Nipah virus
E1221658
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Nipah virus is a highly lethal zoonotic paramyxovirus that causes severe respiratory illness and encephalitis in humans, with fruit bats as its natural reservoir.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nipah virus canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16585358 — 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: Nipah virus Context triple: [MEV-1, modeledAfter, Nipah virus]
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A.
Hendra virus
Hendra virus is a highly lethal zoonotic virus originating in fruit bats that can infect horses and humans, causing severe respiratory and neurological disease.
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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.
Ebolavirus
Ebolavirus is a genus of filamentous, enveloped RNA viruses in the Filoviridae family that cause severe and often fatal hemorrhagic fever in humans and other primates.
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D.
Japanese encephalitis virus
Japanese encephalitis virus is a mosquito-borne flavivirus that causes severe inflammation of the brain in humans and is a leading cause of viral encephalitis in Asia.
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E.
Zaire ebolavirus
Zaire ebolavirus is a highly virulent species of Ebola virus responsible for severe hemorrhagic fever outbreaks in humans, including the major 2014–2016 epidemic in West Africa.
- 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: Nipah virus Target entity description: Nipah virus is a highly lethal zoonotic paramyxovirus that causes severe respiratory illness and encephalitis in humans, with fruit bats as its natural reservoir.
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A.
Hendra virus
Hendra virus is a highly lethal zoonotic virus originating in fruit bats that can infect horses and humans, causing severe respiratory and neurological disease.
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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.
Ebolavirus
Ebolavirus is a genus of filamentous, enveloped RNA viruses in the Filoviridae family that cause severe and often fatal hemorrhagic fever in humans and other primates.
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D.
Japanese encephalitis virus
Japanese encephalitis virus is a mosquito-borne flavivirus that causes severe inflammation of the brain in humans and is a leading cause of viral encephalitis in Asia.
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E.
Zaire ebolavirus
Zaire ebolavirus is a highly virulent species of Ebola virus responsible for severe hemorrhagic fever outbreaks in humans, including the major 2014–2016 epidemic in West Africa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.