Würm
E333214
Würm is a river in Bavaria, Germany, known for flowing from Lake Starnberg through several towns before joining the Isar River near Munich.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Würm canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3181109 — 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: Würm Context triple: [Isar, hasTributary, Würm]
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A.
Zwenkau
Zwenkau is a small town in the Free State of Saxony in eastern Germany, situated near Leipzig and known for its proximity to former lignite mining areas now being transformed into lake landscapes.
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B.
Unterweser
Unterweser is the name given to the lower tidal section of the Weser River in northwestern Germany, extending from near Bremen to its mouth at the North Sea.
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C.
Ormur
Ormur is a lesser-known Eastern Iranian language spoken primarily by the Ormur people in parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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D.
Ehrwald
Ehrwald is a picturesque Austrian village in Tyrol, known as a popular alpine resort and gateway to the Zugspitze massif.
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E.
Flöha
Flöha is a small town in the Free State of Saxony in eastern Germany, situated near Chemnitz and known historically as a local railway and industrial hub.
- 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: Würm Target entity description: Würm is a river in Bavaria, Germany, known for flowing from Lake Starnberg through several towns before joining the Isar River near Munich.
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A.
Zwenkau
Zwenkau is a small town in the Free State of Saxony in eastern Germany, situated near Leipzig and known for its proximity to former lignite mining areas now being transformed into lake landscapes.
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B.
Unterweser
Unterweser is the name given to the lower tidal section of the Weser River in northwestern Germany, extending from near Bremen to its mouth at the North Sea.
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C.
Ormur
Ormur is a lesser-known Eastern Iranian language spoken primarily by the Ormur people in parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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D.
Ehrwald
Ehrwald is a picturesque Austrian village in Tyrol, known as a popular alpine resort and gateway to the Zugspitze massif.
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E.
Flöha
Flöha is a small town in the Free State of Saxony in eastern Germany, situated near Chemnitz and known historically as a local railway and industrial hub.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | river ⓘ |
| basinCountry | Germany ⓘ |
| country | Germany ⓘ |
| flowsDirection | generally northward ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
Gauting
ⓘ
Gräfelfing ⓘ Krailling ⓘ Pasing ⓘ Planegg ⓘ Starnberg ⓘ |
| hasHydrologicalConnection |
Isar
ⓘ
Lake Starnberg ⓘ |
| hasNameInLanguage | de:Würm ⓘ |
| hasSourceType | lake outflow ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Bavaria
ⓘ
Upper Bavaria ⓘ |
| mouthLocation | near Munich ⓘ |
| mouthOfWatercourse | Isar ⓘ |
| mouthRegion |
Munich metropolitan region
ⓘ
surface form:
Munich metropolitan area
|
| namedAfter | Würm glaciation ⓘ |
| partOf |
Danube region
ⓘ
surface form:
Danube river basin
|
| passesNear | Munich ⓘ |
| region | southern Germany ⓘ |
| sourceLocation | Lake Starnberg outflow at Starnberg ⓘ |
| sourceOfWatercourse | Lake Starnberg ⓘ |
| tributaryOf | Isar ⓘ |
| usedFor |
local flood control
ⓘ
recreation ⓘ |
| watercourseType | right tributary ⓘ |
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: Würm Description of subject: Würm is a river in Bavaria, Germany, known for flowing from Lake Starnberg through several towns before joining the Isar River near Munich.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Isar