Yalu River
E142728
The Yalu River is a major East Asian river that forms much of the border between North Korea and China and has long held strategic and historical significance in the region.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yalu River canonical | 34 |
| Yalu River basin | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T959948 — 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: Yalu River Context triple: [Korean Peninsula, hasMajorRiver, Yalu River]
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A.
Xin’an River
The Xin’an River is a major river in eastern China known for its scenic landscapes and as an important tributary contributing to the Qiantang River system.
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B.
Argun River
The Argun River is a major river in Northeast Asia that forms part of the border between Russia and China and serves as one of the headwaters of the Amur River.
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C.
Songhua River
The Songhua River is a major river in northeastern China that flows through Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces and plays a key role in regional transportation, agriculture, and hydropower.
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D.
Heilong Jiang
Heilong Jiang is a major river in Northeast Asia that forms part of the border between China and Russia and is known internationally as the Amur River.
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E.
Chu River
The Chu River is a major river in Central Asia that flows through Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, playing an important role in regional agriculture and water supply.
- 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: Yalu River Target entity description: The Yalu River is a major East Asian river that forms much of the border between North Korea and China and has long held strategic and historical significance in the region.
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A.
Xin’an River
The Xin’an River is a major river in eastern China known for its scenic landscapes and as an important tributary contributing to the Qiantang River system.
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B.
Argun River
The Argun River is a major river in Northeast Asia that forms part of the border between Russia and China and serves as one of the headwaters of the Amur River.
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C.
Songhua River
The Songhua River is a major river in northeastern China that flows through Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces and plays a key role in regional transportation, agriculture, and hydropower.
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D.
Heilong Jiang
Heilong Jiang is a major river in Northeast Asia that forms part of the border between China and Russia and is known internationally as the Amur River.
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E.
Chu River
The Chu River is a major river in Central Asia that flows through Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, playing an important role in regional agriculture and water supply.
- 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: Yalu River Description of subject: The Yalu River is a major East Asian river that forms much of the border between North Korea and China and has long held strategic and historical significance in the region.
Referenced by (38)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Sinuiju, Korea
subject linked to:
Sinuiju, Korea
subject linked to:
Ryanggang Province, North Korea
linked to: Yalu River
linked to: Yalu River