Hydaspes River
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The Hydaspes River, now known as the Jhelum River in modern Pakistan, is historically renowned as the site of Alexander the Great’s famous battle against King Porus in 326 BCE.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hydaspes River canonical | 6 |
| Hydaspes | 3 |
| Hydaspes–Acesines–Hydraotes river system | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3507869 — 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: Hydaspes River Context triple: [Indian campaign, hasLocation, Hydaspes River]
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A.
Orontes River
The Orontes River is a major river in the Eastern Mediterranean that flows through Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey, historically supporting important cities and civilizations along its banks.
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B.
Iskar River
The Iskar River is a significant river in Bulgaria that flows south through Sofia before turning north to cut a dramatic gorge through the Balkan Mountains on its way to the Danube.
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C.
Isonzo River
The Isonzo River is a watercourse in northeastern Italy and western Slovenia, historically known as a major World War I battlefield along the Italian Front.
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D.
Aliakmonas River
The Aliakmonas River is the longest river entirely within Greece, flowing through the region of Macedonia before emptying into the Aegean Sea.
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E.
Spercheios River
The Spercheios River is a significant river in central Greece that flows through the region of Phthiotis before emptying into the Malian Gulf near the historic pass of Thermopylae.
- 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: Hydaspes River Target entity description: The Hydaspes River, now known as the Jhelum River in modern Pakistan, is historically renowned as the site of Alexander the Great’s famous battle against King Porus in 326 BCE.
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A.
Orontes River
The Orontes River is a major river in the Eastern Mediterranean that flows through Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey, historically supporting important cities and civilizations along its banks.
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B.
Iskar River
The Iskar River is a significant river in Bulgaria that flows south through Sofia before turning north to cut a dramatic gorge through the Balkan Mountains on its way to the Danube.
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C.
Isonzo River
The Isonzo River is a watercourse in northeastern Italy and western Slovenia, historically known as a major World War I battlefield along the Italian Front.
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D.
Aliakmonas River
The Aliakmonas River is the longest river entirely within Greece, flowing through the region of Macedonia before emptying into the Aegean Sea.
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E.
Spercheios River
The Spercheios River is a significant river in central Greece that flows through the region of Phthiotis before emptying into the Malian Gulf near the historic pass of Thermopylae.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Hydaspes River Description of subject: The Hydaspes River, now known as the Jhelum River in modern Pakistan, is historically renowned as the site of Alexander the Great’s famous battle against King Porus in 326 BCE.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Hydaspes River