River Great Ouse
E27314
The River Great Ouse is one of the major rivers in eastern England, flowing through several counties and historic towns before reaching The Wash on the North Sea.
All labels observed (12)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T170350 — 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 Great Ouse Context triple: [River Cam, tributaryOf, River Great Ouse]
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A.
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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B.
River Wey
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Thames
The Thames is a major river in southern England that flows through London and has long been central to the country’s history, commerce, and culture.
- 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 Great Ouse Target entity description: The River Great Ouse is one of the major rivers in eastern England, flowing through several counties and historic towns before reaching The Wash on the North Sea.
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A.
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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B.
River Wey
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Thames
The Thames is a major river in southern England that flows through London and has long been central to the country’s history, commerce, and culture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | river ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
England
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| country | England ⓘ |
| dischargesInto | The Wash ⓘ |
| drainageBasin |
Lincolnshire Fens
ⓘ
surface form:
The Fens
|
| flowsThrough |
Bedford
ⓘ
Bedfordshire ⓘ Buckinghamshire ⓘ Cambridgeshire, England ⓘ
surface form:
Cambridgeshire
Ely ⓘ Huntingdon ⓘ Huntingdonshire ⓘ King's Lynn ⓘ Milton Keynes ⓘ Norfolk ⓘ Northamptonshire ⓘ St Ives, Cambridgeshire ⓘ St Neots ⓘ |
| hasCanalConnection | Grand Union Canal ⓘ |
| hasCityOnRiver |
Bedford
ⓘ
Ely ⓘ |
| hasTownOnRiver |
Huntingdon
ⓘ
King's Lynn ⓘ St Ives, Cambridgeshire ⓘ St Neots ⓘ |
| hasTributary |
River Cam
ⓘ
River Ivel ⓘ River Kym ⓘ River Lark ⓘ River Little Ouse ⓘ River Ouzel ⓘ River Wissey ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
East of England
ⓘ
surface form:
eastern England
|
| mouth | The Wash ⓘ |
| mouthLocation | North Sea ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the major rivers in eastern England ⓘ |
| partOf | The Fens drainage system ⓘ |
| region | East of England ⓘ |
| sourceLocation | Northamptonshire ⓘ |
| usedFor |
angling
ⓘ
boating ⓘ navigation ⓘ recreation ⓘ |
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 Great Ouse Description of subject: The River Great Ouse is one of the major rivers in eastern England, flowing through several counties and historic towns before reaching The Wash on the North Sea.
Referenced by (117)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Great Ouse river system
this entity surface form:
River Great Ouse at St Ives
this entity surface form:
River Great Ouse (nearby headwaters)
this entity surface form:
Great Ouse river system