘ viable homozygotes ⓘ |
| hasRole |
control line in experiments
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reference genotype ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center
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multiple Drosophila stock centers ⓘ |
| originatedIn |
Oregon, United States
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linked to:
Oregon
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| taxon | Drosophila melanogaster ⓘ |
| usedAs |
standard reference strain
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wild-type control ⓘ |
| usedFor |
behavioral studies
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developmental biology research ⓘ gene function analysis ⓘ genetic mapping ⓘ genetics research ⓘ mutagenesis screens ⓘ neurobiology research ⓘ population genetics studies ⓘ reference genome comparisons ⓘ toxicology studies ⓘ transgenic line generation ⓘ |
| usedIn |
CRISPR-based genome editing studies
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RNA interference experiments ⓘ cell signaling pathway analysis ⓘ circadian rhythm research ⓘ classical Drosophila genetics ⓘ comparative genomics of Drosophila strains ⓘ courtship behavior assays ⓘ embryonic development studies ⓘ epigenetic studies ⓘ forward genetic screens ⓘ gene expression profiling ⓘ learning and memory assays ⓘ lifespan and aging studies ⓘ olfaction studies ⓘ oogenesis studies ⓘ organogenesis studies ⓘ reverse genetics experiments ⓘ vision studies ⓘ |
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: Oregon-R Description of subject: Oregon-R is a widely used wild-type laboratory strain of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, serving as a standard reference in genetic and developmental biology research.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.