Fulda River
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The Fulda River is a major river in central Germany that flows through the state of Hesse and joins the Werra River at Hann. Münden to form the Weser.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fulda River canonical | 5 |
| Fulda River at Edermünde | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7269768 — 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: Fulda River Context triple: [Fulda, locatedOnRiver, Fulda River]
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A.
Schwalm River
The Schwalm River is a waterway in the German state of Hesse that lends its name to the surrounding Schwalm-Eder region.
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B.
Wiese River
The Wiese River is a tributary of the Rhine flowing through parts of Germany and Switzerland, including the municipality of Riehen near Basel.
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C.
Schwabach River
The Schwabach River is a small river in Bavaria, Germany, that flows through the town of Schwabach before joining the Rednitz River.
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D.
Würm River
The Würm River is a small river in Bavaria, Germany, known for flowing north from Lake Starnberg through towns such as Gauting and Starnberg before joining the Amper River.
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E.
Sorpe River
The Sorpe River is a watercourse in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, known primarily as the river impounded by the Sorpe Dam to form the Sorpesee reservoir.
- 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: Fulda River Target entity description: The Fulda River is a major river in central Germany that flows through the state of Hesse and joins the Werra River at Hann. Münden to form the Weser.
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A.
Schwalm River
The Schwalm River is a waterway in the German state of Hesse that lends its name to the surrounding Schwalm-Eder region.
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B.
Wiese River
The Wiese River is a tributary of the Rhine flowing through parts of Germany and Switzerland, including the municipality of Riehen near Basel.
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C.
Schwabach River
The Schwabach River is a small river in Bavaria, Germany, that flows through the town of Schwabach before joining the Rednitz River.
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D.
Würm River
The Würm River is a small river in Bavaria, Germany, known for flowing north from Lake Starnberg through towns such as Gauting and Starnberg before joining the Amper River.
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E.
Sorpe River
The Sorpe River is a watercourse in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, known primarily as the river impounded by the Sorpe Dam to form the Sorpesee reservoir.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
geographical feature
ⓘ
river ⓘ |
| basinSize | 6947 km² ⓘ |
| confluenceWith | Werra River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crosses | German Central Uplands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dischargeLocation | Hann. Münden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| drainageBasin | North Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flowsDirection | generally northward ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
Bad Hersfeld
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hann. Münden NERFINISHED ⓘ Hesse NERFINISHED ⓘ Kassel NERFINISHED ⓘ Melsungen NERFINISHED ⓘ Rotenburg an der Fulda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| forms | Weser River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBridge | Kassel bridges over Fulda ⓘ |
| hasCycleRouteAlong | Fulda Cycle Route (Fuldaradweg) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLeftTributary |
Diemel River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Losse River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNameOrigin | named after city of Fulda region ⓘ |
| hasRailwayAlong | Fulda Valley Railway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRightTributary |
Eder River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Haune River NERFINISHED ⓘ Schwalm River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasValley | Fuldatal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| length | 220 km ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Hesse
ⓘ
Lower Saxony ⓘ Thuringia ⓘ central Germany ⓘ |
| mouth | Weser River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mouthLocation | Hann. Münden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| navigableInSection | lower course near Kassel ⓘ |
| partOf | German river network ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
Fulda (city)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kassel district NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Central Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| riverSystem | Weser River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sourceLocation |
Rhön Mountains
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wasserkuppe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sourceRegion | Hesse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tributaryOf | Weser River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
hydropower
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inland navigation ⓘ 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: Fulda River Description of subject: The Fulda River is a major river in central Germany that flows through the state of Hesse and joins the Werra River at Hann. Münden to form the Weser.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Fulda River at Edermünde