Salween River
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The Salween River is a major river in Southeast Asia that flows from the Tibetan Plateau through China and Myanmar to the Andaman Sea, known for its largely undammed, wild course and rich biodiversity.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Salween River canonical | 18 |
| Salween River basin | 8 |
| Salween River system | 2 |
| Salween | 1 |
| Salween River upper reaches | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T655220 — 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: Salween River Context triple: [Myanmar, hasRiver, Salween River]
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A.
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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Tista River
The Tista River is a waterway flowing through Halden in southeastern Norway, known for its historical industrial use and as a defining feature of the town’s landscape.
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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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Teesta River
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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Subansiri River
The Subansiri River is a significant river in the eastern Himalayas and northeastern India, known for its hydropower potential and as an important waterway flowing through Arunachal Pradesh and Assam.
- 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: Salween River Target entity description: The Salween River is a major river in Southeast Asia that flows from the Tibetan Plateau through China and Myanmar to the Andaman Sea, known for its largely undammed, wild course and rich biodiversity.
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A.
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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B.
Tista River
The Tista River is a waterway flowing through Halden in southeastern Norway, known for its historical industrial use and as a defining feature of the town’s landscape.
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C.
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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D.
Teesta River
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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E.
Subansiri River
The Subansiri River is a significant river in the eastern Himalayas and northeastern India, known for its hydropower potential and as an important waterway flowing through Arunachal Pradesh and Assam.
- 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: Salween River Description of subject: The Salween River is a major river in Southeast Asia that flows from the Tibetan Plateau through China and Myanmar to the Andaman Sea, known for its largely undammed, wild course and rich biodiversity.
Referenced by (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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