Filasterea
E737416
Filasterea is a small group of unicellular, flagellated eukaryotes closely related to animals and fungi, providing key insights into the early evolution of multicellularity within Opisthokonta.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Filasterea canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8479227 — 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: Filasterea Context triple: [Opisthokonta, includes, Filasterea]
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A.
Calamonastes
Calamonastes is a small genus of African warbler-like birds known for their inconspicuous plumage and preference for dry, scrubby habitats.
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B.
Phylica
Phylica is a genus of flowering shrubs and small trees, many of which are native to South Africa and known for their dense foliage and adaptation to fynbos habitats.
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C.
Picrasma
Picrasma is a small genus of tropical and subtropical trees and shrubs known for their bitter compounds and use in traditional medicine.
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D.
Vepris
Vepris is a genus of flowering plants in the citrus family Rutaceae, comprising mostly trees and shrubs native to tropical Africa and nearby regions.
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E.
Grosmannia
Grosmannia is a genus of ascomycete fungi, many of which are important tree pathogens often associated with bark beetles and blue-stain of conifer wood.
- 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: Filasterea Target entity description: Filasterea is a small group of unicellular, flagellated eukaryotes closely related to animals and fungi, providing key insights into the early evolution of multicellularity within Opisthokonta.
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A.
Calamonastes
Calamonastes is a small genus of African warbler-like birds known for their inconspicuous plumage and preference for dry, scrubby habitats.
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B.
Phylica
Phylica is a genus of flowering shrubs and small trees, many of which are native to South Africa and known for their dense foliage and adaptation to fynbos habitats.
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C.
Picrasma
Picrasma is a small genus of tropical and subtropical trees and shrubs known for their bitter compounds and use in traditional medicine.
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D.
Vepris
Vepris is a genus of flowering plants in the citrus family Rutaceae, comprising mostly trees and shrubs native to tropical Africa and nearby regions.
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E.
Grosmannia
Grosmannia is a genus of ascomycete fungi, many of which are important tree pathogens often associated with bark beetles and blue-stain of conifer wood.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
group of eukaryotes
ⓘ
taxonomic clade ⓘ |
| cellMorphology | amoeboid with filose projections in many species ⓘ |
| cellularity | unicellular ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Choanoflagellatea
ⓘ
linked to:
Choanoflagellata
Fungi ⓘ Metazoa ⓘ |
| contains |
Capsaspora owczarzaki
ⓘ
Ministeria vibrans ⓘ Pigoraptor chileana ⓘ Pigoraptor vietnamica ⓘ |
| discoveredIn | late 20th century ⓘ |
| domain |
Eukaryota
ⓘ
linked to:
Eukarya
|
| ecologicalRole |
free-living protists
ⓘ
microeukaryotic predators ⓘ |
| feedingMode | phagotrophy ⓘ |
| genomeType | linear DNA ⓘ |
| habitat |
freshwater environments
ⓘ
marine environments ⓘ symbiotic environments ⓘ |
| has |
cell adhesion protein homologs
ⓘ
complex life cycles in some species ⓘ filopodia ⓘ genes homologous to animal developmental genes ⓘ single flagellum in many species ⓘ tyrosine kinase signaling components ⓘ |
| higherClassification | Opisthokonta ⓘ |
| includes | environmental lineages known only from rDNA sequences ⓘ |
| isA |
flagellated protist group
ⓘ
opisthokont clade ⓘ unicellular organism group ⓘ |
| kingdom | Opisthokonta ⓘ |
| motility | flagellated ⓘ |
| nuclearOrganization | nucleated ⓘ |
| partOf | Holozoa ⓘ |
| phylogeneticPosition | basal holozoan lineage ⓘ |
| recognizedAsDistinctClade | early 21st century ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Choanoflagellatea
ⓘ
linked to:
Choanoflagellata
Ichthyosporea ⓘ |
| relevance | model for unicellular stages of animal ancestors ⓘ |
| reproduction | asexual reproduction ⓘ |
| sisterGroupOf |
Choanoflagellatea
ⓘ
linked to:
Choanoflagellata
|
| studiedFor |
cell adhesion evolution
ⓘ
cell signaling evolution ⓘ early evolution of animals ⓘ origin of multicellularity ⓘ |
| supergroup |
Unikonta
ⓘ
linked to:
Opisthokonta
|
| taxonomicRank | class ⓘ |
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: Filasterea Description of subject: Filasterea is a small group of unicellular, flagellated eukaryotes closely related to animals and fungi, providing key insights into the early evolution of multicellularity within Opisthokonta.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.