Main River basin
E327827
The Main River basin is the extensive drainage area in central Germany that collects the waters of numerous tributaries before they flow into the Main River, a major right-bank tributary of the Rhine.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Main River basin canonical | 3 |
| Main river basin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3114394 — 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: Main River basin Context triple: [Rednitz River, riverSystem, Main River basin]
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A.
Main Basin
Main Basin is the central, deep-water portion of Puget Sound that forms the core of its marine ecosystem and shipping waters.
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B.
Acelhuate River basin
The Acelhuate River basin is a watershed in central El Salvador that drains much of the San Salvador metropolitan area and is known for severe urban pollution and flood risk.
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C.
Nangaritza River basin
The Nangaritza River basin is a biodiverse watershed in southeastern Ecuador known for its rich tropical forests, indigenous communities, and important freshwater ecosystems.
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D.
Barada River basin
The Barada River basin is the fertile and historically significant watershed in southwestern Syria that sustains Damascus and its surrounding region.
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E.
Yana River basin
The Yana River basin is a large Arctic drainage area in northeastern Siberia, encompassing the watershed of the Yana River as it flows northward to the Laptev 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: Main River basin Target entity description: The Main River basin is the extensive drainage area in central Germany that collects the waters of numerous tributaries before they flow into the Main River, a major right-bank tributary of the Rhine.
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A.
Main Basin
Main Basin is the central, deep-water portion of Puget Sound that forms the core of its marine ecosystem and shipping waters.
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B.
Acelhuate River basin
The Acelhuate River basin is a watershed in central El Salvador that drains much of the San Salvador metropolitan area and is known for severe urban pollution and flood risk.
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C.
Nangaritza River basin
The Nangaritza River basin is a biodiverse watershed in southeastern Ecuador known for its rich tropical forests, indigenous communities, and important freshwater ecosystems.
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D.
Barada River basin
The Barada River basin is the fertile and historically significant watershed in southwestern Syria that sustains Damascus and its surrounding region.
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E.
Yana River basin
The Yana River basin is a large Arctic drainage area in northeastern Siberia, encompassing the watershed of the Yana River as it flows northward to the Laptev Sea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drainage basin
ⓘ
river basin ⓘ |
| containsLandform |
Fichtel Mountains
ⓘ
Franconian Basin ⓘ Odenwald ⓘ Rhön ⓘ
surface form:
Rhön Mountains
Spessart ⓘ Thuringian Forest ⓘ
surface form:
Thuringian Forest (fringe areas)
|
| containsTributary |
Aschaff River
ⓘ
Fränkische Saale ⓘ Itz River ⓘ Kinzig (Main) River ⓘ Lahnkanal and connected streams ⓘ Nidda River ⓘ Regnitz ⓘ
surface form:
Regnitz River
Rodach River ⓘ Schwarzach (Main) River ⓘ Tauber River ⓘ |
| country | Germany ⓘ |
| drainageAreaOf |
River Main
ⓘ
surface form:
Main River
|
| drainageDirection | westward ⓘ |
| drainsInto |
River Main
ⓘ
surface form:
Main River
|
| hasClimate | temperate oceanic climate ⓘ |
| hasLandUse |
forests
ⓘ
intensive agriculture ⓘ urban areas ⓘ vineyards ⓘ |
| hasMouthIn |
Rhine
ⓘ
surface form:
Rhine River
|
| hydrologicalSystem |
Rhine River Basin
ⓘ
surface form:
Rhine River system
|
| locatedIn | central Germany ⓘ |
| majorCityInBasin |
Aschaffenburg
ⓘ
Bamberg ⓘ Frankfurt am Main ⓘ Hanau ⓘ Offenbach am Main ⓘ Würzburg ⓘ |
| partOf |
Rhine River Basin
ⓘ
surface form:
Rhine River basin
|
| passesThroughState |
Baden-Württemberg
ⓘ
Bavaria ⓘ Hesse ⓘ North Rhine-Westphalia ⓘ Thuringia ⓘ |
| riverOf |
River Main
ⓘ
surface form:
Main River
|
| tributaryOf |
Rhine River Basin
ⓘ
surface form:
Rhine River basin
|
| usedFor |
drinking water supply
ⓘ
hydropower generation ⓘ industrial water supply ⓘ inland navigation ⓘ irrigation ⓘ 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: Main River basin Description of subject: The Main River basin is the extensive drainage area in central Germany that collects the waters of numerous tributaries before they flow into the Main River, a major right-bank tributary of the Rhine.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.