Kali River
E681360
Kali River is a Himalayan river flowing through India and Nepal, known for its hydropower projects, irrigation importance, and role as part of the India–Nepal border.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kali River canonical | 9 |
| Kali River valley | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6927688 — 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: Kali River Context triple: [Sarda River, alsoKnownAs, Kali River]
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A.
Kali River
The Kali River is a significant west-flowing river in the Indian state of Karnataka, known for passing by the coastal town of Karwar before emptying into the Arabian Sea.
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B.
Logar River
The Logar River is a significant river in eastern Afghanistan that flows through Logar and Kabul provinces before joining the Kabul River.
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C.
Kacha River
The Kacha River is a watercourse in Crimea that flows from the Crimean Mountains through varied landscapes before emptying into the Black Sea.
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D.
Tooma River
The Tooma River is a snow-fed river in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales, Australia, that forms part of the Snowy Mountains Scheme’s network of diverted alpine waterways.
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E.
Taieri River
The Taieri River is one of the major rivers in New Zealand’s South Island, flowing through rural Otago before reaching the Pacific Ocean.
- 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: Kali River Target entity description: Kali River is a Himalayan river flowing through India and Nepal, known for its hydropower projects, irrigation importance, and role as part of the India–Nepal border.
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A.
Kali River
The Kali River is a significant west-flowing river in the Indian state of Karnataka, known for passing by the coastal town of Karwar before emptying into the Arabian Sea.
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B.
Logar River
The Logar River is a significant river in eastern Afghanistan that flows through Logar and Kabul provinces before joining the Kabul River.
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C.
Kacha River
The Kacha River is a watercourse in Crimea that flows from the Crimean Mountains through varied landscapes before emptying into the Black Sea.
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D.
Tooma River
The Tooma River is a snow-fed river in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales, Australia, that forms part of the Snowy Mountains Scheme’s network of diverted alpine waterways.
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E.
Taieri River
The Taieri River is one of the major rivers in New Zealand’s South Island, flowing through rural Otago before reaching the Pacific Ocean.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | river ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
India
ⓘ
Nepal ⓘ |
| borderRiverOf |
India
ⓘ
Nepal ⓘ |
| country |
India
ⓘ
Nepal ⓘ |
| flowsAlong | India–Nepal boundary in parts ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
Uttarakhand
ⓘ
western Nepal ⓘ |
| formsBorderBetween |
India
ⓘ
Nepal ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Mahakali River
ⓘ
Sharda River ⓘ |
| hasEconomicSignificance |
hydropower development
ⓘ
irrigated agriculture ⓘ |
| hasEnvironmentalSignificance | Himalayan river ecosystem ⓘ |
| hasHydropowerProject |
Sharda Barrage
ⓘ
Tanakpur Hydroelectric Project ⓘ |
| hasPoliticalSignificance | boundary demarcation between India and Nepal ⓘ |
| importantFor | agricultural irrigation in adjoining regions ⓘ |
| knownFor |
hydropower projects
ⓘ
irrigation importance ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Himalayas ⓘ |
| partOf |
Ganges river system
ⓘ
linked to:
Indo-Gangetic river system
|
| partOfBorder |
India–Nepal border
ⓘ
linked to:
Indo-Nepal border
|
| region | South Asia ⓘ |
| sourceRegion | Himalayan region ⓘ |
| tributaryOf |
Ghaghara River
ⓘ
linked to:
Ghaghra River
|
| usedFor |
hydroelectric power generation
ⓘ
irrigation ⓘ |
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: Kali River Description of subject: Kali River is a Himalayan river flowing through India and Nepal, known for its hydropower projects, irrigation importance, and role as part of the India–Nepal border.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Kali River