River Stour
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The River Stour is a major river in southeast England that flows through the county of Kent, passing historic towns such as Canterbury before reaching the English Channel.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| River Stour canonical | 14 |
| River Stour, Kent | 4 |
| Great Stour | 2 |
| River Great Stour | 2 |
| River Stour (Kent) | 2 |
| River Stour at Sandwich | 1 |
| River Stour system | 1 |
| Stour | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T290379 — 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: River Stour Context triple: [Kent, contains, River Stour]
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A.
River Witham
River Witham is a major river in Lincolnshire, England, flowing through several towns and cities before reaching The Wash on the North Sea coast.
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B.
River Great Ouse
The River Great Ouse is one of the major rivers in eastern England, flowing through several counties and historic towns before reaching The Wash on the North Sea.
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C.
River Yare
The River Yare is a major river in Norfolk, England, flowing through the Norfolk Broads to the North Sea and historically serving as an important navigation and trade route.
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D.
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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E.
River Spodden
River Spodden is a river in Lancashire and Greater Manchester, England, flowing through the South Pennines and the town of Bacup before joining the River Roch.
- 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: River Stour Target entity description: The River Stour is a major river in southeast England that flows through the county of Kent, passing historic towns such as Canterbury before reaching the English Channel.
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A.
River Witham
River Witham is a major river in Lincolnshire, England, flowing through several towns and cities before reaching The Wash on the North Sea coast.
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B.
River Great Ouse
The River Great Ouse is one of the major rivers in eastern England, flowing through several counties and historic towns before reaching The Wash on the North Sea.
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C.
River Yare
The River Yare is a major river in Norfolk, England, flowing through the Norfolk Broads to the North Sea and historically serving as an important navigation and trade route.
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D.
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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E.
River Spodden
River Spodden is a river in Lancashire and Greater Manchester, England, flowing through the South Pennines and the town of Bacup before joining the River Roch.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: River Stour Description of subject: The River Stour is a major river in southeast England that flows through the county of Kent, passing historic towns such as Canterbury before reaching the English Channel.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
River Stour (Kent)
this entity surface form:
Great Stour
subject surface form:
River Stour (Kent)
this entity surface form:
Stour
this entity surface form:
River Stour, Kent
this entity surface form:
River Stour at Sandwich
this entity surface form:
River Stour (Kent)
this entity surface form:
River Stour, Kent
this entity surface form:
River Stour (Kent)
this entity surface form:
River Stour, Kent
this entity surface form:
River Stour system
this entity surface form:
River Stour, Kent
this entity surface form:
River Great Stour