Macquarie River
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The Macquarie River is a major inland river in New South Wales, Australia, flowing through traditional Wiradjuri country and forming part of the Murray–Darling Basin.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Macquarie River canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6892558 — 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: Macquarie River Context triple: [Wiradhuri, hasNotableRiverAssociation, Macquarie River]
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A.
Murray River
The Murray River is Australia's longest river, forming much of the border between New South Wales and Victoria and serving as a vital waterway for agriculture, ecosystems, and communities in southeastern Australia.
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B.
Murchison River
The Murchison River is a major river in Western Australia known for its rugged gorges, arid outback landscapes, and significance to both Indigenous heritage and regional exploration history.
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C.
Bellamy River
The Bellamy River is a tidal river in southeastern New Hampshire that flows through the city of Dover before joining the Piscataqua River system.
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D.
Drac River
The Drac River is a major watercourse in southeastern France that flows through the Alps and joins the Isère near Grenoble.
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E.
Murrumbidgee River
The Murrumbidgee River is a major inland river in southeastern Australia that flows through New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory before joining the Murray River.
- 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: Macquarie River Target entity description: The Macquarie River is a major inland river in New South Wales, Australia, flowing through traditional Wiradjuri country and forming part of the Murray–Darling Basin.
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A.
Murray River
The Murray River is Australia's longest river, forming much of the border between New South Wales and Victoria and serving as a vital waterway for agriculture, ecosystems, and communities in southeastern Australia.
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B.
Murchison River
The Murchison River is a major river in Western Australia known for its rugged gorges, arid outback landscapes, and significance to both Indigenous heritage and regional exploration history.
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C.
Bellamy River
The Bellamy River is a tidal river in southeastern New Hampshire that flows through the city of Dover before joining the Piscataqua River system.
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D.
Drac River
The Drac River is a major watercourse in southeastern France that flows through the Alps and joins the Isère near Grenoble.
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E.
Murrumbidgee River
The Murrumbidgee River is a major inland river in southeastern Australia that flows through New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory before joining the Murray River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
inland river
ⓘ
river ⓘ |
| basinCountry | Australia ⓘ |
| country | Australia ⓘ |
| crossedBy |
Great Western Highway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mitchell Highway NERFINISHED ⓘ Newell Highway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| drainageBasin | Murray–Darling Basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flowsGenerally | north-west ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
Bathurst
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dubbo NERFINISHED ⓘ Narromine NERFINISHED ⓘ Warren NERFINISHED ⓘ Wellington NERFINISHED ⓘ Wiradjuri country NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCatchment | Macquarie–Castlereagh catchment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDam | Burrendong Dam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMajorTownOnBanks |
Bathurst
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dubbo NERFINISHED ⓘ Warren NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasReservoir | Lake Burrendong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTributary |
Bell River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bogan River NERFINISHED ⓘ Coolbaggie Creek NERFINISHED ⓘ Cudgegong River NERFINISHED ⓘ Little River NERFINISHED ⓘ Talbragar River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWetland | Macquarie Marshes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isMajorInlandRiverOf | New South Wales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Australia
ⓘ
New South Wales ⓘ |
| mouth | Barwon River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mouthLocation | near Brewarrina ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Lachlan Macquarie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedFor | Lachlan Macquarie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Murray–Darling Basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region |
Central West New South Wales
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Orana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| riverSystem | Murray–Darling river system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sourceLocation | near Oberon ⓘ |
| sourceRegion | Central Tablelands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | New South Wales ⓘ |
| supportsEcosystem | Macquarie Marshes wetlands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| traditionalLandsOf | Wiradjuri people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
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: Macquarie River Description of subject: The Macquarie River is a major inland river in New South Wales, Australia, flowing through traditional Wiradjuri country and forming part of the Murray–Darling Basin.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.