Río Meta (Spanish)
E363754
Río Meta is a major river in Colombia and Venezuela that serves as an important tributary of the Orinoco River and a key waterway for transport and regional ecosystems.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Río Meta (Spanish) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3492242 — 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: Río Meta (Spanish) Context triple: [Meta River, hasNameInLanguage, Río Meta (Spanish)]
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A.
Soacha River
The Soacha River is a watercourse in central Colombia that flows through the municipality of Soacha near Bogotá, contributing to the region’s drainage and local ecosystem.
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B.
Babahoyo River
The Babahoyo River is a major waterway in western Ecuador that flows through agricultural regions and urban centers before helping form the Guayas River system.
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C.
Bogotá River
The Bogotá River is a major waterway in central Colombia that flows through the Bogotá savanna and the capital city of Bogotá before joining the Magdalena River.
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D.
Chicamocha River
The Chicamocha River is a major river in northeastern Colombia known for carving the dramatic Chicamocha Canyon, one of the country’s most significant natural landmarks.
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E.
Cocal River
The Cocal River is a waterway associated with the area of Dorado, likely serving as a local natural feature important to the region’s landscape and ecology.
- 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: Río Meta (Spanish) Target entity description: Río Meta is a major river in Colombia and Venezuela that serves as an important tributary of the Orinoco River and a key waterway for transport and regional ecosystems.
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A.
Soacha River
The Soacha River is a watercourse in central Colombia that flows through the municipality of Soacha near Bogotá, contributing to the region’s drainage and local ecosystem.
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B.
Babahoyo River
The Babahoyo River is a major waterway in western Ecuador that flows through agricultural regions and urban centers before helping form the Guayas River system.
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C.
Bogotá River
The Bogotá River is a major waterway in central Colombia that flows through the Bogotá savanna and the capital city of Bogotá before joining the Magdalena River.
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D.
Chicamocha River
The Chicamocha River is a major river in northeastern Colombia known for carving the dramatic Chicamocha Canyon, one of the country’s most significant natural landmarks.
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E.
Cocal River
The Cocal River is a waterway associated with the area of Dorado, likely serving as a local natural feature important to the region’s landscape and ecology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
international river of South America
ⓘ
river ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
Colombia
ⓘ
Venezuela ⓘ |
| border |
Colombia
ⓘ
Venezuela ⓘ |
| continent | South America ⓘ |
| country |
Colombia
ⓘ
Venezuela ⓘ |
| drainageBasin |
Orinoco River basin
ⓘ
linked to:
Orinoco Basin
|
| ecosystemType | tropical savanna river ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
Llanos region
ⓘ
linked to:
Los Llanos
|
| hasEcologicalRole |
maintains regional hydrological balance
ⓘ
provides habitat for aquatic birds ⓘ supports floodplain forests ⓘ supports migratory fish species ⓘ |
| hasEconomicImportance |
supports cattle ranching areas
ⓘ
supports riverine communities ⓘ transport corridor for agricultural products ⓘ |
| hasNameInLanguage | Meta River ⓘ |
| hasPart |
lower Meta River
ⓘ
linked to:
middle Meta River
middle Meta River ⓘ upper Meta River ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Spanish ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Apure State
ⓘ
Casanare Department ⓘ Meta Department ⓘ
linked to:
Departamento de Meta
Vichada Department ⓘ |
| mouth | Orinoco River ⓘ |
| nameInEnglish | Meta River ⓘ |
| nameInSpanish | Río Meta ⓘ |
| navigable | yes ⓘ |
| partOf |
Orinoco basin
ⓘ
linked to:
Orinoco Basin
Orinoco wetlands and floodplains ⓘ
linked to:
Orinoco Llanos floodplains
|
| region |
Eastern Plains of Colombia
ⓘ
Los Llanos ⓘ |
| tributary |
Río Capanaparo
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Río Cinaruco ⓘ Río Cravo Sur NERFINISHED ⓘ Río Cusiana NERFINISHED ⓘ Río Manacacías NERFINISHED ⓘ Río Upía ⓘ |
| tributaryOf | Orinoco River ⓘ |
| use |
fishing
ⓘ
inland water transport ⓘ irrigation ⓘ regional trade ⓘ |
| waterBodyType | whitewater river ⓘ |
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: Río Meta (Spanish) Description of subject: Río Meta is a major river in Colombia and Venezuela that serves as an important tributary of the Orinoco River and a key waterway for transport and regional ecosystems.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.