Jinsha River

E688166

river upper course of the Yangtze River

The Jinsha River is the upper course of China’s Yangtze River, flowing through deep gorges in western China and serving as a major source of hydropower and water resources.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Jinsha River canonical	8
Jinsha River and Min River	1

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	river ⓘ upper course of the Yangtze River ⓘ
continent	Asia ⓘ
country	China ⓘ
drainageBasin	East China Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ
flowsGenerally	from northwest to southeast ⓘ
flowsThrough	Hengduan Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ deep gorges ⓘ
formsBorderBetween	Sichuan Province and Tibet Autonomous Region NERFINISHED ⓘ Sichuan Province and Yunnan Province ⓘ Tibet Autonomous Region and Yunnan Province ⓘ
hasEnvironmentalIssue	habitat fragmentation ⓘ reservoir-induced displacement ⓘ sediment management challenges ⓘ
hasGeologicalFeature	tectonically active region ⓘ
hasHydropowerStation	Baihetan Dam NERFINISHED ⓘ Wudongde Dam NERFINISHED ⓘ Xiangjiaba Dam NERFINISHED ⓘ Xiluodu Dam NERFINISHED ⓘ
knownFor	deep canyons ⓘ large hydropower potential ⓘ steep gradient ⓘ
languageOfName	Chinese ⓘ
locatedIn	Qinghai Province NERFINISHED ⓘ Sichuan Province NERFINISHED ⓘ Yunnan Province NERFINISHED ⓘ western China NERFINISHED ⓘ
majorHydropowerSourceFor	China NERFINISHED ⓘ
mouth	confluence with Min River ⓘ confluence with Yalong River ⓘ
mouthLocation	near Yibin ⓘ
mouthProvince	Sichuan Province NERFINISHED ⓘ
nameMeaning	Golden Sand River NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	Yangtze River NERFINISHED ⓘ Yangtze River basin NERFINISHED ⓘ
passesNear	Lijiang NERFINISHED ⓘ Panzhihua NERFINISHED ⓘ Yibin NERFINISHED ⓘ
sourceRegion	eastern Tibetan Plateau NERFINISHED ⓘ
tributaryOf	Yangtze River NERFINISHED ⓘ
upstreamNameOf	Yangtze River NERFINISHED ⓘ
usedFor	hydropower generation ⓘ irrigation ⓘ navigation in some reaches ⓘ water resources ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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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: Jinsha River
Description of subject: The Jinsha River is the upper course of China’s Yangtze River, flowing through deep gorges in western China and serving as a major source of hydropower and water resources.

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Hengduan Mountains → drainedBy → Jinsha River ⓘ

Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas → containsRiver → Jinsha River ⓘ

Diqing → traversedByRiver → Jinsha River ⓘ

subject surface form: Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

Yibin → locatedOnRiver → Jinsha River ⓘ

Yibin → riverConfluence → Jinsha River ⓘ

this entity surface form: Jinsha River and Min River

Panzhihua → locatedOnRiver → Jinsha River ⓘ

Panzhihua → borderRiver → Jinsha River ⓘ

Tongtian River → mouthRiver → Jinsha River ⓘ

Tongtian River → upstreamNameOf → Jinsha River ⓘ