Mahabad River
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Mahabad River is a river in northwestern Iran that flows through the city of Mahabad and into Lake Urmia, playing an important role in the region’s agriculture and water supply.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mahabad River canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11134367 — 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: Mahabad River Context triple: [Mahabad, hasRiver, Mahabad River]
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A.
Khorramabad River
The Khorramabad River is a waterway flowing through the city of Khorramabad in western Iran, contributing to the region’s landscape, agriculture, and local ecosystem.
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B.
Zarrineh River
The Zarrineh River is a major river in northwestern Iran that serves as one of the principal freshwater sources flowing into Lake Urmia.
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C.
Karaj River
The Karaj River is a major river in northern Iran that flows through Alborz Province and supplies water and hydroelectric power to the Tehran region.
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D.
Shahrud River
The Shahrud River is a major river in northern Iran that serves as one of the principal headwaters of the Sefid-Rud, flowing through mountainous terrain before joining other streams on their way to the Caspian Sea.
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E.
Qom River
The Qom River is a significant river in central Iran that flows through the city of Qom and contributes to the region’s agriculture and water supply.
- 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: Mahabad River Target entity description: Mahabad River is a river in northwestern Iran that flows through the city of Mahabad and into Lake Urmia, playing an important role in the region’s agriculture and water supply.
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A.
Khorramabad River
The Khorramabad River is a waterway flowing through the city of Khorramabad in western Iran, contributing to the region’s landscape, agriculture, and local ecosystem.
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B.
Zarrineh River
The Zarrineh River is a major river in northwestern Iran that serves as one of the principal freshwater sources flowing into Lake Urmia.
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C.
Karaj River
The Karaj River is a major river in northern Iran that flows through Alborz Province and supplies water and hydroelectric power to the Tehran region.
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D.
Shahrud River
The Shahrud River is a major river in northern Iran that serves as one of the principal headwaters of the Sefid-Rud, flowing through mountainous terrain before joining other streams on their way to the Caspian Sea.
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E.
Qom River
The Qom River is a significant river in central Iran that flows through the city of Qom and contributes to the region’s agriculture and water supply.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | river ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Iran ⓘ |
| crosses | Mahabad plain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| drainageBasin | endorheic basin of Lake Urmia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flowsInto | Lake Urmia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flowsThrough | Mahabad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEconomicImportance |
livestock farming
ⓘ
local agriculture ⓘ |
| hasEnvironmentalIssue |
reduced flow due to drought
ⓘ
sedimentation ⓘ water abstraction for irrigation ⓘ water quality degradation ⓘ |
| hasHydrologicalRole | regional water resource ⓘ |
| hasMouthElevation | Lake Urmia water level ⓘ |
| languageOfToponym |
Kurdish
ⓘ
Persian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Middle East
ⓘ
West Azerbaijan Province NERFINISHED ⓘ northwestern Iran ⓘ |
| near | Mahabad Dam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Lake Urmia basin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Urmia Lake watershed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Iranian Kurdistan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
agricultural water supply
ⓘ
drinking water supply ⓘ irrigation ⓘ |
| waterSourceFor |
Mahabad
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
surrounding rural areas ⓘ |
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: Mahabad River Description of subject: Mahabad River is a river in northwestern Iran that flows through the city of Mahabad and into Lake Urmia, playing an important role in the region’s agriculture and water supply.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.