Kurthia
E938722
Kurthia is a genus of Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacteria within the order Bacillales, commonly found in soil and other environmental habitats.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kurthia canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11642989 — 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: Kurthia Context triple: [Bacillales, includesGenus, Kurthia]
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A.
Korthia
Korthia is a mysterious, lore-rich fragment of the Shadowlands known as the City of Secrets, introduced in World of Warcraft’s Chains of Domination update.
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B.
Rhodogune
Rhodogune was an Achaemenid Persian queen, known primarily as the mother of King Darius I of Persia.
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C.
Kerria
Kerria is a small genus of deciduous flowering shrubs, best known for the ornamental Japanese kerria with its bright yellow, rose-like blooms.
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D.
Meliae
The Meliae are nymphs from Greek mythology associated with ash trees and often linked to the early generations of humanity and rustic woodland life.
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E.
Stheneboea
Stheneboea is a figure in Greek mythology, the wife of King Proetus of Tiryns, known for her tragic role in the story of the hero Bellerophon.
- 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: Kurthia Target entity description: Kurthia is a genus of Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacteria within the order Bacillales, commonly found in soil and other environmental habitats.
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A.
Korthia
Korthia is a mysterious, lore-rich fragment of the Shadowlands known as the City of Secrets, introduced in World of Warcraft’s Chains of Domination update.
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B.
Rhodogune
Rhodogune was an Achaemenid Persian queen, known primarily as the mother of King Darius I of Persia.
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C.
Kerria
Kerria is a small genus of deciduous flowering shrubs, best known for the ornamental Japanese kerria with its bright yellow, rose-like blooms.
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D.
Meliae
The Meliae are nymphs from Greek mythology associated with ash trees and often linked to the early generations of humanity and rustic woodland life.
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E.
Stheneboea
Stheneboea is a figure in Greek mythology, the wife of King Proetus of Tiryns, known for her tragic role in the story of the hero Bellerophon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bacterial genus
ⓘ
taxon ⓘ |
| belongsToFamily | Planococcaceae ⓘ |
| cellArrangement |
short chains
ⓘ
single rods ⓘ |
| cellEnvelope | monoderm ⓘ |
| cellShape | rod-shaped ⓘ |
| cellWallType | thick peptidoglycan layer ⓘ |
| class |
Bacilli
ⓘ
linked to:
Bacillales
|
| domain | Bacteria ⓘ |
| firstDescriptionYear | 1883 ⓘ |
| foundIn |
decaying organic matter
ⓘ
food products ⓘ water ⓘ |
| gramStain | Gram-positive ⓘ |
| habitat |
environmental habitats
ⓘ
soil ⓘ |
| kingdom | Bacteria ⓘ |
| metabolism | aerobic ⓘ |
| motility | motile ⓘ |
| namedAfter | H. Kurth ⓘ |
| order | Bacillales ⓘ |
| oxygenRequirement | obligate aerobe ⓘ |
| pathogenicity | generally non-pathogenic to humans ⓘ |
| phylum |
Bacillota
ⓘ
linked to:
Firmicutes
|
| reproduction | binary fission ⓘ |
| sporeFormation | non-spore-forming ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| temperaturePreference | mesophilic ⓘ |
| typeSpecies | Kurthia zopfii ⓘ |
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: Kurthia Description of subject: Kurthia is a genus of Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacteria within the order Bacillales, commonly found in soil and other environmental habitats.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.