Isar
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The Isar is a major river in the Austrian and German Alps that flows through cities such as Munich before joining the Danube.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Isar canonical | 80 |
| Isar at Wolfratshausen | 1 |
| Isar riverbanks | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T500744 — 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: Isar Context triple: [Bad Tölz, locatedOnRiver, Isar]
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A.
Escharen
Escharen is a village in the Dutch province of North Brabant that was formerly an independent municipality before being incorporated into a larger administrative unit.
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B.
Heiden
Heiden is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden, known as the place where Red Cross founder Henry Dunant spent his final years and died.
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C.
Mohrungen
Mohrungen is a historic town in former East Prussia (now Morąg in northern Poland), known as the birthplace of philosopher and theologian Johann Gottfried Herder.
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D.
Iasion
Iasion is a figure in Greek mythology known primarily as a mortal lover of the goddess Demeter and father of Plutus, the god of wealth.
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E.
Crombach
Crombach is a village in the municipality of St. Vith in the German-speaking region of eastern Belgium.
- 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: Isar Target entity description: The Isar is a major river in the Austrian and German Alps that flows through cities such as Munich before joining the Danube.
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A.
Escharen
Escharen is a village in the Dutch province of North Brabant that was formerly an independent municipality before being incorporated into a larger administrative unit.
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B.
Heiden
Heiden is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden, known as the place where Red Cross founder Henry Dunant spent his final years and died.
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C.
Mohrungen
Mohrungen is a historic town in former East Prussia (now Morąg in northern Poland), known as the birthplace of philosopher and theologian Johann Gottfried Herder.
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D.
Iasion
Iasion is a figure in Greek mythology known primarily as a mortal lover of the goddess Demeter and father of Plutus, the god of wealth.
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E.
Crombach
Crombach is a village in the municipality of St. Vith in the German-speaking region of eastern Belgium.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Isar Description of subject: The Isar is a major river in the Austrian and German Alps that flows through cities such as Munich before joining the Danube.
Referenced by (82)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Museumsinsel in Munich
subject linked to:
Dingolfing, Germany
subject linked to:
southern Bavaria