Couesnon River
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The Couesnon River is a watercourse in northwestern France that flows through Brittany and Normandy before emptying into the Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel near the famous island abbey.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Couesnon River canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7340906 — 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: Couesnon River Context triple: [Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel, mouthOf, Couesnon River]
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A.
Assineau River
The Assineau River is a small river in north-central Alberta, Canada, that drains surrounding forested and rural areas before emptying into Lesser Slave Lake.
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B.
Gers River
The Gers River is a waterway in southwestern France that flows through the Gers department, including the town of Auch, before joining the Garonne River.
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C.
Santoire River
The Santoire River is a watercourse in south-central France that flows through the Cantal region, collecting runoff from the surrounding mountainous terrain.
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D.
Cisadane River
The Cisadane River is a major river in western Java, Indonesia, flowing from the mountains through Bogor and Tangerang before emptying into the Java Sea.
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E.
Eure River
The Eure River is a tributary of the Seine in northern France that flows through the city of Chartres and several other towns in the Normandy and Centre-Val de Loire regions.
- 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: Couesnon River Target entity description: The Couesnon River is a watercourse in northwestern France that flows through Brittany and Normandy before emptying into the Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel near the famous island abbey.
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A.
Assineau River
The Assineau River is a small river in north-central Alberta, Canada, that drains surrounding forested and rural areas before emptying into Lesser Slave Lake.
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B.
Gers River
The Gers River is a waterway in southwestern France that flows through the Gers department, including the town of Auch, before joining the Garonne River.
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C.
Santoire River
The Santoire River is a watercourse in south-central France that flows through the Cantal region, collecting runoff from the surrounding mountainous terrain.
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D.
Cisadane River
The Cisadane River is a major river in western Java, Indonesia, flowing from the mountains through Bogor and Tangerang before emptying into the Java Sea.
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E.
Eure River
The Eure River is a tributary of the Seine in northern France that flows through the city of Chartres and several other towns in the Normandy and Centre-Val de Loire regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
geographical feature
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river ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Mont-Saint-Michel tidal bay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basinCountry | France ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| drainageBasin | English Channel basin ⓘ |
| emptiesInto | Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
Antrain
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Brittany NERFINISHED ⓘ Fougères NERFINISHED ⓘ Normandy NERFINISHED ⓘ Pontorson NERFINISHED ⓘ Saint-James NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formsBorderBetween |
Brittany
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Normandy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBridge | Pont de Pontaubault NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEstuary | Couesnon estuary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalRole | helped define the boundary between Brittany and Normandy ⓘ |
| knownFor |
sedimentation issues in the Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel
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strong tidal influences near its mouth ⓘ |
| languageOfToponym | French ⓘ |
| length | approximately 97 km ⓘ |
| locatedIn | northwestern France ⓘ |
| mouthLocation | Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near |
Mont-Saint-Michel
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Ille-et-Vilaine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sourceLocation |
Mayenne department
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
near Lignières-Orgères ⓘ |
| subjectOf | river regulation and restoration projects near Mont-Saint-Michel ⓘ |
| tributaryOf | Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Couesnon River Description of subject: The Couesnon River is a watercourse in northwestern France that flows through Brittany and Normandy before emptying into the Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel near the famous island abbey.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.