Macaé River
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The Macaé River is a watercourse in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, known for flowing through the municipality of Macaé and playing an important role in the region’s ecology and water supply.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Macaé River canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10722764 — 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: Macaé River Context triple: [Macaé, hasRiver, Macaé River]
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A.
Cravo Sur River
The Cravo Sur River is a significant waterway in eastern Colombia that flows through the Llanos region, supporting local ecosystems and communities in the Casanare area.
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B.
Paranoá River
The Paranoá River is a watercourse in Brazil’s Federal District that feeds and helps sustain the artificial Paranoá Lake near Brasília.
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C.
Pelotas River
The Pelotas River is a significant river in southern Brazil that forms part of the Uruguay River system and helps define sections of the border between Brazilian states.
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D.
Gurgueia River
The Gurgueia River is a significant river in the Brazilian state of Piauí, serving as an important waterway for the region’s ecosystems and local communities.
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E.
Canoas River
The Canoas River is a significant waterway in southern Brazil that joins with the Pelotas River to form the Uruguay River, an important river of the Southern Cone.
- 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: Macaé River Target entity description: The Macaé River is a watercourse in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, known for flowing through the municipality of Macaé and playing an important role in the region’s ecology and water supply.
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A.
Cravo Sur River
The Cravo Sur River is a significant waterway in eastern Colombia that flows through the Llanos region, supporting local ecosystems and communities in the Casanare area.
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B.
Paranoá River
The Paranoá River is a watercourse in Brazil’s Federal District that feeds and helps sustain the artificial Paranoá Lake near Brasília.
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C.
Pelotas River
The Pelotas River is a significant river in southern Brazil that forms part of the Uruguay River system and helps define sections of the border between Brazilian states.
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D.
Gurgueia River
The Gurgueia River is a significant river in the Brazilian state of Piauí, serving as an important waterway for the region’s ecosystems and local communities.
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E.
Canoas River
The Canoas River is a significant waterway in southern Brazil that joins with the Pelotas River to form the Uruguay River, an important river of the Southern Cone.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | river ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Municipality of Macaé NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basinCountry | Brazil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | South America ⓘ |
| country | Brazil ⓘ |
| drainageBasin | Atlantic coastal drainage of Rio de Janeiro ⓘ |
| flowsThrough | Municipality of Macaé NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEcologicalRole |
contributes to estuarine environments on the Atlantic coast
ⓘ
supports regional biodiversity ⓘ supports riparian ecosystems ⓘ |
| hasMouthIn | Atlantic Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNameInLanguage | Rio Macaé NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| importantFor |
environmental conservation in the Macaé region
ⓘ
local economy of Macaé ⓘ local water security ⓘ |
| languageOfToponym | Portuguese ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Southeast Region of Brazil
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
State of Rio de Janeiro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mouthLocatedIn | State of Rio de Janeiro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near | Macaé urban area ⓘ |
| partOf | coastal river systems of Rio de Janeiro ⓘ |
| region | Northern coast of Rio de Janeiro state ⓘ |
| typeOfWaterBody | freshwater river ⓘ |
| usedFor |
fishing
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irrigation ⓘ recreation ⓘ water supply ⓘ |
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: Macaé River Description of subject: The Macaé River is a watercourse in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, known for flowing through the municipality of Macaé and playing an important role in the region’s ecology and water supply.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.