Old Gandak River
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Old Gandak River is an alternate name for the Burhi Gandak River, a significant river flowing through the Indian state of Bihar and forming part of the Ganges river system.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Old Gandak River canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12895276 — 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: Old Gandak River Context triple: [Burhi Gandak River, hasAlternateName, Old Gandak River]
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A.
Khan River
The Khan River is a small river flowing through the city of Indore in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, historically significant but heavily affected by urban pollution.
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B.
Tamur River
The Tamur River is a major river in eastern Nepal that originates near the Kanchenjunga region and joins other rivers to form part of the Kosi River system flowing into India.
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C.
Kalama River
The Kalama River is a tributary of the Columbia River in southwestern Washington State, known for its scenic forested course and popular salmon and steelhead fishing.
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D.
Khabur River
The Khabur River is a major river in northeastern Syria that flows through the Jazira region and is historically significant as part of ancient Mesopotamia’s irrigation and settlement network.
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E.
Surkhandarya River
The Surkhandarya River is a significant watercourse in Central Asia that flows through southern Uzbekistan and Tajikistan before joining the Amu Darya.
- 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: Old Gandak River Target entity description: Old Gandak River is an alternate name for the Burhi Gandak River, a significant river flowing through the Indian state of Bihar and forming part of the Ganges river system.
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A.
Khan River
The Khan River is a small river flowing through the city of Indore in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, historically significant but heavily affected by urban pollution.
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B.
Tamur River
The Tamur River is a major river in eastern Nepal that originates near the Kanchenjunga region and joins other rivers to form part of the Kosi River system flowing into India.
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C.
Kalama River
The Kalama River is a tributary of the Columbia River in southwestern Washington State, known for its scenic forested course and popular salmon and steelhead fishing.
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D.
Khabur River
The Khabur River is a major river in northeastern Syria that flows through the Jazira region and is historically significant as part of ancient Mesopotamia’s irrigation and settlement network.
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E.
Surkhandarya River
The Surkhandarya River is a significant watercourse in Central Asia that flows through southern Uzbekistan and Tajikistan before joining the Amu Darya.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Old Gandak River Description of subject: Old Gandak River is an alternate name for the Burhi Gandak River, a significant river flowing through the Indian state of Bihar and forming part of the Ganges river system.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.