Alte Donau
E430181
Alte Donau is a former branch of the Danube River in Vienna that now serves as a popular recreational lake for swimming, boating, and waterside leisure.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Little Danube | 3 |
| Alte Donau canonical | 2 |
| New Danube | 2 |
| Old Danube | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3775475 — 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: Alte Donau Context triple: [Kaisermühlen, adjacentTo, Alte Donau]
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A.
Traisen
Traisen is a river in northeastern Austria that flows through Lower Austria before joining the Danube.
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B.
Salzach River
The Salzach River is a major river in Austria and Germany that flows through the city of Salzburg and forms part of the border between the two countries.
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C.
Elbe
The Elbe is one of Central Europe's major rivers, flowing from the Czech Republic through Germany to the North Sea and serving as an important waterway for transport, industry, and agriculture.
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D.
Traun River
The Traun River is a major tributary of the Danube in Austria, flowing through the Salzkammergut lake district and the state of Upper Austria.
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E.
Saale
The Saale is a major river in central Germany that flows through the states of Thuringia, Saxony-Anhalt, and Bavaria before joining the Elbe.
- 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: Alte Donau Target entity description: Alte Donau is a former branch of the Danube River in Vienna that now serves as a popular recreational lake for swimming, boating, and waterside leisure.
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A.
Traisen
Traisen is a river in northeastern Austria that flows through Lower Austria before joining the Danube.
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B.
Salzach River
The Salzach River is a major river in Austria and Germany that flows through the city of Salzburg and forms part of the border between the two countries.
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C.
Elbe
The Elbe is one of Central Europe's major rivers, flowing from the Czech Republic through Germany to the North Sea and serving as an important waterway for transport, industry, and agriculture.
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D.
Traun River
The Traun River is a major tributary of the Danube in Austria, flowing through the Salzkammergut lake district and the state of Upper Austria.
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E.
Saale
The Saale is a major river in central Germany that flows through the states of Thuringia, Saxony-Anhalt, and Bavaria before joining the Elbe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
oxbow lake
ⓘ
recreational lake ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| country | Austria ⓘ |
| hasAccessType | public access ⓘ |
| hasActivitySeason | bathing season from late spring to early autumn ⓘ |
| hasEcologicalCharacteristic |
supports aquatic plants
ⓘ
supports waterfowl ⓘ urban wetland habitat ⓘ |
| hasInfrastructure |
piers and jetties
ⓘ
rowing and sailing clubs ⓘ |
| hasNearbyLandmark |
Donaupark
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Donauturm (Danube Tower) NERFINISHED ⓘ Donauzentrum shopping center NERFINISHED ⓘ Vienna International Centre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyPublicTransport |
U1 Alte Donau station
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U1 Kagran station NERFINISHED ⓘ U1 Kaisermühlen–VIC station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRecreationSeason | summer peak season ⓘ |
| hasReputation |
attraction for tourists visiting Vienna
ⓘ
popular local recreation area for Vienna residents ⓘ |
| hasSafetyFeature |
designated bathing areas
ⓘ
lifeguard-supervised lidos ⓘ |
| hasShoreFeature |
boat rental stations
ⓘ
cafés ⓘ cycling paths ⓘ private bathing areas ⓘ public lidos ⓘ restaurants ⓘ walking paths ⓘ |
| hasUse |
boating
ⓘ
ice skating (in winter, when conditions allow) ⓘ recreational fishing ⓘ sailing ⓘ stand-up paddling ⓘ swimming ⓘ waterside leisure ⓘ |
| hasWaterType | freshwater ⓘ |
| isManagedBy | City of Vienna NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Vienna
ⓘ
district Donaustadt ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | federal state of Vienna ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
| locatedNear | district Floridsdorf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Danube River system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| separatedFrom | New Danube NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| watercourseOrigin | former branch of the Danube ⓘ |
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: Alte Donau Description of subject: Alte Donau is a former branch of the Danube River in Vienna that now serves as a popular recreational lake for swimming, boating, and waterside leisure.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Kaisermühlen
this entity surface form:
Little Danube
this entity surface form:
Little Danube
this entity surface form:
Little Danube
this entity surface form:
New Danube
this entity surface form:
New Danube
this entity surface form:
Old Danube