upper Mahakam River
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The upper Mahakam River is a remote upriver region of the Mahakam in East Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, known for its indigenous Dayak communities and their traditional river-based way of life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| upper Mahakam River canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8850862 — 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: upper Mahakam River Context triple: [Mahakam languages, areSpokenAlong, upper Mahakam River]
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A.
Borne River
Borne River is a small alpine river in southeastern France that flows through the Haute-Savoie region before joining the Arve River.
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B.
Sarawak River
The Sarawak River is a key waterway in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, flowing through Kuching and serving as an important route for transport, commerce, and tourism.
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C.
Kapuas River
The Kapuas River is the longest river in Indonesia and one of the major waterways of Borneo, flowing through dense tropical rainforest and supporting rich biodiversity and local communities.
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D.
Kinabatangan River
The Kinabatangan River is the longest river in Sabah, Malaysia, renowned for its rich biodiversity and wildlife-filled floodplains and rainforests.
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E.
Barito River
The Barito River is one of the largest and longest rivers in Borneo, flowing through the Indonesian province of South Kalimantan and serving as a vital transportation and economic lifeline for the region.
- 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: upper Mahakam River Target entity description: The upper Mahakam River is a remote upriver region of the Mahakam in East Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, known for its indigenous Dayak communities and their traditional river-based way of life.
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A.
Borne River
Borne River is a small alpine river in southeastern France that flows through the Haute-Savoie region before joining the Arve River.
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B.
Sarawak River
The Sarawak River is a key waterway in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, flowing through Kuching and serving as an important route for transport, commerce, and tourism.
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C.
Kapuas River
The Kapuas River is the longest river in Indonesia and one of the major waterways of Borneo, flowing through dense tropical rainforest and supporting rich biodiversity and local communities.
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D.
Kinabatangan River
The Kinabatangan River is the longest river in Sabah, Malaysia, renowned for its rich biodiversity and wildlife-filled floodplains and rainforests.
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E.
Barito River
The Barito River is one of the largest and longest rivers in Borneo, flowing through the Indonesian province of South Kalimantan and serving as a vital transportation and economic lifeline for the region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | river region ⓘ |
| administrativeRegion | East Kalimantan Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characteristic |
heavily forested
ⓘ
limited road access ⓘ sparsely populated ⓘ |
| climate |
equatorial climate
ⓘ
high rainfall ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision | Kalimantan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culturalRegion | Dayak cultural area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| drainageBasin | Makassar Strait NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| economicActivity |
fishing
ⓘ
small-scale forestry ⓘ subsistence agriculture ⓘ |
| ecosystem | tropical rainforest ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Dayak people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flowsThrough | interior of East Kalimantan ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
floodplain areas
ⓘ
rapids and narrow channels ⓘ riverine villages ⓘ |
| hydrologicalSystem | Mahakam River basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Borneo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
indigenous Dayak communities
ⓘ
longhouse villages ⓘ remote upriver settlements ⓘ river-based way of life ⓘ traditional river transport ⓘ tropical rainforest environment ⓘ |
| languageRegion | Dayak languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
East Kalimantan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Indonesia ⓘ Indonesian Borneo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Mahakam River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryAccess | river transport ⓘ |
| religionRegion |
Christianity among Dayak communities
ⓘ
Islam among riverine populations ⓘ indigenous Dayak beliefs ⓘ |
| threat |
deforestation in surrounding areas
ⓘ
logging activities in the region ⓘ |
| tourismType |
cultural tourism
ⓘ
river expeditions ⓘ |
| traditionalHousing | Dayak longhouses NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| transportMode |
longboats
ⓘ
motorized canoes ⓘ |
| upstreamOf | middle Mahakam River ⓘ |
| watercourse | Mahakam River 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: upper Mahakam River Description of subject: The upper Mahakam River is a remote upriver region of the Mahakam in East Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, known for its indigenous Dayak communities and their traditional river-based way of life.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.