Kedah River
E866915
The Kedah River is a significant waterway in the Malaysian state of Kedah, flowing through its capital city Alor Setar and supporting local agriculture, transport, and settlement.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kedah River canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10486537 — 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: Kedah River Context triple: [Alor Setar, hasRiver, Kedah River]
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A.
Pahang River
The Pahang River is one of Peninsular Malaysia’s longest and most significant rivers, flowing through the state of Pahang and serving as an important waterway for transport, agriculture, and local communities.
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B.
Kelantan River
The Kelantan River is a major waterway in northeastern Peninsular Malaysia that flows through the state of Kelantan into the South China Sea, playing a key role in the region’s ecology, agriculture, and settlements.
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C.
Terengganu River
The Terengganu River is a significant waterway in the Malaysian state of Terengganu, flowing through Kuala Terengganu and playing an important role in local transport, fishing, and tourism.
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D.
Johor River
The Johor River is a major waterway in the southern Malaysian state of Johor, historically significant as a strategic and economic lifeline for the region.
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E.
Perak River
The Perak River is one of the longest and most important rivers in Peninsular Malaysia, flowing through the state of Perak and supporting its agriculture, settlements, and ecosystems.
- 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: Kedah River Target entity description: The Kedah River is a significant waterway in the Malaysian state of Kedah, flowing through its capital city Alor Setar and supporting local agriculture, transport, and settlement.
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A.
Pahang River
The Pahang River is one of Peninsular Malaysia’s longest and most significant rivers, flowing through the state of Pahang and serving as an important waterway for transport, agriculture, and local communities.
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B.
Kelantan River
The Kelantan River is a major waterway in northeastern Peninsular Malaysia that flows through the state of Kelantan into the South China Sea, playing a key role in the region’s ecology, agriculture, and settlements.
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C.
Terengganu River
The Terengganu River is a significant waterway in the Malaysian state of Terengganu, flowing through Kuala Terengganu and playing an important role in local transport, fishing, and tourism.
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D.
Johor River
The Johor River is a major waterway in the southern Malaysian state of Johor, historically significant as a strategic and economic lifeline for the region.
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E.
Perak River
The Perak River is one of the longest and most important rivers in Peninsular Malaysia, flowing through the state of Perak and supporting its agriculture, settlements, and ecosystems.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | river ⓘ |
| associatedWith | paddy cultivation in Kedah ⓘ |
| basinCountry | Malaysia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Malaysia ⓘ |
| flowsInto | Straits of Malacca near Kedah coast NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flowsThrough | Alor Setar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCapitalCityOnBanks | Alor Setar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEconomicRole |
supporting local agriculture
ⓘ
supporting riverine settlements ⓘ supporting small-scale transport ⓘ |
| hasMouthIn | Straits of Malacca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNameOrigin | Kedah state name ⓘ |
| isMajorRiverOf | Kedah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Kedah
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
northwestern Peninsular Malaysia ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | Asia ⓘ |
| near | Alor Setar urban area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | drainage system of Kedah ⓘ |
| passesNear | Kota Setar District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Kedah coastal plain ⓘ |
| supports |
agriculture in Kedah
ⓘ
human settlement ⓘ local transport ⓘ |
| usedFor |
fishing
ⓘ
inland water transport ⓘ irrigation ⓘ |
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: Kedah River Description of subject: The Kedah River is a significant waterway in the Malaysian state of Kedah, flowing through its capital city Alor Setar and supporting local agriculture, transport, and settlement.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.