Hotan River
E483217
The Hotan River is a major river in China’s Xinjiang region that flows northward across the Taklamakan Desert to help form the Tarim River.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hotan River canonical | 3 |
| Hotan River system | 1 |
| Khotan River flows into its interior | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4820319 — 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: Hotan River Context triple: [Tarim River, sourceConfluence, Hotan River]
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A.
Yarkand River
The Yarkand River is a major river in China’s Xinjiang region that flows through the southwestern Tarim Basin and contributes significantly to the Tarim River system.
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B.
Kokcha River
The Kokcha River is a significant tributary of the Amu Darya in northeastern Afghanistan, flowing through Badakhshan and past the ancient Greco-Bactrian city of Ai-Khanoum.
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C.
Aksu River
The Aksu River is a major river in northwestern China and Kyrgyzstan that forms the principal headwater of the Tarim River in the arid Tarim Basin.
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D.
Tarim River
The Tarim River is the longest inland river in China, flowing through the arid Tarim Basin in Xinjiang and sustaining oases along the edge of the Taklamakan Desert.
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E.
Argun River
The Argun River is a major river in Northeast Asia that forms part of the border between Russia and China and serves as one of the headwaters of the Amur 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: Hotan River Target entity description: The Hotan River is a major river in China’s Xinjiang region that flows northward across the Taklamakan Desert to help form the Tarim River.
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A.
Yarkand River
The Yarkand River is a major river in China’s Xinjiang region that flows through the southwestern Tarim Basin and contributes significantly to the Tarim River system.
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B.
Kokcha River
The Kokcha River is a significant tributary of the Amu Darya in northeastern Afghanistan, flowing through Badakhshan and past the ancient Greco-Bactrian city of Ai-Khanoum.
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C.
Aksu River
The Aksu River is a major river in northwestern China and Kyrgyzstan that forms the principal headwater of the Tarim River in the arid Tarim Basin.
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D.
Tarim River
The Tarim River is the longest inland river in China, flowing through the arid Tarim Basin in Xinjiang and sustaining oases along the edge of the Taklamakan Desert.
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E.
Argun River
The Argun River is a major river in Northeast Asia that forms part of the border between Russia and China and serves as one of the headwaters of the Amur River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Hotan River Description of subject: The Hotan River is a major river in China’s Xinjiang region that flows northward across the Taklamakan Desert to help form the Tarim River.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Hotan River
linked to: Hotan River