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
Sespe Creek creek
Strait of Belle Isle waterway
Maas
Merced River
Sybaris River
river Pekel A
surface form: Pekel A
Pekelderdiep waterway
River Dodder
Buffalo Creek stream
River Noe
Ñuble River
Kirichwa River
Beden Brook stream
Dungeness River
Imus River
Zeravshan River
Rice Creek
surface form: Rice Creek (Minnesota)
Skookumchuck River
River Till
Río Consulado
Sydenham River
Troublesome Creek
surface form: Troublesome Creek (North Carolina)
stream
Clark Fork River and Bitterroot River
surface form: Clark Fork River
Conewago Creek stream
Yasu River
Burges
Tuolumne River
Souadabscook Stream stream
River Severn at Melverley river reach
River Cain
Swilcan Burn stream
Ausable River
Diemel
Kotorosl River
Choqueyapu River
River Pleiße
Acheron Passage waterway
Green Brook stream
Inland Waterway (Michigan) waterway
Humber River
River Wansbeck (nearby)
surface form: River Wansbeck
Metauro River
Malibu Creek creek
Gose
Bassac River
River Thame
George River
Río Grande de Loíza
Meuse
Pripyat River