Little Stour
E237191
Little Stour is a small river in Kent, England, that forms part of the River Stour system and flows through rural countryside and villages in the region.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Little Stour canonical | 3 |
| Little Stour (local branch of River Stour system) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2137069 — 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: Little Stour Context triple: [River Stour (Kent), tributary, Little Stour]
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A.
Hogsmill River
The Hogsmill River is a tributary of the River Thames in southwest London and Surrey, known for its chalk stream character and association with the painter John Everett Millais.
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B.
River Spodden
River Spodden is a river in Lancashire and Greater Manchester, England, flowing through the South Pennines and the town of Bacup before joining the River Roch.
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C.
Hawkes Brook
Hawkes Brook is a small stream in Massachusetts that serves as a tributary to the Saugus River within its watershed.
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D.
Island End River
Island End River is a small tidal river in the Boston-area of Massachusetts that serves as an industrial waterway and tributary within the Mystic River system.
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E.
Pearl Brook
Pearl Brook is a small watercourse in Horwich, Greater Manchester, that forms part of the town’s local river network.
- 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: Little Stour Target entity description: Little Stour is a small river in Kent, England, that forms part of the River Stour system and flows through rural countryside and villages in the region.
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A.
Hogsmill River
The Hogsmill River is a tributary of the River Thames in southwest London and Surrey, known for its chalk stream character and association with the painter John Everett Millais.
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B.
River Spodden
River Spodden is a river in Lancashire and Greater Manchester, England, flowing through the South Pennines and the town of Bacup before joining the River Roch.
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C.
Hawkes Brook
Hawkes Brook is a small stream in Massachusetts that serves as a tributary to the Saugus River within its watershed.
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D.
Island End River
Island End River is a small tidal river in the Boston-area of Massachusetts that serves as an industrial waterway and tributary within the Mystic River system.
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E.
Pearl Brook
Pearl Brook is a small watercourse in Horwich, Greater Manchester, that forms part of the town’s local river network.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
river
ⓘ
tributary ⓘ |
| basinCountry | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| country | England ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
rural countryside in Kent
ⓘ
villages in Kent ⓘ |
| hasName | Little Stour ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Kent
ⓘ
South East England ⓘ |
| mouthOfWaterBody | Great Stour ⓘ |
| partOf |
River Stour system
ⓘ
linked to:
River Stour
|
| tributaryOf | Great Stour ⓘ |
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: Little Stour Description of subject: Little Stour is a small river in Kent, England, that forms part of the River Stour system and flows through rural countryside and villages in the region.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.