River Wey
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The River Wey is a tributary of the River Thames in southern England, flowing through Hampshire and Surrey and historically important for navigation and trade.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| River Wey canonical | 58 |
| River Thames at East Molesey | 1 |
| River Wey (nearby headwaters) | 1 |
| River Wey (nearby) | 1 |
| River Wey basin | 1 |
| River Wey in Guildford | 1 |
| River_Wey_basin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T144418 — 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: River Wey Context triple: [Surrey, crossedByRiver, River Wey]
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A.
River Cam
The River Cam is a picturesque river in eastern England best known for flowing through the historic city and university of Cambridge, where it is famous for punting and scenic college views.
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B.
River Witham
River Witham is a major river in Lincolnshire, England, flowing through several towns and cities before reaching The Wash on the North Sea coast.
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C.
Severn
The Severn is the longest river in Great Britain, flowing through Wales and England before emptying into the Bristol Channel.
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D.
River Croal
River Croal is a small river in Greater Manchester, England, that flows through Bolton before joining the River Irwell.
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E.
River Almond
The River Almond is a river in central Scotland that flows through West Lothian and the outskirts of Edinburgh before reaching the Firth of Forth.
- 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: River Wey Target entity description: The River Wey is a tributary of the River Thames in southern England, flowing through Hampshire and Surrey and historically important for navigation and trade.
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A.
River Cam
The River Cam is a picturesque river in eastern England best known for flowing through the historic city and university of Cambridge, where it is famous for punting and scenic college views.
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B.
River Witham
River Witham is a major river in Lincolnshire, England, flowing through several towns and cities before reaching The Wash on the North Sea coast.
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C.
Severn
The Severn is the longest river in Great Britain, flowing through Wales and England before emptying into the Bristol Channel.
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D.
River Croal
River Croal is a small river in Greater Manchester, England, that flows through Bolton before joining the River Irwell.
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E.
River Almond
The River Almond is a river in central Scotland that flows through West Lothian and the outskirts of Edinburgh before reaching the Firth of Forth.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: River Wey Description of subject: The River Wey is a tributary of the River Thames in southern England, flowing through Hampshire and Surrey and historically important for navigation and trade.
Referenced by (64)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
River Wey (nearby headwaters)