Teesta River
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The Teesta River is a significant transboundary river flowing through India and Bangladesh, known for its role in regional agriculture, hydropower, and longstanding water-sharing disputes.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Teesta River canonical | 70 |
| Teesta River basin | 10 |
| Teesta River system | 2 |
| Teesta basin | 2 |
| Teesta River in Sikkim | 1 |
| Teesta river system | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T377396 — 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: Teesta River Context triple: [Brahmaputra, majorTributary, Teesta River]
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A.
Kistna River
The Kistna River, more commonly known as the Krishna River, is a major river in southern India that flows through the states of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh before emptying into the Bay of Bengal.
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Chambal River
The Chambal River is a major river in central India known for its deep ravines, wildlife-rich sanctuary areas, and role as a significant tributary of the Yamuna.
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Ghataprabha River
The Ghataprabha River is a significant river in southern India that flows through Karnataka and Maharashtra, supporting irrigation, agriculture, and hydroelectric projects before joining the Krishna River.
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Bhima River
The Bhima River is a significant river in southern India that flows through Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Telangana, supporting extensive agriculture and numerous settlements along its course.
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Betwa River
The Betwa River is a major river in central India that flows through Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh before joining the Yamuna, supporting irrigation, agriculture, and several historic cities along its course.
- 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: Teesta River Target entity description: The Teesta River is a significant transboundary river flowing through India and Bangladesh, known for its role in regional agriculture, hydropower, and longstanding water-sharing disputes.
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A.
Kistna River
The Kistna River, more commonly known as the Krishna River, is a major river in southern India that flows through the states of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh before emptying into the Bay of Bengal.
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B.
Chambal River
The Chambal River is a major river in central India known for its deep ravines, wildlife-rich sanctuary areas, and role as a significant tributary of the Yamuna.
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C.
Ghataprabha River
The Ghataprabha River is a significant river in southern India that flows through Karnataka and Maharashtra, supporting irrigation, agriculture, and hydroelectric projects before joining the Krishna River.
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D.
Bhima River
The Bhima River is a significant river in southern India that flows through Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Telangana, supporting extensive agriculture and numerous settlements along its course.
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E.
Betwa River
The Betwa River is a major river in central India that flows through Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh before joining the Yamuna, supporting irrigation, agriculture, and several historic cities along its course.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Teesta River Description of subject: The Teesta River is a significant transboundary river flowing through India and Bangladesh, known for its role in regional agriculture, hydropower, and longstanding water-sharing disputes.
Referenced by (86)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
Indian state of Sikkim
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North Bengal
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North Bengal
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