river Maas
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The river Maas, also known as the Meuse, is a major European waterway flowing through France, Belgium, and the Netherlands before emptying into the North Sea.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| river Maas canonical | 7 |
| Meuse | 3 |
| River Maas | 3 |
| Meuse (Maas) | 1 |
| River Maas (via canals and distributaries) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5030423 — 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 Maas Context triple: [Middelaar, locatedNear, river Maas]
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A.
Rijn
Rijn is the Dutch name for the major European river known in English as the Rhine.
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B.
Oude Maas
The Oude Maas is a major distributary river in the western Netherlands that forms part of the complex Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta system.
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C.
Nederrijn
The Nederrijn is a major distributary branch of the Rhine River in the Netherlands, flowing through cities such as Arnhem and forming an important part of the Dutch river system.
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D.
Vaartsche Rijn
Vaartsche Rijn is a historic canal in the Dutch province of Utrecht that connects the city of Utrecht with the Lower Rhine and forms part of its inland waterway network.
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E.
Oude Rijn
Oude Rijn is a river in the western Netherlands that forms one of the main northern distributaries of the Rhine, flowing through towns such as Leiden before reaching the North Sea.
- 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 Maas Target entity description: The river Maas, also known as the Meuse, is a major European waterway flowing through France, Belgium, and the Netherlands before emptying into the North Sea.
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A.
Rijn
Rijn is the Dutch name for the major European river known in English as the Rhine.
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B.
Oude Maas
The Oude Maas is a major distributary river in the western Netherlands that forms part of the complex Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta system.
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C.
Nederrijn
The Nederrijn is a major distributary branch of the Rhine River in the Netherlands, flowing through cities such as Arnhem and forming an important part of the Dutch river system.
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D.
Vaartsche Rijn
Vaartsche Rijn is a historic canal in the Dutch province of Utrecht that connects the city of Utrecht with the Lower Rhine and forms part of its inland waterway network.
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E.
Oude Rijn
Oude Rijn is a river in the western Netherlands that forms one of the main northern distributaries of the Rhine, flowing through towns such as Leiden before reaching the North Sea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | river ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Meuse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basinArea | approximately 34,500 km² ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
Belgium
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
France ⓘ Germany ⓘ Netherlands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
Belgium
ⓘ
France ⓘ Netherlands ⓘ |
| dischargesInto | North Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| emptiesNear | Hook of Holland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
Belgium
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dinant NERFINISHED ⓘ France NERFINISHED ⓘ Liège NERFINISHED ⓘ Maastricht NERFINISHED ⓘ Namur NERFINISHED ⓘ Netherlands NERFINISHED ⓘ Roermond NERFINISHED ⓘ Rotterdam region NERFINISHED ⓘ Venlo NERFINISHED ⓘ ’s-Hertogenbosch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formsBorderBetween |
Belgium
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Netherlands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFloodRisk | high in lower basin ⓘ |
| hasMajorTributary |
Geul
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lesse NERFINISHED ⓘ Ourthe NERFINISHED ⓘ Roer NERFINISHED ⓘ Sambre NERFINISHED ⓘ Vesdre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageNameDutch | Maas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageNameFrench | Meuse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageNameGerman | Maas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| length | approximately 925 km ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Western Europe ⓘ |
| mouth | North Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mouthLocation | Netherlands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Rhine–Meuse delta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regulation | heavily regulated and canalised in parts ⓘ |
| sourceLocation | near Pouilly-en-Bassigny ⓘ |
| sourceRegion | Langres Plateau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tributaryOf | Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
drinking water supply
ⓘ
hydropower ⓘ inland navigation ⓘ irrigation ⓘ recreation ⓘ shipping ⓘ |
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 Maas Description of subject: The river Maas, also known as the Meuse, is a major European waterway flowing through France, Belgium, and the Netherlands before emptying into the North Sea.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Meuse (Maas)
this entity surface form:
River Maas
this entity surface form:
River Maas
this entity surface form:
Meuse
this entity surface form:
Meuse
this entity surface form:
Meuse
this entity surface form:
River Maas
this entity surface form:
River Maas (via canals and distributaries)