Nu Jiang
E1043433
Nu Jiang is a major river in southwestern China that flows through steep gorges before continuing into Southeast Asia, where it is known as the Salween River.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nu Jiang canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13305143 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nu Jiang Context triple: [Thanlwin River, alsoKnownAs, Nu Jiang]
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A.
Jialing River
The Jialing River is a significant river in southwestern China that flows through Sichuan and Chongqing, contributing heavily to the region’s water resources, transportation, and ecology.
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B.
Xushui River
The Xushui River is a regional river associated with the city of Chenzhou in southern China, contributing to its local water system and landscape.
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C.
Xin’an River
The Xin’an River is a major river in eastern China known for its scenic landscapes and as an important tributary contributing to the Qiantang River system.
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D.
Xié River
The Xié River is a waterway in the northwest Amazon region of Brazil, known for being home to Indigenous communities such as the Warekena people.
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E.
Jiulong River
The Jiulong River is a major river in southeastern China that flows through Fujian Province and plays an important role in the region’s ecology, transportation, and agriculture.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nu Jiang Target entity description: Nu Jiang is a major river in southwestern China that flows through steep gorges before continuing into Southeast Asia, where it is known as the Salween River.
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A.
Jialing River
The Jialing River is a significant river in southwestern China that flows through Sichuan and Chongqing, contributing heavily to the region’s water resources, transportation, and ecology.
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B.
Xushui River
The Xushui River is a regional river associated with the city of Chenzhou in southern China, contributing to its local water system and landscape.
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C.
Xin’an River
The Xin’an River is a major river in eastern China known for its scenic landscapes and as an important tributary contributing to the Qiantang River system.
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D.
Xié River
The Xié River is a waterway in the northwest Amazon region of Brazil, known for being home to Indigenous communities such as the Warekena people.
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E.
Jiulong River
The Jiulong River is a major river in southeastern China that flows through Fujian Province and plays an important role in the region’s ecology, transportation, and agriculture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
geographical feature
ⓘ
river ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
China
ⓘ
Myanmar NERFINISHED ⓘ Thailand NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| borderFunction | forms part of the border between Myanmar and Thailand ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| emptiesInto | Gulf of Martaban region of Andaman Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flowsDirection | generally southward ⓘ |
| flowsInto | Andaman Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flowsParallelTo |
Jinsha River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lancang River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
China
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Myanmar NERFINISHED ⓘ Thailand NERFINISHED ⓘ canyons ⓘ deep gorges ⓘ mountainous terrain ⓘ |
| hasApproximateLength | 2815 kilometers ⓘ |
| hasAverageDischarge | significant but variable seasonal flow ⓘ |
| hasConservationStatus | largely free-flowing in China ⓘ |
| hasDownstreamName | Thanlwin River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEcoregion | Nujiang–Lancang Gorge forests NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasInternationalRiverStatus | transboundary river in Asia ⓘ |
| hasMajorTributary | Gaoligong Mountain streams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNameEtymology | Chinese name 怒江 literally means “angry river” ⓘ |
| hasSourceRegion |
Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tibetan Plateau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasValley | Nujiang Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Indo-Pacific river systems ⓘ |
| knownAs |
Nu River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Salween River NERFINISHED ⓘ 怒江 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownAsInMyanmar | Thanlwin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownAsInThailand | Salawin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Eastern Himalayas region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Southwestern China NERFINISHED ⓘ Three Parallel Rivers region NERFINISHED ⓘ Yunnan Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mouthLocatedIn | Andaman Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Salween River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesNear | Lijiang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough | Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf | hydropower development debates ⓘ |
| upperCourseNameOf | Salween River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Nu Jiang Description of subject: Nu Jiang is a major river in southwestern China that flows through steep gorges before continuing into Southeast Asia, where it is known as the Salween River.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.