Discoba
E727691
Discoba is a major group of unicellular eukaryotes within the supergroup Excavata, encompassing diverse flagellated protists such as euglenids and kinetoplastids.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Discoba canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8357282 — 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: Discoba Context triple: [Excavata, hasMember, Discoba]
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A.
Discaria
Discaria is a small genus of spiny shrubs native to South America and New Zealand, known for their nitrogen-fixing ability and adaptation to dry, open habitats.
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B.
Divinidylle
Divinidylle is a 2007 French pop album by singer Vanessa Paradis that marked her successful musical comeback and featured the hit single "Divine Idylle."
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C.
Labdacid
Labdacid refers to the royal house of Thebes descended from King Labdacus, including figures such as Oedipus and Antigone in Greek mythology.
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D.
Sibhaca
Sibhaca is a vigorous traditional Swazi dance characterized by high kicking, rhythmic stomping, and powerful group performances often accompanied by chanting and drumming.
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E.
Quidam
Quidam is a Cirque du Soleil touring production known for its surreal, introspective narrative and innovative blend of acrobatics, music, and visual artistry.
- 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: Discoba Target entity description: Discoba is a major group of unicellular eukaryotes within the supergroup Excavata, encompassing diverse flagellated protists such as euglenids and kinetoplastids.
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A.
Discaria
Discaria is a small genus of spiny shrubs native to South America and New Zealand, known for their nitrogen-fixing ability and adaptation to dry, open habitats.
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B.
Divinidylle
Divinidylle is a 2007 French pop album by singer Vanessa Paradis that marked her successful musical comeback and featured the hit single "Divine Idylle."
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C.
Labdacid
Labdacid refers to the royal house of Thebes descended from King Labdacus, including figures such as Oedipus and Antigone in Greek mythology.
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D.
Sibhaca
Sibhaca is a vigorous traditional Swazi dance characterized by high kicking, rhythmic stomping, and powerful group performances often accompanied by chanting and drumming.
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E.
Quidam
Quidam is a Cirque du Soleil touring production known for its surreal, introspective narrative and innovative blend of acrobatics, music, and visual artistry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
clade
ⓘ
major eukaryote group ⓘ taxon ⓘ |
| cellStructure | typically have ventral feeding groove ⓘ |
| cellType | protist ⓘ |
| cellularity | unicellular ⓘ |
| containsOrganismsWithLifestyle |
free-living
ⓘ
heterotrophic ⓘ parasitic ⓘ photosynthetic ⓘ |
| domain |
Eukaryota
ⓘ
linked to:
Eukarya
|
| ecologicalRole |
aquatic microorganisms
ⓘ
pathogens of animals ⓘ primary producers (photosynthetic members) ⓘ |
| energyMetabolism |
aerobic respiration in mitochondria
ⓘ
photosynthesis in plastid-bearing lineages ⓘ |
| evolutionarySignificance | important for understanding early diversification of eukaryotes ⓘ |
| flagella | one or more anterior flagella ⓘ |
| flagellarApparatus | complex basal bodies and roots ⓘ |
| geneticMaterial | linear chromosomes ⓘ |
| habitat |
freshwater
ⓘ
marine ⓘ soil ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
feeding groove of excavate type
ⓘ
flagellated cells ⓘ mitochondria with discoidal cristae ⓘ |
| hasNotableMember |
Euglena gracilis
ⓘ
linked to:
Euglena
Leishmania donovani ⓘ Naegleria fowleri ⓘ Trypanosoma brucei ⓘ
linked to:
Trypanosoma
|
| includes |
Euglena gracilis
ⓘ
linked to:
Euglena
Euglenozoa ⓘ Heterolobosea ⓘ
linked to:
Heteroloboseans
Jakobida ⓘ Leishmania major ⓘ
linked to:
Leishmania
Naegleria gruberi ⓘ Trypanosoma brucei ⓘ
linked to:
Trypanosoma
euglenids ⓘ kinetoplastids ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Excavata ⓘ |
| kingdom |
Eukaryota
ⓘ
linked to:
Eukarya
|
| mitochondrialCristaeType | discoidal ⓘ |
| nuclearOrganization | true nucleus ⓘ |
| reproduction | asexual reproduction ⓘ |
| studiedInField |
evolutionary biology
ⓘ
protistology ⓘ |
| supergroup | Excavata ⓘ |
| taxonomicRank | clade ⓘ |
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: Discoba Description of subject: Discoba is a major group of unicellular eukaryotes within the supergroup Excavata, encompassing diverse flagellated protists such as euglenids and kinetoplastids.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Heteroloboseans