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
Han River (Guangdong)
Steinbach
surface form: Steinbach (Starnberger See)
Kreuzlinger Forstgraben watercourse
Harlem Creek (historic) stream
Pripyat
surface form: Pripyat River
Sozh
Psel
Pecos River
Mukogawa River
Ninh Co River
Johnstone Strait waterway
Aljezur River
Alagnon River
Pocomoke River
Calavon River
Taraba River
Weber River
Höllental
surface form: Hammersbach
mountain stream
Varuna River
River Farset
Yellow Spring Run stream
Qing River
Nechako River
Pahang River
Onondaga Creek stream
Little Rouge Creek creek
Kladios River
Río Negro
surface form: Río Negro (Cundinamarca)
River Truro tidal river
Tsiribihina River
Shukugawa River
Blau River
Aller River
River Dearne
Tiroler Achen
River Lambourn
Sorgue River
River Ver
River Chess
River Frays
Gaja stream
Pipiwai Stream stream
Goodwives River tidal river
Gairie Burn
Desna
Berezina
Borysthenes ancient river name
Lüßbach
River Seph
Oconee River