Asahan River
E220320
The Asahan River is a major river in northern Sumatra, Indonesia, flowing from Lake Toba to the Strait of Malacca and supporting regional hydroelectric power and irrigation.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Asahan River canonical | 2 |
| Asahan River basin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T730822 — 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: Asahan River Context triple: [Sumatra, hasRiver, Asahan River]
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A.
Banjar River
The Banjar River is a significant tributary in central India that feeds into the Narmada River system.
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B.
Loa River
The Loa River is the longest river in Chile, flowing in a great arc through the Atacama Desert to the Pacific Ocean.
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C.
Tapi River
The Tapi River is a major west-flowing river in central India that traverses Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, and Gujarat before emptying into the Arabian Sea.
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D.
Pearl River
The Pearl River is a major waterway in the southern United States that flows through central Mississippi and forms part of the Mississippi–Louisiana border before emptying into the Gulf of Mexico.
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E.
Pearl River
The Pearl River is a major river system in southern China that flows through key cities like Guangzhou before emptying into the South China Sea.
- 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: Asahan River Target entity description: The Asahan River is a major river in northern Sumatra, Indonesia, flowing from Lake Toba to the Strait of Malacca and supporting regional hydroelectric power and irrigation.
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A.
Banjar River
The Banjar River is a significant tributary in central India that feeds into the Narmada River system.
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B.
Loa River
The Loa River is the longest river in Chile, flowing in a great arc through the Atacama Desert to the Pacific Ocean.
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C.
Tapi River
The Tapi River is a major west-flowing river in central India that traverses Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, and Gujarat before emptying into the Arabian Sea.
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D.
Pearl River
The Pearl River is a major waterway in the southern United States that flows through central Mississippi and forms part of the Mississippi–Louisiana border before emptying into the Gulf of Mexico.
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E.
Pearl River
The Pearl River is a major river system in southern China that flows through key cities like Guangzhou before emptying into the South China Sea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
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: Asahan River Description of subject: The Asahan River is a major river in northern Sumatra, Indonesia, flowing from Lake Toba to the Strait of Malacca and supporting regional hydroelectric power and irrigation.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Asahan River basin