MERS-CoV
E1070489
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MERS-CoV is the coronavirus responsible for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, a severe respiratory illness first identified in Saudi Arabia in 2012.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| MERS-CoV canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13942266 — 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: MERS-CoV Context triple: [SARS-CoV-2, relatedTo, MERS-CoV]
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A.
SARS-CoV-2
SARS-CoV-2 is the novel coronavirus responsible for the global outbreak of the respiratory disease COVID-19.
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B.
Marburg virus
Marburg virus is a highly lethal filovirus that causes severe hemorrhagic fever in humans and nonhuman primates, similar to Ebola.
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C.
Human mastadenovirus D
Human mastadenovirus D is a species of human adenoviruses that includes multiple serotypes, some of which are used as viral vectors in vaccine development and gene therapy.
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D.
Mastadenovirus
Mastadenovirus is a genus of non-enveloped, double-stranded DNA viruses in the Adenoviridae family that infect mammals, including humans, and are associated with a range of respiratory, ocular, and gastrointestinal diseases.
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E.
John Cunningham virus
John Cunningham virus is a human polyomavirus that typically remains latent but can cause the severe demyelinating brain disease progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy in immunocompromised individuals.
- 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: MERS-CoV Target entity description: MERS-CoV is the coronavirus responsible for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, a severe respiratory illness first identified in Saudi Arabia in 2012.
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A.
SARS-CoV-2
SARS-CoV-2 is the novel coronavirus responsible for the global outbreak of the respiratory disease COVID-19.
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B.
Marburg virus
Marburg virus is a highly lethal filovirus that causes severe hemorrhagic fever in humans and nonhuman primates, similar to Ebola.
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C.
Human mastadenovirus D
Human mastadenovirus D is a species of human adenoviruses that includes multiple serotypes, some of which are used as viral vectors in vaccine development and gene therapy.
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D.
Mastadenovirus
Mastadenovirus is a genus of non-enveloped, double-stranded DNA viruses in the Adenoviridae family that infect mammals, including humans, and are associated with a range of respiratory, ocular, and gastrointestinal diseases.
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E.
John Cunningham virus
John Cunningham virus is a human polyomavirus that typically remains latent but can cause the severe demyelinating brain disease progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy in immunocompromised individuals.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.