Jamuna River
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The Jamuna River is the main distributary channel of the Brahmaputra in Bangladesh, forming one of the country’s largest and most dynamic river systems.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jamuna River canonical | 38 |
| Brahmaputra-Jamuna | 1 |
| Jamuna River basin | 1 |
| যমুনা নদী | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T377390 — 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: Jamuna River Context triple: [Brahmaputra, alsoKnownAs, Jamuna River]
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A.
Jamuna
Jamuna is an alternative name for the Yamuna, one of the major sacred rivers of northern India that flows through cities such as Delhi and Agra.
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B.
Ganges
The Ganges is a major river in northern India that is considered sacred in Hinduism and supports hundreds of millions of people along its basin.
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C.
Ghaghara
Ghaghara is a major Himalayan river in northern India and Nepal that significantly contributes to the flow of the Ganges.
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D.
Meghna
Meghna is a major river in Bangladesh that forms one of the principal distributaries of the Ganges–Brahmaputra river system before emptying into the Bay of Bengal.
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E.
Hooghly River
The Hooghly River is a major distributary of the Ganges in eastern India that flows past Kolkata and serves as a vital waterway for transport, trade, and industry in West Bengal.
- 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: Jamuna River Target entity description: The Jamuna River is the main distributary channel of the Brahmaputra in Bangladesh, forming one of the country’s largest and most dynamic river systems.
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A.
Jamuna
Jamuna is an alternative name for the Yamuna, one of the major sacred rivers of northern India that flows through cities such as Delhi and Agra.
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B.
Ganges
The Ganges is a major river in northern India that is considered sacred in Hinduism and supports hundreds of millions of people along its basin.
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C.
Ghaghara
Ghaghara is a major Himalayan river in northern India and Nepal that significantly contributes to the flow of the Ganges.
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D.
Meghna
Meghna is a major river in Bangladesh that forms one of the principal distributaries of the Ganges–Brahmaputra river system before emptying into the Bay of Bengal.
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E.
Hooghly River
The Hooghly River is a major distributary of the Ganges in eastern India that flows past Kolkata and serves as a vital waterway for transport, trade, and industry in West Bengal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
distributary
ⓘ
river ⓘ |
| bridgeCountMajor | 1 ⓘ |
| confluenceWith |
Ganges River
ⓘ
linked to:
Ganges
Padma River ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Bangladesh ⓘ |
| countryRankBySize | one of the largest rivers of Bangladesh ⓘ |
| crossedBy |
Bangabandhu Bridge
ⓘ
Jamuna Multipurpose Bridge ⓘ
linked to:
Bangabandhu Bridge
|
| distributaryOf |
Brahmaputra River
ⓘ
linked to:
Brahmaputra
|
| drainageBasinCountry | Bangladesh ⓘ |
| economicImportance |
agricultural support via floodplain fertility
ⓘ
fisheries resource ⓘ transport corridor ⓘ |
| floodplainType | active floodplain ⓘ |
| flowsDirectionGeneral | north–south ⓘ |
| flowsThrough | Bangladesh ⓘ |
| formsBoundaryBetween |
Rajshahi Division and Dhaka Division (in parts)
ⓘ
Rajshahi Division and Rangpur Division (in parts) ⓘ |
| formsConfluenceAt | Goalundo Ghat ⓘ |
| hydrologicalType | braided river ⓘ |
| joins |
Meghna River
ⓘ
linked to:
Meghna
Padma River ⓘ |
| knownFor |
braided channel pattern
ⓘ
frequent channel shifting ⓘ large sediment load ⓘ seasonal flooding ⓘ severe bank erosion ⓘ |
| languageNameInBangla |
যমুনা নদী
ⓘ
linked to:
Jamuna River
|
| locatedIn |
Bangladesh
ⓘ
South Asia ⓘ |
| majorNearbyCity |
Bogura region vicinity
ⓘ
Jamalpur ⓘ Sirajganj ⓘ Tangail ⓘ |
| mouth |
Meghna River
ⓘ
linked to:
Meghna
|
| partOf |
Brahmaputra River system
ⓘ
linked to:
Brahmaputra
Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna river system ⓘ
linked to:
Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna river system
|
| risk |
monsoon flooding
ⓘ
riverbank erosion ⓘ |
| seasonalVariation |
high discharge during monsoon
ⓘ
low discharge during dry season ⓘ |
| sourceRegion | Assam Himalayas vicinity (via Brahmaputra) ⓘ |
| tributaryTo |
Meghna River
ⓘ
linked to:
Meghna
|
| usedFor |
fishing
ⓘ
inland navigation ⓘ irrigation ⓘ sand mining ⓘ |
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: Jamuna River Description of subject: The Jamuna River is the main distributary channel of the Brahmaputra in Bangladesh, forming one of the country’s largest and most dynamic river systems.
Referenced by (41)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Jamuna River
subject linked to:
North Bengal
linked to: Jamuna River
subject linked to:
Rajshahi Division and Rangpur Division (in parts)
subject linked to:
Rajshahi Division and Rangpur Division (in parts)
subject linked to:
Rajshahi Division and Rangpur Division (in parts)
subject linked to:
Rajshahi Division and Rangpur Division (in parts)
subject linked to:
Rajshahi Division and Rangpur Division (in parts)
subject linked to:
Rajshahi Division and Rangpur Division (in parts)
linked to: Jamuna River
subject linked to:
Chars (river islands) on the Jamuna