河
E484683
河 is a common Chinese character meaning “river,” frequently used in place names and everyday vocabulary.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 河 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4975616 — 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: 河 Context triple: [He (surname), scriptForm, 河]
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A.
Wu River
The Wu River is a significant river in southwestern China known for flowing through deep gorges and contributing substantially to the Yangtze River system.
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B.
Jialing River
The Jialing River is a significant river in southwestern China that flows through Sichuan and Chongqing, contributing heavily to the region’s water resources, transportation, and ecology.
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C.
Huai River
The Huai River is a major river in eastern China that historically served as a key geographical and cultural boundary between northern and southern China.
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D.
Luo River
The Luo River is a significant tributary in central China that flows through Henan and Shaanxi provinces before joining the Yellow River.
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E.
Wang River
The Wang River is one of the four major rivers of northern Thailand that join to form the Chao Phraya River, playing an important role in the region’s agriculture and water resources.
- 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: 河 Target entity description: 河 is a common Chinese character meaning “river,” frequently used in place names and everyday vocabulary.
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A.
Wu River
The Wu River is a significant river in southwestern China known for flowing through deep gorges and contributing substantially to the Yangtze River system.
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B.
Jialing River
The Jialing River is a significant river in southwestern China that flows through Sichuan and Chongqing, contributing heavily to the region’s water resources, transportation, and ecology.
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C.
Huai River
The Huai River is a major river in eastern China that historically served as a key geographical and cultural boundary between northern and southern China.
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D.
Luo River
The Luo River is a significant tributary in central China that flows through Henan and Shaanxi provinces before joining the Yellow River.
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E.
Wang River
The Wang River is one of the four major rivers of northern Thailand that join to form the Chao Phraya River, playing an important role in the region’s agriculture and water resources.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese character
ⓘ
logogram ⓘ |
| block | CJK Unified Ideographs ⓘ |
| bopomofo | ㄏㄜˊ ⓘ |
| cangjieInput | EHR ⓘ |
| cantoneseJyutping | ho4 ⓘ |
| cantoneseYale | hòh ⓘ |
| componentOfWord |
河口
ⓘ
河岸 ⓘ 河水 ⓘ 河流 ⓘ 银河 ⓘ 长河 ⓘ 黄河 ⓘ |
| dictionaryIndexKangxi | 85-35 ⓘ |
| etymologicalType | phono-semantic compound ⓘ |
| frequencyCategory | commonly used character ⓘ |
| gradeLevelInJapan | Jōyō kanji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOppositeConcept |
海 (sea)
ⓘ
湖 (lake) ⓘ |
| isUsedInEverydayVocabulary | true ⓘ |
| japaneseKunReading | かわ (kawa) ⓘ |
| japaneseOnReading |
カ (ka)
ⓘ
ガ (ga) ⓘ |
| jlptLevel | N2 ⓘ |
| koreanReading | 하 (ha) ⓘ |
| languageUsage |
Cantonese
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Japanese ⓘ Korean ⓘ Mandarin Chinese NERFINISHED ⓘ Vietnamese (Sino-Vietnamese) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mandarinPinyin | hé ⓘ |
| mandarinTone | second tone ⓘ |
| meaning | river ⓘ |
| phoneticComponent | 可 ⓘ |
| radical | 氵 ⓘ |
| radicalMeaning | water ⓘ |
| script | Han script NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| semanticComponent | 氵 ⓘ |
| semanticField |
geography
ⓘ
waterway ⓘ |
| simplifiedForm | 河 ⓘ |
| sinoVietnameseReading | hà ⓘ |
| strokeCount | 8 ⓘ |
| traditionalForm | 河 ⓘ |
| unicodeCodePoint | U+6CB3 ⓘ |
| usedInToponyms |
Han River (汉江/韓河 in some contexts)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Yellow River (黄河) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Chinese ⓘ |
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: 河 Description of subject: 河 is a common Chinese character meaning “river,” frequently used in place names and everyday vocabulary.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
He (surname)