Irtysh River
E180119
The Irtysh River is a major river in Central Asia and Western Siberia that flows through China, Kazakhstan, and Russia before joining the Ob River.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Irtysh River canonical | 23 |
| Irtysh River basin | 4 |
| Irtysh basin | 1 |
| Ob–Irtysh river system | 1 |
| 额尔齐斯河 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1104297 — 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: Irtysh River Context triple: [Altai Mountains, riverSourceOf, Irtysh River]
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A.
Terek River
The Terek River is a major river in the North Caucasus that flows through Georgia and Russia before emptying into the Caspian Sea.
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B.
Yenisei River
The Yenisei River is one of the longest rivers in Asia, flowing northward through Siberia to the Arctic Ocean and forming a major part of the central Eurasian river system.
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C.
Vilyuy River
The Vilyuy River is a major tributary of the Lena River in eastern Siberia, flowing through the Sakha Republic and known for its remote taiga landscapes and nearby diamond-mining regions.
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D.
Zeya River
The Zeya River is a significant river in Russia’s Far East that flows through Amur Oblast and supports regional hydropower, navigation, and agriculture before joining the Amur River.
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E.
Olyokma River
The Olyokma River is a major river in eastern Siberia, Russia, known for its remote, sparsely populated basin and its role in draining the mountainous regions before joining the Lena 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: Irtysh River Target entity description: The Irtysh River is a major river in Central Asia and Western Siberia that flows through China, Kazakhstan, and Russia before joining the Ob River.
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A.
Terek River
The Terek River is a major river in the North Caucasus that flows through Georgia and Russia before emptying into the Caspian Sea.
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B.
Yenisei River
The Yenisei River is one of the longest rivers in Asia, flowing northward through Siberia to the Arctic Ocean and forming a major part of the central Eurasian river system.
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C.
Vilyuy River
The Vilyuy River is a major tributary of the Lena River in eastern Siberia, flowing through the Sakha Republic and known for its remote taiga landscapes and nearby diamond-mining regions.
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D.
Zeya River
The Zeya River is a significant river in Russia’s Far East that flows through Amur Oblast and supports regional hydropower, navigation, and agriculture before joining the Amur River.
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E.
Olyokma River
The Olyokma River is a major river in eastern Siberia, Russia, known for its remote, sparsely populated basin and its role in draining the mountainous regions before joining the Lena River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Irtysh River Description of subject: The Irtysh River is a major river in Central Asia and Western Siberia that flows through China, Kazakhstan, and Russia before joining the Ob River.
Referenced by (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Tobolsk, Siberia
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