Thames River
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The Thames River is a Canadian river in southwestern Ontario that flows through communities such as Woodstock before emptying into Lake St. Clair.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thames River canonical | 16 |
| North Thames River | 2 |
| South Thames River | 2 |
| Thames | 2 |
| the forks of the Thames River | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2349341 — 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: Thames River Context triple: [Woodstock, Ontario, river, Thames River]
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A.
Thames River
The Thames River in Connecticut is a short tidal estuary in the southeastern part of the state that flows past cities like New London into Long Island Sound.
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B.
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.
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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 Trent
The River Trent is one of the principal rivers in the Midlands of England, flowing through cities such as Stoke-on-Trent and Nottingham before joining the Humber Estuary.
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E.
River Ouse
The River Ouse is a major river in North Yorkshire, England, flowing through the historic city of York and forming part of the Humber river system before reaching the North 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: Thames River Target entity description: The Thames River is a Canadian river in southwestern Ontario that flows through communities such as Woodstock before emptying into Lake St. Clair.
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A.
Thames River
The Thames River in Connecticut is a short tidal estuary in the southeastern part of the state that flows past cities like New London into Long Island Sound.
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B.
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.
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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 Trent
The River Trent is one of the principal rivers in the Midlands of England, flowing through cities such as Stoke-on-Trent and Nottingham before joining the Humber Estuary.
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E.
River Ouse
The River Ouse is a major river in North Yorkshire, England, flowing through the historic city of York and forming part of the Humber river system before reaching the North Sea.
- 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: Thames River Description of subject: The Thames River is a Canadian river in southwestern Ontario that flows through communities such as Woodstock before emptying into Lake St. Clair.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Thames
this entity surface form:
the forks of the Thames River
this entity surface form:
North Thames River
this entity surface form:
South Thames River
this entity surface form:
Thames
subject surface form:
Thames River (Ontario)
this entity surface form:
North Thames River
subject surface form:
Thames River (Ontario)
this entity surface form:
South Thames River
subject surface form:
Ingersoll, Ontario