Coxiella
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Coxiella is a genus of intracellular, Gram-negative bacteria best known for including Coxiella burnetii, the causative agent of Q fever in humans and animals.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Coxiella burnetii | 5 |
| Coxiella canonical | 2 |
| Candidatus Coxiellopsis | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11515283 — 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: Coxiella Context triple: [Gammaproteobacteria, includesGenus, Coxiella]
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A.
Francisella tularensis
Francisella tularensis is a highly infectious, gram-negative bacterium that causes tularemia and is considered a serious potential bioterrorism agent.
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B.
Yersinia pestis
Yersinia pestis is a highly virulent bacterium responsible for plague, including the historic pandemics of bubonic, septicemic, and pneumonic forms.
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C.
Rhodococcus
Rhodococcus is a genus of Gram-positive, often soil-dwelling bacteria known for their ability to degrade a wide range of organic compounds, including environmental pollutants.
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D.
Yersinia
Yersinia is a genus of Gram-negative bacteria that includes several pathogenic species, most notably Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague.
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E.
Bacillus anthracis
Bacillus anthracis is a Gram-positive, spore-forming bacterium that causes the disease anthrax in humans and animals.
- 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: Coxiella Target entity description: Coxiella is a genus of intracellular, Gram-negative bacteria best known for including Coxiella burnetii, the causative agent of Q fever in humans and animals.
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A.
Francisella tularensis
Francisella tularensis is a highly infectious, gram-negative bacterium that causes tularemia and is considered a serious potential bioterrorism agent.
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B.
Yersinia pestis
Yersinia pestis is a highly virulent bacterium responsible for plague, including the historic pandemics of bubonic, septicemic, and pneumonic forms.
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C.
Rhodococcus
Rhodococcus is a genus of Gram-positive, often soil-dwelling bacteria known for their ability to degrade a wide range of organic compounds, including environmental pollutants.
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D.
Yersinia
Yersinia is a genus of Gram-negative bacteria that includes several pathogenic species, most notably Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague.
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E.
Bacillus anthracis
Bacillus anthracis is a Gram-positive, spore-forming bacterium that causes the disease anthrax in humans and animals.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | bacterial genus ⓘ |
| belongsToDomain | Bacteria ⓘ |
| biosafetyConcern | laboratory-acquired infections risk ⓘ |
| biosafetyLevelForCoxiellaBurnetii | BSL-3 ⓘ |
| biosurveillanceRelevance | potential biothreat agent ⓘ |
| cellularOrganization | prokaryote ⓘ |
| cellWallStructure | lipopolysaccharide-containing outer membrane ⓘ |
| class | Gammaproteobacteria ⓘ |
| clinicalSignificance | cause of Q fever outbreaks ⓘ |
| diagnosticMethodForSpecies |
PCR
ⓘ
culture in cell lines ⓘ serology ⓘ |
| diseaseCausedBySpecies | Q fever ⓘ |
| environmentalResistance | high resistance to environmental stress ⓘ |
| family | Coxiellaceae ⓘ |
| genomeType | circular double-stranded DNA ⓘ |
| gramStain | Gram-negative ⓘ |
| hostRange |
domestic animals
ⓘ
humans ⓘ wild animals ⓘ |
| intracellularLifestyle | obligate intracellular pathogen ⓘ |
| intracellularLocation | phagolysosome-like vacuoles ⓘ |
| kingdom | Bacteria ⓘ |
| largeCellForm | large cell variant ⓘ |
| metabolism | obligate intracellular ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Herald Rea Cox ⓘ |
| notableSpecies |
Coxiella burnetii
ⓘ
linked to:
Coxiella
|
| order | Legionellales ⓘ |
| oxygenRequirement | aerobic ⓘ |
| pathogenicity |
pathogenic to animals
ⓘ
pathogenic to humans ⓘ |
| phylum | Pseudomonadota ⓘ |
| primaryReservoir |
cattle
ⓘ
goats ⓘ sheep ⓘ |
| reproduction | binary fission ⓘ |
| shape | pleomorphic coccobacillus ⓘ |
| sporeLikeForm | small cell variant ⓘ |
| stainingCharacteristic | Giemsa-positive ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| transmissionRoute |
aerosolized particles
ⓘ
inhalation of contaminated dust ⓘ |
| typeSpecies |
Coxiella burnetii
ⓘ
linked to:
Coxiella
|
| vectorOrReservoir | ticks ⓘ |
| zoonosis | yes ⓘ |
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: Coxiella Description of subject: Coxiella is a genus of intracellular, Gram-negative bacteria best known for including Coxiella burnetii, the causative agent of Q fever in humans and animals.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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