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
Qiantang River
Beas River
Saône River
Hoosic River
Sassagoula River transportation waterway
Chorokhi River
Uhl River
Nambucca River
Wisconsin River
Loyalhanna Creek
River Coquet
Mill Creek (Illinois) stream
Rob Roy Creek stream
Delaware River (Kansas)
Mill Creek (Kansas) stream
Soldier Creek (Kansas) stream
Pearl River
Scorton Creek watercourse
Acre River
Narew River
Mayenne River
San Antonio River
surface form: San Antonio River (California)
Umgeni River
Minoh River
Bentley Brook stream
Unterweser tidal river
Little River
surface form: Little River (Durham County, North Carolina)
Econfina Creek (part) stream
Croton River
Tirana River
Ribnica
surface form: Ribnica (river)
Connoquenessing Creek creek
Brda River
Tiétar River
Des Moines River
Flint River
Carroll Creek waterway
Landwasser
Nuthe
River Tay
Saint-Maurice River
Jacob van Lennepkanaal waterway
Rapel River
Blackberry Creek (Illinois) stream
Huai River
Clearwater River
Bellinger River
Karuah River
Sutlej River
Huron River