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
St. George River
Hydraotes River ancient river name
Son
surface form: Son River
Punpun
surface form: Punpun River
Fourth Cataract of the Nile river rapid
Coney Island Creek creek
Pamisos River (nearby)
Torío River
Stony River
Essonne River
Tye River
Vokhma River
Isle River
Baker River
Klickitat River
Weiße Elster
Lumbardhi i Pejës
Tegeler Fließ valley (nearby)
surface form: Tegeler Fließ valley
stream landscape
West Branch Cooper River
Altaelva
River Colne
Ischl
West Morava
Gomati River
Zamora River
Oskawalik River
Belaya River
Tecate Creek stream
Yula River
Pine River
surface form: Pine River (Tasmania)
South Morava
River Frome
surface form: River Frome (Dorset)
Taughannock Creek stream
Krzna River
Tungabhadra River
Sealark Channel waterway
Dead River (Michigan)
Sansobbia
Reisaelva
Shenandoah River
Trubizh River
Innerste River
surface form: Innerste
Russian River (California)
Prien River
Lakselva
East Branch Cooper River
Gornera River
Enipeus River
Blue Nile
Atbara River