Crenarchaeota
E41890
Crenarchaeota is a major phylum of Archaea that includes many thermophilic and chemolithoautotrophic microorganisms commonly found in extreme environments such as hot springs and deep-sea hydrothermal vents.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Crenarchaeota canonical | 6 |
| Desulfurococcales | 2 |
| Thermoproteales | 2 |
| Thermoproteota | 2 |
| Acidilobales | 1 |
| Sulfolobales | 1 |
| Sulfolobus acidocaldarius | 1 |
| Thermoproteaceae | 1 |
| Thermoprotei | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T321263 — 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: Crenarchaeota Context triple: [Archaea, kingdomsIncluded, Crenarchaeota]
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A.
Euryarchaeota
Euryarchaeota is a major phylum of Archaea that includes diverse microorganisms such as many methanogens, extreme halophiles, and some thermophiles.
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B.
Archaea
Archaea are a domain of single-celled microorganisms distinct from bacteria and eukaryotes, often known for thriving in extreme environments and possessing unique biochemical and genetic features.
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C.
Monera
Monera is a former biological kingdom that comprised all prokaryotic, single-celled organisms such as bacteria and archaea, distinguished by their lack of a true nucleus and membrane-bound organelles.
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D.
Protista
Protista is a diverse kingdom of mostly single-celled eukaryotic organisms that are neither animals, plants, nor fungi.
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E.
Eukarya
Eukarya is the domain of life comprising all organisms with complex eukaryotic cells containing membrane-bound organelles and a true nucleus.
- 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: Crenarchaeota Target entity description: Crenarchaeota is a major phylum of Archaea that includes many thermophilic and chemolithoautotrophic microorganisms commonly found in extreme environments such as hot springs and deep-sea hydrothermal vents.
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A.
Euryarchaeota
Euryarchaeota is a major phylum of Archaea that includes diverse microorganisms such as many methanogens, extreme halophiles, and some thermophiles.
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B.
Archaea
Archaea are a domain of single-celled microorganisms distinct from bacteria and eukaryotes, often known for thriving in extreme environments and possessing unique biochemical and genetic features.
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C.
Monera
Monera is a former biological kingdom that comprised all prokaryotic, single-celled organisms such as bacteria and archaea, distinguished by their lack of a true nucleus and membrane-bound organelles.
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D.
Protista
Protista is a diverse kingdom of mostly single-celled eukaryotic organisms that are neither animals, plants, nor fungi.
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E.
Eukarya
Eukarya is the domain of life comprising all organisms with complex eukaryotic cells containing membrane-bound organelles and a true nucleus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
archaeal phylum
ⓘ
phylum ⓘ |
| carbonSource | carbon dioxide ⓘ |
| cellMembrane | ether-linked isoprenoid lipids ⓘ |
| cellShape |
coccus (in many species)
ⓘ
rod-shaped (in many species) ⓘ |
| cellWall | S-layer ⓘ |
| discoveredIn | 20th century ⓘ |
| distinguishedFrom | Euryarchaeota ⓘ |
| domain | Archaea ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole |
nitrogen cycling (in some lineages)
ⓘ
primary production in extreme environments ⓘ sulfur cycling ⓘ |
| energySource |
oxidation of hydrogen
ⓘ
oxidation of reduced sulfur compounds ⓘ |
| genomeType | circular DNA ⓘ |
| habitat |
deep-sea hydrothermal vents
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freshwater environments ⓘ geothermal soils ⓘ hot springs ⓘ marine environments ⓘ soil ⓘ submarine volcanoes ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
acidophilic (in many species)
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chemolithoautotrophic ⓘ extremophilic ⓘ thermophilic ⓘ |
| hasRepresentative |
Ignicoccus hospitalis
ⓘ
Pyrobaculum aerophilum ⓘ Crenarchaeota self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Sulfolobus acidocaldarius
Sulfolobus solfataricus ⓘ Thermoproteus tenax ⓘ |
| hasSubtaxon |
Crenarchaeota
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Acidilobales
Crenarchaeota self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Desulfurococcales
Crenarchaeota self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Sulfolobales
Crenarchaeota self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Thermoproteales
|
| isPartOf |
Archaea
ⓘ
TACK superphylum ⓘ |
| kingdom | Archaea ⓘ |
| metabolism |
aerobic respiration (in many species)
ⓘ
anaerobic respiration (in some species) ⓘ chemolithoautotrophy ⓘ |
| oxygenRequirement |
aerobic (many species)
ⓘ
anaerobic (some species) ⓘ |
| reproduction |
asexual reproduction
ⓘ
binary fission ⓘ |
| ribosomalRNAType | distinct archaeal 16S rRNA sequences ⓘ |
| superphylum | TACK superphylum ⓘ |
| taxonRank | phylum ⓘ |
| temperatureRange | often above 70 °C for thermophilic species ⓘ |
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: Crenarchaeota Description of subject: Crenarchaeota is a major phylum of Archaea that includes many thermophilic and chemolithoautotrophic microorganisms commonly found in extreme environments such as hot springs and deep-sea hydrothermal vents.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Sulfolobales
this entity surface form:
Desulfurococcales
this entity surface form:
Thermoproteales
this entity surface form:
Acidilobales
this entity surface form:
Sulfolobus acidocaldarius
this entity surface form:
Desulfurococcales
this entity surface form:
Thermoproteaceae
this entity surface form:
Thermoproteales
this entity surface form:
Thermoprotei
this entity surface form:
Thermoproteota
this entity surface form:
Thermoproteota