Paranaíba River
E134470
The Paranaíba River is a major river in central Brazil that forms part of the upper Paraná River basin and serves as an important waterway for agriculture, hydroelectric power, and regional ecosystems.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paranaíba River canonical | 2 |
| Rio Grande (Brazil) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T822883 — 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: Paranaíba River Context triple: [Paraná River, sourceConfluence, Paranaíba River]
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A.
Gilão River
The Gilão River is a waterway in Portugal’s Algarve region that flows through the historic town of Tavira before reaching the Atlantic Ocean.
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B.
Tapajós River
The Tapajós River is a large clearwater river in northern Brazil that flows through the Amazon rainforest and is one of the Amazon River’s most significant tributaries.
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C.
Xingu River
The Xingu River is a major river in northern Brazil that flows through the Amazon rainforest, supporting rich biodiversity and numerous Indigenous communities before joining the Amazon River.
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D.
Carioca River
The Carioca River is a small urban waterway in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, historically important as a source of fresh water for the city and now known for running through the Tijuca Forest and into Guanabara Bay.
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E.
Madeira River
The Madeira River is one of the largest and most significant rivers in South America, flowing through Bolivia and Brazil and playing a key role in the Amazon Basin’s ecology, transport, and hydroelectric power generation.
- 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: Paranaíba River Target entity description: The Paranaíba River is a major river in central Brazil that forms part of the upper Paraná River basin and serves as an important waterway for agriculture, hydroelectric power, and regional ecosystems.
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A.
Gilão River
The Gilão River is a waterway in Portugal’s Algarve region that flows through the historic town of Tavira before reaching the Atlantic Ocean.
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B.
Tapajós River
The Tapajós River is a large clearwater river in northern Brazil that flows through the Amazon rainforest and is one of the Amazon River’s most significant tributaries.
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C.
Xingu River
The Xingu River is a major river in northern Brazil that flows through the Amazon rainforest, supporting rich biodiversity and numerous Indigenous communities before joining the Amazon River.
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D.
Carioca River
The Carioca River is a small urban waterway in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, historically important as a source of fresh water for the city and now known for running through the Tijuca Forest and into Guanabara Bay.
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E.
Madeira River
The Madeira River is one of the largest and most significant rivers in South America, flowing through Bolivia and Brazil and playing a key role in the Amazon Basin’s ecology, transport, and hydroelectric power generation.
- 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: Paranaíba River Description of subject: The Paranaíba River is a major river in central Brazil that forms part of the upper Paraná River basin and serves as an important waterway for agriculture, hydroelectric power, and regional ecosystems.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Paranaíba River