Nieuwe Merwede
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Nieuwe Merwede is a major distributary of the Rhine–Meuse river system in the Netherlands, flowing along the edge of the Biesbosch wetlands and helping to drain water toward the North Sea.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nieuwe Merwede canonical | 5 |
| Merwede | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T809377 — 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: Nieuwe Merwede Context triple: [Biesbosch, hasWaterBody, Nieuwe Merwede]
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A.
Zwartewaal
Zwartewaal is a small village in the western Netherlands, located in the province of South Holland.
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B.
Nieuwe Maas
The Nieuwe Maas is a major distributary of the Rhine and Meuse rivers flowing through Rotterdam in the Netherlands, forming an important part of the region’s busy inland waterway network.
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C.
Brouwersdam
Brouwersdam is a major Dutch dam and causeway in the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta, built as part of the Delta Works to protect the Netherlands from North Sea flooding while supporting road traffic and water management.
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D.
Reimerswaal
Reimerswaal is a coastal municipality in the Dutch province of Zeeland, known for its agricultural landscape and location along the Eastern Scheldt estuary.
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E.
Nieuwe Waterweg
Nieuwe Waterweg is a major artificial ship canal in the Netherlands that provides a direct deep-water connection between the North Sea and the port of Rotterdam.
- 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: Nieuwe Merwede Target entity description: Nieuwe Merwede is a major distributary of the Rhine–Meuse river system in the Netherlands, flowing along the edge of the Biesbosch wetlands and helping to drain water toward the North Sea.
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A.
Zwartewaal
Zwartewaal is a small village in the western Netherlands, located in the province of South Holland.
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B.
Nieuwe Maas
The Nieuwe Maas is a major distributary of the Rhine and Meuse rivers flowing through Rotterdam in the Netherlands, forming an important part of the region’s busy inland waterway network.
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C.
Brouwersdam
Brouwersdam is a major Dutch dam and causeway in the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta, built as part of the Delta Works to protect the Netherlands from North Sea flooding while supporting road traffic and water management.
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D.
Reimerswaal
Reimerswaal is a coastal municipality in the Dutch province of Zeeland, known for its agricultural landscape and location along the Eastern Scheldt estuary.
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E.
Nieuwe Waterweg
Nieuwe Waterweg is a major artificial ship canal in the Netherlands that provides a direct deep-water connection between the North Sea and the port of Rotterdam.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
distributary
ⓘ
river ⓘ |
| connectedTo |
Amer River
ⓘ
Bergsche Maas ⓘ |
| country | Netherlands ⓘ |
| flowsDirection | generally westward ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
province of North Brabant
ⓘ
province of South Holland ⓘ |
| followsAlong |
National Park De Biesbosch
ⓘ
surface form:
Biesbosch wetlands
|
| formsBoundaryBetween |
Zuid-Holland
ⓘ
surface form:
South Holland and North Brabant
|
| function | drainage channel toward the North Sea ⓘ |
| hasFloodProtectionRole | yes ⓘ |
| hasWetlandOnBank | Biesbosch ⓘ |
| isTidal | partly ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Dutch river delta region
ⓘ
Western Netherlands ⓘ
surface form:
western Netherlands
|
| mouth | Hollands Diep ⓘ |
| navigable | yes ⓘ |
| near | National Park De Biesbosch ⓘ |
| partOf |
Dutch delta works river network
ⓘ
Rhine–Meuse river system ⓘ Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta ⓘ |
| roleInFloodManagement | major discharge route for high river flows ⓘ |
| separates | Island of Dordrecht from North Brabant ⓘ |
| tributaryOf | Hollands Diep ⓘ |
| usedFor |
flood discharge
ⓘ
inland shipping ⓘ |
| waterSource |
Meuse
ⓘ
Rhine ⓘ |
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: Nieuwe Merwede Description of subject: Nieuwe Merwede is a major distributary of the Rhine–Meuse river system in the Netherlands, flowing along the edge of the Biesbosch wetlands and helping to drain water toward the North Sea.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Merwede