Reichenbach stream
E1001579
The Reichenbach stream is a Swiss mountain watercourse in the Bernese Oberland, best known for feeding the Reichenbach Falls made famous by Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Reichenbach stream canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12709112 — 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: Reichenbach stream Context triple: [Hasli-Aare basin, tributary, Reichenbach stream]
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A.
Reichenbach
Reichenbach is a German surname most notably associated with Hans Reichenbach, a prominent 20th-century philosopher of science and logical empiricist.
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B.
Steinach river
The Steinach river is a small watercourse in southern Germany that flows through the spa town of Bad Waldsee in the state of Baden-Württemberg.
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C.
Lachen River
The Lachen River is a Himalayan mountain river in the Indian state of Sikkim, known for its glacial origins and role in feeding the Teesta River system.
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D.
Erms river
The Erms river is a tributary of the Neckar in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, flowing through the Swabian Jura and the district of Reutlingen.
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E.
Rodach River
The Rodach River is a watercourse in northern Bavaria, Germany, that flows through the Kronach district and serves as a tributary of the Main 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: Reichenbach stream Target entity description: The Reichenbach stream is a Swiss mountain watercourse in the Bernese Oberland, best known for feeding the Reichenbach Falls made famous by Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories.
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A.
Reichenbach
Reichenbach is a German surname most notably associated with Hans Reichenbach, a prominent 20th-century philosopher of science and logical empiricist.
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B.
Steinach river
The Steinach river is a small watercourse in southern Germany that flows through the spa town of Bad Waldsee in the state of Baden-Württemberg.
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C.
Lachen River
The Lachen River is a Himalayan mountain river in the Indian state of Sikkim, known for its glacial origins and role in feeding the Teesta River system.
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D.
Erms river
The Erms river is a tributary of the Neckar in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, flowing through the Swabian Jura and the district of Reutlingen.
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E.
Rodach River
The Rodach River is a watercourse in northern Bavaria, Germany, that flows through the Kronach district and serves as a tributary of the Main River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (21)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mountain stream
ⓘ
watercourse ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter |
Professor Moriarty
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sherlock Holmes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| feeds | Reichenbach Falls NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalAssociation | The Final Problem NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flowsThroughRegion | Bernese Oberland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geographicFeatureClass | stream ⓘ |
| hasLanguageRegion | German-speaking Switzerland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNameOrigin | named after Reichenbach area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Bernese Oberland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
canton of Bern NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| madeFamousBy |
Arthur Conan Doyle
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sherlock Holmes stories NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
appearance in Sherlock Holmes stories
ⓘ
association with Reichenbach Falls ⓘ |
| partOfHydrologicalSystem | Reichenbach Falls basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tourismAttractionRole | supplies water to a major tourist waterfall ⓘ |
| watercourseType | mountain watercourse ⓘ |
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: Reichenbach stream Description of subject: The Reichenbach stream is a Swiss mountain watercourse in the Bernese Oberland, best known for feeding the Reichenbach Falls made famous by Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.