Yobe River
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The Yobe River is a major West African river that flows through Nigeria and Niger, forming part of their border and supporting agriculture and communities in the semi-arid Sahel region.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yobe River canonical | 5 |
| Komadougou Yobe River | 2 |
| Komadugu Yobe River | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3270003 — 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: Yobe River Context triple: [Borno State, hasRiver, Yobe River]
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A.
Katsina Ala River
The Katsina Ala River is a significant waterway in Nigeria that flows through Benue State and supports local agriculture, fishing, and transportation before joining the Benue River.
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B.
Kaduna River
The Kaduna River is a major tributary of the Niger River in central Nigeria, flowing through Kaduna State and serving as an important water source for agriculture, fishing, and local communities.
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C.
Sokoto River
The Sokoto River is a significant waterway in northwestern Nigeria that drains a large part of the region’s savanna and supports agriculture, fishing, and local transport before joining the Niger River.
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D.
Kainji River
Kainji River is a significant waterway in western Africa known for the Kainji Dam and its role in hydroelectric power generation and navigation.
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E.
Aba River
The Aba River is a waterway in southeastern Nigeria that flows through the city of Aba and serves as an important local natural and economic resource.
- 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: Yobe River Target entity description: The Yobe River is a major West African river that flows through Nigeria and Niger, forming part of their border and supporting agriculture and communities in the semi-arid Sahel region.
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A.
Katsina Ala River
The Katsina Ala River is a significant waterway in Nigeria that flows through Benue State and supports local agriculture, fishing, and transportation before joining the Benue River.
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B.
Kaduna River
The Kaduna River is a major tributary of the Niger River in central Nigeria, flowing through Kaduna State and serving as an important water source for agriculture, fishing, and local communities.
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C.
Sokoto River
The Sokoto River is a significant waterway in northwestern Nigeria that drains a large part of the region’s savanna and supports agriculture, fishing, and local transport before joining the Niger River.
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D.
Kainji River
Kainji River is a significant waterway in western Africa known for the Kainji Dam and its role in hydroelectric power generation and navigation.
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E.
Aba River
The Aba River is a waterway in southeastern Nigeria that flows through the city of Aba and serves as an important local natural and economic resource.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | river ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Komadugu Yobe
ⓘ
linked to:
Komadougou Yobe
|
| borderSectionBetween |
Diffa Region, Niger
ⓘ
Yobe State, Nigeria ⓘ
linked to:
Yobe State
|
| climateZone | semi-arid ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country |
Niger
ⓘ
Nigeria ⓘ |
| economicActivity |
flood-recession agriculture
ⓘ
inland fisheries ⓘ |
| emptiesInto | Lake Chad ⓘ |
| environmentalIssue |
desertification pressure
ⓘ
reduced inflow to Lake Chad ⓘ seasonal flow variability ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
Niger
ⓘ
Nigeria ⓘ |
| formsBorderBetween |
Niger
ⓘ
Nigeria ⓘ |
| hasFloodplain |
Hadejia–Nguru wetlands
ⓘ
linked to:
Hadejia-Nguru wetlands area
|
| hasSeason |
dry season low flow
ⓘ
rainy season high flow ⓘ |
| hasTributary |
Hadejia River
ⓘ
linked to:
Hadejia
Komadugu Gana River ⓘ
linked to:
Ngadda River
Komadugu Yobe system ⓘ
linked to:
Komadougou Yobe
|
| hydrologicalBasin | Lake Chad hydrological basin ⓘ |
| importantFor |
regional food security
ⓘ
smallholder farming ⓘ wetland biodiversity ⓘ |
| locatedIn | West Africa ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
Sahel
ⓘ
northeastern Nigeria ⓘ semi-arid zone ⓘ southeastern Niger ⓘ |
| locatedInState |
Borno State
ⓘ
Jigawa State ⓘ Yobe State ⓘ |
| partOf |
Lake Chad Basin
ⓘ
linked to:
Lake Chad basin
|
| riverSystem |
Hadejia–Jama’are–Komadugu–Yobe system
ⓘ
linked to:
Komadougou Yobe
|
| supports |
agriculture
ⓘ
fishing ⓘ irrigation ⓘ local communities ⓘ |
| usedFor |
domestic water supply
ⓘ
livestock watering ⓘ |
| waterSource |
rain-fed flows
ⓘ
tributary inflows from northern Nigeria ⓘ |
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: Yobe River Description of subject: The Yobe River is a major West African river that flows through Nigeria and Niger, forming part of their border and supporting agriculture and communities in the semi-arid Sahel region.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Yobe River
linked to: Yobe River