Holozoa
E737418
Holozoa is a major clade of opisthokont eukaryotes that includes animals and their closest unicellular relatives, such as choanoflagellates and filastereans.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Holozoa canonical | 5 |
| Holozoa (in some classifications) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8479238 — 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: Holozoa Context triple: [Opisthokonta, containsClade, Holozoa]
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A.
Placozoa
Placozoa is a phylum of simple, flat, millimeter-sized marine animals with only a few distinct cell types and no true tissues or organs, considered among the most basal and primitive of all multicellular animals.
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B.
Metazoa
Metazoa is the broad animal kingdom encompassing all multicellular, heterotrophic organisms with differentiated tissues and complex body plans.
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C.
Entoprocta
Entoprocta is a small phylum of mostly marine, sessile, filter-feeding invertebrates that superficially resemble bryozoans but are distinguished by their crown of tentacles surrounding both mouth and anus.
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D.
Excavata
Excavata is a major supergroup of unicellular eukaryotes characterized by a ventral feeding groove and often modified mitochondria, including many free-living flagellates and important parasites.
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E.
Nephrozoa
Nephrozoa is a major clade of bilaterian animals characterized by the presence of true kidneys or kidney-like excretory organs and includes most animal phyla except sponges, cnidarians, and a few other early-branching groups.
- 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: Holozoa Target entity description: Holozoa is a major clade of opisthokont eukaryotes that includes animals and their closest unicellular relatives, such as choanoflagellates and filastereans.
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A.
Placozoa
Placozoa is a phylum of simple, flat, millimeter-sized marine animals with only a few distinct cell types and no true tissues or organs, considered among the most basal and primitive of all multicellular animals.
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B.
Metazoa
Metazoa is the broad animal kingdom encompassing all multicellular, heterotrophic organisms with differentiated tissues and complex body plans.
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C.
Entoprocta
Entoprocta is a small phylum of mostly marine, sessile, filter-feeding invertebrates that superficially resemble bryozoans but are distinguished by their crown of tentacles surrounding both mouth and anus.
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D.
Excavata
Excavata is a major supergroup of unicellular eukaryotes characterized by a ventral feeding groove and often modified mitochondria, including many free-living flagellates and important parasites.
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E.
Nephrozoa
Nephrozoa is a major clade of bilaterian animals characterized by the presence of true kidneys or kidney-like excretory organs and includes most animal phyla except sponges, cnidarians, and a few other early-branching groups.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
clade
ⓘ
opisthokont clade ⓘ |
| belongsToDomain |
Eukaryota
ⓘ
linked to:
Eukarya
|
| belongsToSupergroup | Opisthokonta ⓘ |
| characterizedBy | posterior flagellum in ancestral state ⓘ |
| closestUnicellularRelativesOf | animals ⓘ |
| containsColonialLineages | true ⓘ |
| containsMulticellularLineages | true ⓘ |
| containsUnicellularLineages | true ⓘ |
| evolutionarySignificance | includes lineages that predate animal multicellularity ⓘ |
| excludesTaxon |
Fungi
ⓘ
Nucleariida ⓘ |
| hasCommonName | holozoans ⓘ |
| hasGenomicStudies | extensive ⓘ |
| hasMember |
animals
ⓘ
choanoflagellates ⓘ corallochytreans ⓘ filastereans ⓘ ichthyosporeans ⓘ
linked to:
Ichthyosporea
|
| hasMorphologicalDiversity | high ⓘ |
| includesTaxon |
Animalia
ⓘ
Choanoflagellata ⓘ Corallochytrea ⓘ Filasterea ⓘ Ichthyosporea ⓘ Metazoa ⓘ |
| partOf |
Eukaryota
ⓘ
linked to:
Eukarya
Opisthokonta ⓘ |
| phylogeneticDefinition | clade including animals and all organisms more closely related to animals than to fungi ⓘ |
| relevance | key to understanding origin of animals ⓘ |
| sisterClade | Holomycota ⓘ |
| studiedInField |
evolutionary biology
ⓘ
phylogenetics ⓘ protistology ⓘ |
| taxonomicRank | clade ⓘ |
| usedToInfer |
evolution of animal adhesion mechanisms
ⓘ
evolution of animal signaling pathways ⓘ origin of animal cell types ⓘ |
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: Holozoa Description of subject: Holozoa is a major clade of opisthokont eukaryotes that includes animals and their closest unicellular relatives, such as choanoflagellates and filastereans.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Holozoa