Meghna
E33378
Meghna is a major river in Bangladesh that forms one of the principal distributaries of the Ganges–Brahmaputra river system before emptying into the Bay of Bengal.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Meghna River | 29 |
| Meghna canonical | 6 |
| Meghna River system | 5 |
| Meghna River Basin | 2 |
| Meghna river system | 2 |
| Lower Meghna | 1 |
| Meghna River basin | 1 |
| Meghna basin | 1 |
| Meghna–Dhonagoda river system | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T236753 — 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: Meghna Context triple: [Bengal, traversedByRiver, Meghna]
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A.
Brahmaputra
The Brahmaputra is a major transboundary river in South Asia that flows through Tibet, India, and Bangladesh, playing a crucial role in the region’s ecology, agriculture, and culture.
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B.
Ghaghara
Ghaghara is a major Himalayan river in northern India and Nepal that significantly contributes to the flow of the Ganges.
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C.
Ganges
The Ganges is a major river in northern India that is considered sacred in Hinduism and supports hundreds of millions of people along its basin.
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D.
Hooghly River
The Hooghly River is a major distributary of the Ganges in eastern India that flows past Kolkata and serves as a vital waterway for transport, trade, and industry in West Bengal.
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E.
Namami Gange
Namami Gange is an Indian government flagship initiative aimed at cleaning, rejuvenating, and protecting the Ganges River and its ecosystem.
- 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: Meghna Target entity description: Meghna is a major river in Bangladesh that forms one of the principal distributaries of the Ganges–Brahmaputra river system before emptying into the Bay of Bengal.
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A.
Brahmaputra
The Brahmaputra is a major transboundary river in South Asia that flows through Tibet, India, and Bangladesh, playing a crucial role in the region’s ecology, agriculture, and culture.
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B.
Ghaghara
Ghaghara is a major Himalayan river in northern India and Nepal that significantly contributes to the flow of the Ganges.
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C.
Ganges
The Ganges is a major river in northern India that is considered sacred in Hinduism and supports hundreds of millions of people along its basin.
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D.
Hooghly River
The Hooghly River is a major distributary of the Ganges in eastern India that flows past Kolkata and serves as a vital waterway for transport, trade, and industry in West Bengal.
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E.
Namami Gange
Namami Gange is an Indian government flagship initiative aimed at cleaning, rejuvenating, and protecting the Ganges River and its ecosystem.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Meghna Description of subject: Meghna is a major river in Bangladesh that forms one of the principal distributaries of the Ganges–Brahmaputra river system before emptying into the Bay of Bengal.
Referenced by (48)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Meghna River
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Meghna River
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Meghna basin
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Meghna River
this entity surface form:
Meghna River
subject surface form:
Meghna River
subject surface form:
Meghna River
this entity surface form:
Meghna River Basin
this entity surface form:
Meghna River
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Meghna River
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Meghna River
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Meghna River
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Meghna River
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Ganges river dolphin
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Meghna river system
this entity surface form:
Meghna River
this entity surface form:
Meghna River system
subject surface form:
Khulna Division
this entity surface form:
Meghna River
this entity surface form:
Meghna River
this entity surface form:
Meghna River
this entity surface form:
Meghna River
this entity surface form:
Meghna River
this entity surface form:
Meghna River
this entity surface form:
Meghna River
this entity surface form:
Meghna River
this entity surface form:
Meghna River
this entity surface form:
Meghna River
this entity surface form:
Meghna–Dhonagoda river system
this entity surface form:
Meghna River
this entity surface form:
Meghna River
this entity surface form:
Meghna River
this entity surface form:
Meghna river system
this entity surface form:
Meghna River Basin
this entity surface form:
Meghna River
this entity surface form:
Meghna River
this entity surface form:
Lower Meghna
this entity surface form:
Meghna River
this entity surface form:
Meghna River system
this entity surface form:
Meghna River
this entity surface form:
Meghna River
this entity surface form:
Meghna River system
this entity surface form:
Meghna River
this entity surface form:
Meghna River system
this entity surface form:
Meghna River basin
this entity surface form:
Meghna River system