Mycobacterium tuberculosis
E52537
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the pathogenic bacterial species that causes most cases of human tuberculosis, primarily affecting the lungs and spreading through airborne transmission.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mycobacterium tuberculosis canonical | 24 |
| Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv strain | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T414732 — 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: Mycobacterium tuberculosis Context triple: [Robert Koch, discovered, Mycobacterium tuberculosis]
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A.
Campylobacter
Campylobacter is a genus of bacteria that commonly causes foodborne gastrointestinal infections in humans, often associated with undercooked poultry.
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B.
Nourse
Nourse is a surname and variant spelling of "Nurse," historically associated with English-speaking families and occasionally used as a place or business name.
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C.
Phytophthora infestans
Phytophthora infestans is a plant-pathogenic oomycete best known for causing potato late blight, the disease responsible for the devastating 19th-century Irish Great Famine.
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D.
TMV
TMV is the stock ticker symbol under which TeamViewer, a global provider of remote connectivity and remote access software, is traded on financial markets.
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E.
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.
- 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: Mycobacterium tuberculosis Target entity description: Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the pathogenic bacterial species that causes most cases of human tuberculosis, primarily affecting the lungs and spreading through airborne transmission.
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A.
Campylobacter
Campylobacter is a genus of bacteria that commonly causes foodborne gastrointestinal infections in humans, often associated with undercooked poultry.
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B.
Nourse
Nourse is a surname and variant spelling of "Nurse," historically associated with English-speaking families and occasionally used as a place or business name.
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C.
Phytophthora infestans
Phytophthora infestans is a plant-pathogenic oomycete best known for causing potato late blight, the disease responsible for the devastating 19th-century Irish Great Famine.
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D.
TMV
TMV is the stock ticker symbol under which TeamViewer, a global provider of remote connectivity and remote access software, is traded on financial markets.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bacterial species
ⓘ
pathogenic bacterium ⓘ |
| antibioticResistanceIssue |
extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis
ⓘ
multidrug-resistant tuberculosis ⓘ |
| antibioticTreatment |
ethambutol
ⓘ
isoniazid ⓘ pyrazinamide ⓘ rifampicin ⓘ |
| biosafetyLevel | BSL-3 ⓘ |
| capsule | non-encapsulated ⓘ |
| cellWallComponent |
arabinogalactan
ⓘ
mycolic acids ⓘ peptidoglycan ⓘ |
| cultureMedium |
Lowenstein–Jensen medium
ⓘ
Middlebrook 7H10 agar ⓘ Middlebrook 7H9 broth ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | Robert Koch ⓘ |
| discoveryYear | 1882 ⓘ |
| diseaseInHumans |
extrapulmonary tuberculosis
ⓘ
pulmonary tuberculosis ⓘ |
| domain | Bacteria ⓘ |
| family |
Mycobacteriaceae
ⓘ
linked to:
Corynebacteriales
|
| GCContent | high GC content ⓘ |
| generationTime | approximately 18–24 hours ⓘ |
| genomeSize | approximately 4.4 megabases ⓘ |
| genomeType | circular double-stranded DNA ⓘ |
| genus | Mycobacterium ⓘ |
| gramStain | acid-fast ⓘ |
| growthRate | slow-growing ⓘ |
| host |
humans
ⓘ
other mammals ⓘ |
| immuneEvasionMechanism |
inhibition of phagosome–lysosome fusion
ⓘ
survival in macrophages ⓘ |
| metabolism | aerobic respiration ⓘ |
| motility | non-motile ⓘ |
| order | Corynebacteriales ⓘ |
| oxygenRequirement | obligate aerobe ⓘ |
| phylum | Actinobacteria ⓘ |
| primaryDisease | tuberculosis ⓘ |
| primaryTargetOrgan | lungs ⓘ |
| relatedDiseaseComplex | Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex ⓘ |
| shape | rod-shaped ⓘ |
| sporeFormation | non-spore-forming ⓘ |
| stainMethod |
Auramine–rhodamine stain
ⓘ
Ziehl–Neelsen stain ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| transmissionRoute |
aerosol inhalation
ⓘ
airborne droplets ⓘ |
| vaccineTarget | BCG vaccine ⓘ |
| virulenceFactor |
ESX-1 secretion system
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cell wall lipids ⓘ cord factor (trehalose dimycolate) ⓘ phthiocerol dimycocerosates ⓘ |
| zoonoticPotential | can infect animals ⓘ |
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: Mycobacterium tuberculosis Description of subject: Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the pathogenic bacterial species that causes most cases of human tuberculosis, primarily affecting the lungs and spreading through airborne transmission.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mycobacterium tuberculosis
subject linked to:
Kurt Jensen
subject linked to:
pyrazinamide