Krishna River
E108869
The Krishna River is one of the major rivers of southern India, flowing through Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh before emptying into the Bay of Bengal.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Krishna River canonical | 96 |
| Krishna River system | 5 |
| Krishna River near Raichur | 1 |
| Krishna River valley | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T729603 — 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: Krishna River Context triple: [Bay of Bengal, receivesRiver, Krishna River]
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A.
Godavari
Godavari is one of India's longest and holiest rivers, often called the "Dakshin Ganga" (Ganges of the South), flowing across central and southern India before emptying into the Bay of Bengal.
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B.
Kaveri
Kaveri is a major river in southern India, revered for its cultural significance and vital role in irrigation, agriculture, and hydroelectric power across the states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
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C.
Kolar River
The Kolar River is a significant tributary of central India’s Narmada River, contributing to the region’s water resources and irrigation.
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D.
Bhima River
The Bhima River is a significant river in southern India that flows through Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Telangana, supporting extensive agriculture and numerous settlements along its course.
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E.
Tungabhadra River
The Tungabhadra River is a significant river in southern India that flows through the states of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana, supporting irrigation, hydroelectric projects, and several historic temple towns along its course.
- 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: Krishna River Target entity description: The Krishna River is one of the major rivers of southern India, flowing through Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh before emptying into the Bay of Bengal.
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A.
Godavari
Godavari is one of India's longest and holiest rivers, often called the "Dakshin Ganga" (Ganges of the South), flowing across central and southern India before emptying into the Bay of Bengal.
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B.
Kaveri
Kaveri is a major river in southern India, revered for its cultural significance and vital role in irrigation, agriculture, and hydroelectric power across the states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
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C.
Kolar River
The Kolar River is a significant tributary of central India’s Narmada River, contributing to the region’s water resources and irrigation.
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D.
Bhima River
The Bhima River is a significant river in southern India that flows through Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Telangana, supporting extensive agriculture and numerous settlements along its course.
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E.
Tungabhadra River
The Tungabhadra River is a significant river in southern India that flows through the states of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana, supporting irrigation, hydroelectric projects, and several historic temple towns along its course.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Krishna River Description of subject: The Krishna River is one of the major rivers of southern India, flowing through Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh before emptying into the Bay of Bengal.
Referenced by (103)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Krishna River near Raichur
this entity surface form:
Krishna River system
subject surface form:
Raichur Doab