The River
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"The River" is a 1938 Broadway play by Patrick Hastings, remembered today largely for featuring American stage and film actress Anne Revere in a notable role.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The River canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1582102 — 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: The River Context triple: [Anne Revere, notableWork, The River]
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A.
The River
The River is a 1980 double album by Bruce Springsteen that blends rock, folk, and heartland storytelling, featuring themes of working-class struggle and emotional turmoil.
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B.
River Tame
The River Tame is a river in Greater Manchester, England, that flows through towns such as Ashton-under-Lyne and Stockport before joining another river to help form the River Mersey.
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C.
Ourthe River
The Ourthe River is a major watercourse in southeastern Belgium that flows through the Ardennes region before joining the Meuse River.
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D.
The River Bank
"The River Bank" is the opening chapter of Kenneth Grahame's classic children's novel *The Wind in the Willows*, introducing readers to the pastoral world and main animal characters along the riverside.
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E.
River Went
River Went is a small river in West Yorkshire, England, that flows through rural landscapes and villages before joining the River Don.
- 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: The River Target entity description: "The River" is a 1938 Broadway play by Patrick Hastings, remembered today largely for featuring American stage and film actress Anne Revere in a notable role.
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A.
The River
The River is a 1980 double album by Bruce Springsteen that blends rock, folk, and heartland storytelling, featuring themes of working-class struggle and emotional turmoil.
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B.
River Tame
The River Tame is a river in Greater Manchester, England, that flows through towns such as Ashton-under-Lyne and Stockport before joining another river to help form the River Mersey.
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C.
Ourthe River
The Ourthe River is a major watercourse in southeastern Belgium that flows through the Ardennes region before joining the Meuse River.
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D.
The River Bank
"The River Bank" is the opening chapter of Kenneth Grahame's classic children's novel *The Wind in the Willows*, introducing readers to the pastoral world and main animal characters along the riverside.
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E.
River Went
River Went is a small river in West Yorkshire, England, that flows through rural landscapes and villages before joining the River Don.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
play
ⓘ
theatrical work ⓘ |
| author | Patrick Hastings ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creatorOccupation |
barrister
ⓘ
playwright ⓘ |
| featuredActress | Anne Revere ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceDate | 1938 ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| hasCastMember | Anne Revere ⓘ |
| hasMedium | stage ⓘ |
| hasNotabilityReason | featured Anne Revere in a notable role ⓘ |
| hasSubject | fictional narrative ⓘ |
| hasTitle | The River ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableCastMember | Anne Revere ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Broadway theatre history ⓘ |
| performanceArtForm | theatre ⓘ |
| performanceLocation | Broadway ⓘ |
| performedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| productionType | Broadway play ⓘ |
| publicationCentury | 20th century ⓘ |
| writer | Patrick Hastings ⓘ |
| yearOfWork | 1938 ⓘ |
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: The River Description of subject: "The River" is a 1938 Broadway play by Patrick Hastings, remembered today largely for featuring American stage and film actress Anne Revere in a notable role.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.