Metamonada
E727690
Metamonada is a diverse group of mostly anaerobic, flagellated protists that often live as symbionts or parasites in animal hosts and lack classical mitochondria.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Metamonada canonical | 6 |
| Metamonada group | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8357281 — 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: Metamonada Context triple: [Excavata, hasMember, Metamonada]
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A.
Monade
Monade is a French indie pop project led by Laetitia Sadier, known for its atmospheric, experimental sound that parallels her work with Stereolab.
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B.
Metreon
Metreon is a large entertainment and retail complex in downtown San Francisco featuring shops, restaurants, a movie theater, and event spaces.
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C.
Moniaive
Moniaive is a small rural village in southwest Scotland known for its scenic surroundings and vibrant arts and music community.
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D.
Monoclonius
Monoclonius is a dubious genus of ceratopsid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of North America, historically known from fragmentary horned dinosaur fossils.
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E.
Monolitten
Monolitten is a famous 14-meter-tall granite sculpture by Gustav Vigeland, carved from a single stone and standing as the central monument in Oslo’s Vigeland Park.
- 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: Metamonada Target entity description: Metamonada is a diverse group of mostly anaerobic, flagellated protists that often live as symbionts or parasites in animal hosts and lack classical mitochondria.
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A.
Monade
Monade is a French indie pop project led by Laetitia Sadier, known for its atmospheric, experimental sound that parallels her work with Stereolab.
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B.
Metreon
Metreon is a large entertainment and retail complex in downtown San Francisco featuring shops, restaurants, a movie theater, and event spaces.
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C.
Moniaive
Moniaive is a small rural village in southwest Scotland known for its scenic surroundings and vibrant arts and music community.
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D.
Monoclonius
Monoclonius is a dubious genus of ceratopsid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of North America, historically known from fragmentary horned dinosaur fossils.
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E.
Monolitten
Monolitten is a famous 14-meter-tall granite sculpture by Gustav Vigeland, carved from a single stone and standing as the central monument in Oslo’s Vigeland Park.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
eukaryote clade
ⓘ
protist group ⓘ |
| associatedWithDisease |
bovine trichomoniasis
ⓘ
giardiasis ⓘ trichomoniasis ⓘ |
| associatedWithHost |
birds
ⓘ
cattle ⓘ fish ⓘ humans ⓘ reptiles ⓘ |
| cellMorphology |
often have parabasal apparatus in parabasalians
ⓘ
often have ventral adhesive disc in fornicates ⓘ |
| cellStructure |
lack typical mitochondria with cristae
ⓘ
modified mitochondrion-related organelles ⓘ |
| characteristic |
flagellated
ⓘ
lack classical mitochondria ⓘ mostly anaerobic ⓘ often parasitic in animal hosts ⓘ often symbiotic in animal hosts ⓘ |
| containsGroup |
Carpediemonas-like organisms
ⓘ
Fornicata ⓘ Parabasalia ⓘ Preaxostyla ⓘ |
| containsOrganism |
Giardia lamblia
ⓘ
linked to:
Giardia
Hexamita inflata ⓘ Spironucleus vortens ⓘ Trichomonas vaginalis ⓘ
linked to:
Trichomonas
Tritrichomonas foetus ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | molecular phylogenetic analyses of excavates ⓘ |
| domain |
Eukaryota
ⓘ
linked to:
Eukarya
|
| ecologicalRole |
parasite of vertebrates
ⓘ
symbiont in herbivore digestion ⓘ |
| energyProduction | substrate-level phosphorylation in modified organelles ⓘ |
| flagellaNumber | multiple flagella in many species ⓘ |
| genomeFeature | reduced mitochondrial genomes or absent mitochondrial DNA ⓘ |
| habitat |
animal intestinal tract
ⓘ
animal urogenital tract ⓘ anoxic or micro-oxic environments ⓘ rumen of herbivorous mammals ⓘ |
| hasOrganelleType |
hydrogenosome
ⓘ
mitosome ⓘ |
| kingdom | Excavata ⓘ |
| metabolism | anaerobic energy metabolism ⓘ |
| motility | flagellar movement ⓘ |
| oxygenTolerance | microaerophilic or anaerobic ⓘ |
| phylogeneticPosition | within supergroup Excavata ⓘ |
| reproduction | asexual reproduction ⓘ |
| taxonomicRank | phylum ⓘ |
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: Metamonada Description of subject: Metamonada is a diverse group of mostly anaerobic, flagellated protists that often live as symbionts or parasites in animal hosts and lack classical mitochondria.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Metamonada