Lawsonella
E928049
Lawsonella is a bacterial genus within the order Corynebacteriales, comprising Gram-positive, often opportunistic species associated with human infections.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lawsonella canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11466540 — 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: Lawsonella Context triple: [Corynebacteriales, containsGenus, Lawsonella]
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A.
Dumetella
Dumetella is a small genus of New World passerine birds best known for including the gray catbird, a mimicking songbird found across much of North America.
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B.
Xenicus gilviventris
Xenicus gilviventris, commonly known as the rock wren, is a small, ground-dwelling New Zealand wren endemic to alpine and rocky habitats of New Zealand’s South Island.
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C.
Hymenolaimus
Hymenolaimus is a monotypic genus of ducks that includes the rare, fast-flowing river specialist known as the blue duck or whio, endemic to New Zealand.
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D.
Reissekia
Reissekia is a small genus of flowering plants in the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae, native to parts of South America.
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E.
Helicophagus
Helicophagus is a genus of freshwater catfish within the family Pangasiidae, native to rivers in Southeast Asia.
- 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: Lawsonella Target entity description: Lawsonella is a bacterial genus within the order Corynebacteriales, comprising Gram-positive, often opportunistic species associated with human infections.
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A.
Dumetella
Dumetella is a small genus of New World passerine birds best known for including the gray catbird, a mimicking songbird found across much of North America.
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B.
Xenicus gilviventris
Xenicus gilviventris, commonly known as the rock wren, is a small, ground-dwelling New Zealand wren endemic to alpine and rocky habitats of New Zealand’s South Island.
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C.
Hymenolaimus
Hymenolaimus is a monotypic genus of ducks that includes the rare, fast-flowing river specialist known as the blue duck or whio, endemic to New Zealand.
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D.
Reissekia
Reissekia is a small genus of flowering plants in the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae, native to parts of South America.
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E.
Helicophagus
Helicophagus is a genus of freshwater catfish within the family Pangasiidae, native to rivers in Southeast Asia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | bacterial genus ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
abscess formation
ⓘ
human infections ⓘ immunocompromised hosts ⓘ pulmonary infections ⓘ soft tissue infections ⓘ |
| belongsToDomain | Bacteria ⓘ |
| belongsToOrder | Corynebacteriales ⓘ |
| belongsToPhylum |
Actinobacteriota
ⓘ
linked to:
Actinomycetota
|
| cellShape | rod-shaped ⓘ |
| cellWallType | Gram-positive cell wall ⓘ |
| clinicalRelevance |
cause of opportunistic infections
ⓘ
emerging pathogen ⓘ |
| diagnosticChallenge | often misidentified in clinical microbiology laboratories ⓘ |
| firstDescribedAsGenus | 21st century ⓘ |
| gramStain | Gram-positive ⓘ |
| habitat | human clinical specimens ⓘ |
| morphology |
branching rods
ⓘ
filamentous ⓘ |
| oxygenRequirement | anaerobic ⓘ |
| parentTaxon | Corynebacteriales ⓘ |
| pathogenicity | opportunistic pathogen ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Corynebacterium
ⓘ
Mycobacterium ⓘ Nocardia ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
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: Lawsonella Description of subject: Lawsonella is a bacterial genus within the order Corynebacteriales, comprising Gram-positive, often opportunistic species associated with human infections.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.