Macleay River
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The Macleay River is a major river on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales, Australia, flowing through rural towns and valleys before reaching the Pacific Ocean.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Macleay River canonical | 7 |
| Macleay River (upper tributaries collectively) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2649351 — 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: Macleay River Context triple: [Kempsey, locatedOnRiver, Macleay River]
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A.
McKenzie River
The McKenzie River is a major, cold, clear river in western Oregon renowned for its scenic beauty, recreation opportunities, and role in supplying water and hydroelectric power.
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B.
Warta River
The Warta River is a major river in western and central Poland, flowing through cities such as Poznań before joining the Oder River.
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C.
Pedlar River
The Pedlar River is a scenic waterway in central Virginia known for flowing through the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains and supporting local recreation and wildlife habitats.
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D.
Canning River
The Canning River is a significant waterway in Western Australia that flows through Perth’s southeastern suburbs before joining the Swan River.
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E.
Manning River
The Manning River is a major coastal river system in New South Wales, Australia, known for its extensive estuary, multiple river mouths, and importance to regional agriculture, fisheries, and recreation.
- 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: Macleay River Target entity description: The Macleay River is a major river on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales, Australia, flowing through rural towns and valleys before reaching the Pacific Ocean.
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A.
McKenzie River
The McKenzie River is a major, cold, clear river in western Oregon renowned for its scenic beauty, recreation opportunities, and role in supplying water and hydroelectric power.
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B.
Warta River
The Warta River is a major river in western and central Poland, flowing through cities such as Poznań before joining the Oder River.
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C.
Pedlar River
The Pedlar River is a scenic waterway in central Virginia known for flowing through the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains and supporting local recreation and wildlife habitats.
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D.
Canning River
The Canning River is a significant waterway in Western Australia that flows through Perth’s southeastern suburbs before joining the Swan River.
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E.
Manning River
The Manning River is a major coastal river system in New South Wales, Australia, known for its extensive estuary, multiple river mouths, and importance to regional agriculture, fisheries, and recreation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | river ⓘ |
| basinSize | approximately 11,450 square kilometres ⓘ |
| continent | Australia ⓘ |
| country | Australia ⓘ |
| ecoregion | New South Wales North Coast NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flowsDirection | generally east ⓘ |
| flowsInto | Pacific Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
Bellbrook
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Frederickton NERFINISHED ⓘ Georges Creek NERFINISHED ⓘ Jerseyville NERFINISHED ⓘ Kempsey NERFINISHED ⓘ Smithtown NERFINISHED ⓘ South West Rocks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flowsThroughLocalGovernmentArea | Kempsey Shire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBridge | Kempsey traffic bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCatchmentUse |
conservation areas
ⓘ
forestry ⓘ grazing ⓘ |
| hasEstuary | Macleay River estuary ⓘ |
| hasFloodHistory | subject to major flooding ⓘ |
| hasTributary |
Apsley River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Belmore River NERFINISHED ⓘ Chandler River NERFINISHED ⓘ Clybucca Creek NERFINISHED ⓘ Georges Creek NERFINISHED ⓘ Kunderang Brook NERFINISHED ⓘ Maria River NERFINISHED ⓘ Styx River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| length | approximately 298 kilometres ⓘ |
| locatedIn | New South Wales ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Mid North Coast NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mouthElevation | 0 metres ⓘ |
| mouthLocation |
South West Rocks
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Trial Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Alexander Macleay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Macleay Valley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
agricultural land ⓘ rural areas ⓘ |
| region | Mid North Coast of New South Wales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| riverSystem | Macleay River catchment ⓘ |
| sourceLocation |
Great Dividing Range
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Northern Tablelands NERFINISHED ⓘ near Uralla ⓘ |
| state | New South Wales ⓘ |
| usedFor |
boating
ⓘ
fishing ⓘ 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: Macleay River Description of subject: The Macleay River is a major river on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales, Australia, flowing through rural towns and valleys before reaching the Pacific Ocean.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Gladstone, New South Wales
this entity surface form:
Macleay River (upper tributaries collectively)