Bacillus thuringiensis
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Bacillus thuringiensis is a soil-dwelling bacterium widely used in agriculture for its natural insecticidal proteins that protect crops from pests.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bacillus thuringiensis canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T22629944 — 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: Bacillus thuringiensis Context triple: [Bt cotton, engineeredWithGeneFrom, Bacillus thuringiensis]
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A.
Bacillus
Bacillus is a genus of rod-shaped, endospore-forming bacteria that includes both harmless environmental species and notable pathogens such as Bacillus anthracis.
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B.
Bacillus subtilis
Bacillus subtilis is a rod-shaped, Gram-positive, endospore-forming bacterium widely used as a model organism in microbiology and biotechnology.
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C.
Bacillus megaterium
Bacillus megaterium is a large, rod-shaped, non-pathogenic soil bacterium widely used as a model organism and in industrial biotechnology for enzyme and protein production.
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D.
Metarhizium
Metarhizium is a genus of entomopathogenic fungi widely used in biological control to infect and kill insect pests.
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E.
Bacillus anthracis
Bacillus anthracis is a Gram-positive, spore-forming bacterium that causes the disease anthrax in humans and animals.
- 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: Bacillus thuringiensis Target entity description: Bacillus thuringiensis is a soil-dwelling bacterium widely used in agriculture for its natural insecticidal proteins that protect crops from pests.
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A.
Bacillus
Bacillus is a genus of rod-shaped, endospore-forming bacteria that includes both harmless environmental species and notable pathogens such as Bacillus anthracis.
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B.
Bacillus subtilis
Bacillus subtilis is a rod-shaped, Gram-positive, endospore-forming bacterium widely used as a model organism in microbiology and biotechnology.
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C.
Bacillus megaterium
Bacillus megaterium is a large, rod-shaped, non-pathogenic soil bacterium widely used as a model organism and in industrial biotechnology for enzyme and protein production.
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D.
Metarhizium
Metarhizium is a genus of entomopathogenic fungi widely used in biological control to infect and kill insect pests.
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E.
Bacillus anthracis
Bacillus anthracis is a Gram-positive, spore-forming bacterium that causes the disease anthrax in humans and animals.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.