Purus River
E110709
The Purus River is a long, meandering river in western Brazil and eastern Peru that drains a vast area of Amazon rainforest and supports rich biodiversity and remote riverine communities.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Purus River canonical | 4 |
| Purus River basin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T790210 — 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: Purus River Context triple: [Amazon River, majorTributary, Purus River]
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A.
Bhima River
The Bhima River is a significant river in southern India that flows through Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Telangana, supporting extensive agriculture and numerous settlements along its course.
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B.
Indravati
Indravati is a significant river in central India that flows through states like Chhattisgarh and Odisha before joining the Godavari River.
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C.
Kistna River
The Kistna River, more commonly known as the Krishna River, is a major river in southern India that flows through the states of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh before emptying into the Bay of Bengal.
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D.
Sarayu
Sarayu is a significant river in northern India, traditionally associated with the ancient city of Ayodhya and revered in Hindu mythology.
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E.
Ghataprabha River
The Ghataprabha River is a significant river in southern India that flows through Karnataka and Maharashtra, supporting irrigation, agriculture, and hydroelectric projects before joining the Krishna River.
- 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: Purus River Target entity description: The Purus River is a long, meandering river in western Brazil and eastern Peru that drains a vast area of Amazon rainforest and supports rich biodiversity and remote riverine communities.
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A.
Bhima River
The Bhima River is a significant river in southern India that flows through Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Telangana, supporting extensive agriculture and numerous settlements along its course.
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B.
Indravati
Indravati is a significant river in central India that flows through states like Chhattisgarh and Odisha before joining the Godavari River.
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C.
Kistna River
The Kistna River, more commonly known as the Krishna River, is a major river in southern India that flows through the states of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh before emptying into the Bay of Bengal.
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D.
Sarayu
Sarayu is a significant river in northern India, traditionally associated with the ancient city of Ayodhya and revered in Hindu mythology.
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E.
Ghataprabha River
The Ghataprabha River is a significant river in southern India that flows through Karnataka and Maharashtra, supporting irrigation, agriculture, and hydroelectric projects before joining the Krishna River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Purus River Description of subject: The Purus River is a long, meandering river in western Brazil and eastern Peru that drains a vast area of Amazon rainforest and supports rich biodiversity and remote riverine communities.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Purus River