Erysipelotrichales
E928391
Erysipelotrichales is an order of Gram-positive bacteria within the phylum Firmicutes, commonly found in the gastrointestinal tracts of animals and humans.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Erysipelotrichales canonical | 1 |
| Erysipelotrichia | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11466939 — 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: Erysipelotrichales Context triple: [Firmicutes, contains, Erysipelotrichales]
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A.
Corynebacteriales
Corynebacteriales is an order of Gram-positive bacteria that includes medically important genera such as Mycobacterium and Corynebacterium, some of which cause serious human diseases.
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B.
Lactobacillales
Lactobacillales is an order of Gram-positive lactic acid bacteria that includes many species important in food fermentation, probiotics, and the normal microbiota of humans and animals.
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C.
Firmicutes
Firmicutes is a major phylum of mostly Gram-positive bacteria that includes many medically and environmentally important genera, such as Bacillus and Clostridium.
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D.
Flammispiraceae
Flammispiraceae is a family of fungi within the order Pisorisporiales, comprising filamentous ascomycetes typically found in aquatic or damp terrestrial habitats.
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E.
Bacillales
Bacillales is an order of Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacteria that includes medically and environmentally important genera such as Bacillus and Staphylococcus.
- 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: Erysipelotrichales Target entity description: Erysipelotrichales is an order of Gram-positive bacteria within the phylum Firmicutes, commonly found in the gastrointestinal tracts of animals and humans.
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A.
Corynebacteriales
Corynebacteriales is an order of Gram-positive bacteria that includes medically important genera such as Mycobacterium and Corynebacterium, some of which cause serious human diseases.
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B.
Lactobacillales
Lactobacillales is an order of Gram-positive lactic acid bacteria that includes many species important in food fermentation, probiotics, and the normal microbiota of humans and animals.
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C.
Firmicutes
Firmicutes is a major phylum of mostly Gram-positive bacteria that includes many medically and environmentally important genera, such as Bacillus and Clostridium.
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D.
Flammispiraceae
Flammispiraceae is a family of fungi within the order Pisorisporiales, comprising filamentous ascomycetes typically found in aquatic or damp terrestrial habitats.
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E.
Bacillales
Bacillales is an order of Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacteria that includes medically and environmentally important genera such as Bacillus and Staphylococcus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | bacterial order ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
host lipid metabolism modulation
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immune system modulation in the gut ⓘ inflammatory bowel disease ⓘ metabolic disorders in humans ⓘ obesity in animal models ⓘ |
| belongsTo | class Erysipelotrichia ⓘ |
| belongsToGroup | gut microbiota ⓘ |
| cellArrangement |
short chains
ⓘ
single cells ⓘ |
| cellEnvelope | lacks outer membrane ⓘ |
| cellShape |
filamentous
ⓘ
rod-shaped ⓘ |
| cellWallType | thick peptidoglycan layer ⓘ |
| class |
Erysipelotrichia
ⓘ
linked to:
Erysipelotrichales
|
| containsFamily | Erysipelotrichaceae ⓘ |
| containsGenus |
Catenibacterium
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Erysipelothrix ⓘ Holdemanella ⓘ Turicibacter ⓘ |
| domain | Bacteria ⓘ |
| firstDescribedBy | David Hendricks Bergey and colleagues ⓘ |
| firstDescriptionYear | 1953 ⓘ |
| foundIn |
human fecal microbiota
ⓘ
mouse gut microbiota ⓘ pig gut microbiota ⓘ |
| genomeType | circular double-stranded DNA ⓘ |
| gramStain | Gram-positive ⓘ |
| habitat |
gastrointestinal tract of animals
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gastrointestinal tract of humans ⓘ mammalian gut microbiota ⓘ |
| hasTypeFamily | Erysipelotrichaceae ⓘ |
| isPartOf | phylum Bacillota (sensu lato) ⓘ |
| kingdom | Bacteria ⓘ |
| metabolism | fermentative ⓘ |
| motility | non-motile ⓘ |
| ncbiTaxonId | 909932 ⓘ |
| oxygenRequirement |
facultatively anaerobic
ⓘ
obligately anaerobic ⓘ |
| phylum | Firmicutes ⓘ |
| reclassifiedFrom | class Clostridia ⓘ |
| reproduction | binary fission ⓘ |
| roleInEcosystem | fermentation of dietary components in the gut ⓘ |
| sporeFormation | non-spore-forming ⓘ |
| taxonRank | order ⓘ |
| temperaturePreference | mesophilic ⓘ |
| typeSpeciesGenus | Erysipelothrix ⓘ |
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: Erysipelotrichales Description of subject: Erysipelotrichales is an order of Gram-positive bacteria within the phylum Firmicutes, commonly found in the gastrointestinal tracts of animals and humans.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Erysipelotrichales