river

C79
concept

A river is a natural flowing body of water, usually freshwater, that moves continuously along a defined channel from higher elevations toward lower ones, often emptying into a sea, lake, or another river.

All labels observed (200)

Label Occurrences
river canonical 9,330
stream 1,086
waterway 676

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: river
Generated description
A river is a natural flowing body of water, usually freshwater, that moves continuously along a defined channel from higher elevations toward lower ones, often emptying into a sea, lake, or another river.

Instances (11,359)

Instance Via concept surface
Arthur Kill waterway
Hood Canal waterway
Chena River
Yana River
Singel canal
surface form: Singel
waterway
Zambezi River
Kennebec River near Skowhegan, Maine river reach
Goldrill Beck
Etobicoke Creek
Kura River
Hudson River watershed via Croton River
surface form: Nanny Hagen Brook
stream
Leichhardt River
Olyokma River
Regnitz
River Neath
Alewife Brook stream
Wilhelmina Canal waterway
Nelson River
Platte River
Crystal Pond Brook stream
Shropshire Union Canal waterway
Altmühl
Limpopo River
Alamo River
Danube
Youghiogheny River
Cherry Creek
surface form: Cherry Creek (Tuolumne County, California)
mountain stream
Tigris
Long River (tributary of Liu River)
Yosemite Creek mountain stream
IJ waterway
surface form: IJ
waterway
Tejo
Vernooy Kill stream
Macatawa River
Tanana River
Mahakam River
Papaloapan River
river god Achelous
surface form: Achelous River
River Ouzel
River Ure
Thames River (Connecticut)
Zeya River
Plum Run stream
Mtkvari River
Hunter Brook stream
River Dart
Blackwater River
Cod Beck
Scheldt
River Avon
surface form: River Avon (Christchurch)