Mycobacterium canettii
E937947
Mycobacterium canettii is a rare, smooth-colony–forming member of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex that causes tuberculosis-like disease in humans and is considered evolutionarily ancestral to typical M. tuberculosis strains.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mycobacterium canettii canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11466778 — 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: Mycobacterium canettii Context triple: [Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, containsTaxon, Mycobacterium canettii]
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A.
Mycobacterium kansasii
Mycobacterium kansasii is a slow-growing, non-tuberculous mycobacterial species that commonly causes pulmonary infections resembling tuberculosis, particularly in immunocompromised individuals.
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B.
Mycobacterium fortuitum
Mycobacterium fortuitum is a rapidly growing, nontuberculous mycobacterial species that can cause opportunistic skin, soft tissue, and device-related infections in humans.
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C.
Mycobacterium chelonae
Mycobacterium chelonae is a rapidly growing nontuberculous mycobacterial species that can cause skin, soft tissue, and ocular infections in humans, often associated with trauma or medical procedures.
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D.
Mycobacterium marinum
Mycobacterium marinum is a waterborne, slow-growing, non-tuberculous mycobacterial species that commonly infects fish and can cause skin and soft tissue infections in humans, especially after exposure to aquariums or natural bodies of water.
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E.
Mycobacterium
Mycobacterium is a genus of rod-shaped, often slow-growing bacteria that includes important human pathogens such as the causative agents of tuberculosis and leprosy.
- 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: Mycobacterium canettii Target entity description: Mycobacterium canettii is a rare, smooth-colony–forming member of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex that causes tuberculosis-like disease in humans and is considered evolutionarily ancestral to typical M. tuberculosis strains.
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A.
Mycobacterium kansasii
Mycobacterium kansasii is a slow-growing, non-tuberculous mycobacterial species that commonly causes pulmonary infections resembling tuberculosis, particularly in immunocompromised individuals.
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B.
Mycobacterium fortuitum
Mycobacterium fortuitum is a rapidly growing, nontuberculous mycobacterial species that can cause opportunistic skin, soft tissue, and device-related infections in humans.
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C.
Mycobacterium chelonae
Mycobacterium chelonae is a rapidly growing nontuberculous mycobacterial species that can cause skin, soft tissue, and ocular infections in humans, often associated with trauma or medical procedures.
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D.
Mycobacterium marinum
Mycobacterium marinum is a waterborne, slow-growing, non-tuberculous mycobacterial species that commonly infects fish and can cause skin and soft tissue infections in humans, especially after exposure to aquariums or natural bodies of water.
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E.
Mycobacterium
Mycobacterium is a genus of rod-shaped, often slow-growing bacteria that includes important human pathogens such as the causative agents of tuberculosis and leprosy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bacterium
ⓘ
pathogen ⓘ |
| acidFastDyeRetention | retains carbol fuchsin after acid-alcohol decolorization ⓘ |
| acidFastStain | acid-fast ⓘ |
| antibioticResistanceMechanism | shares resistance mechanisms with other Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex members ⓘ |
| antibioticSusceptibility | susceptible to standard first-line antituberculous drugs in many isolates ⓘ |
| biosafetyLevel | BSL-3 ⓘ |
| biosyntheticCapability | synthesizes mycolic acids ⓘ |
| causes | tuberculosis-like disease in humans ⓘ |
| cellEnvelope | lipid-rich ⓘ |
| cellWallType | mycolic-acid-rich ⓘ |
| clinicalPresentation | similar to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection ⓘ |
| colonyMorphology | smooth ⓘ |
| cultureMedium |
Lowenstein-Jensen medium
ⓘ
linked to:
Lowenstein–Jensen medium
Middlebrook 7H10 agar ⓘ |
| discoveryContext | isolated from human tuberculosis cases ⓘ |
| diseaseCategory | tuberculosis ⓘ |
| diseaseType |
extrapulmonary infection
ⓘ
pulmonary infection ⓘ |
| domain | Bacteria ⓘ |
| evolutionaryStatus | ancestral to typical Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains ⓘ |
| family | Mycobacteriaceae ⓘ |
| genomeType |
circular chromosome
ⓘ
double-stranded DNA ⓘ |
| genus | Mycobacterium ⓘ |
| geographicAssociation |
East Africa
ⓘ
Horn of Africa ⓘ |
| gramStain | Gram-positive ⓘ |
| growthRate | slow-growing ⓘ |
| host | human ⓘ |
| memberOf | Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Georges Canetti ⓘ |
| order | Corynebacteriales ⓘ |
| oxygenRequirement | aerobic ⓘ |
| pathogenicity | pathogenic to humans ⓘ |
| phylogeneticGroup | smooth tubercle bacilli ⓘ |
| phylum | Actinobacteria ⓘ |
| publicHealthRelevance | rare cause of human tuberculosis ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Mycobacterium africanum
ⓘ
Mycobacterium bovis ⓘ Mycobacterium tuberculosis ⓘ |
| researchUse | model for ancestral Mycobacterium tuberculosis evolution ⓘ |
| shape | rod-shaped ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| temperaturePreference | mesophilic ⓘ |
| transmissionRoute | presumed airborne ⓘ |
| zoonoticPotential | possible but not well established ⓘ |
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: Mycobacterium canettii Description of subject: Mycobacterium canettii is a rare, smooth-colony–forming member of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex that causes tuberculosis-like disease in humans and is considered evolutionarily ancestral to typical M. tuberculosis strains.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.