Aras River
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The Aras River is a major transboundary river in the South Caucasus and surrounding regions, forming parts of international borders and ultimately flowing into the Kura River.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Aras River canonical | 22 |
| Araks River | 2 |
| Aras River valley | 2 |
| Aras River basin | 1 |
| Aras River near Turkey–Armenia border | 1 |
| Arax River | 1 |
| Araxes | 1 |
| Araxes River | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T998310 — 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: Aras River Context triple: [South Caucasus, containsBodyOfWater, Aras River]
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A.
Enguri River
The Enguri River is a major river in western Georgia that flows from the Caucasus Mountains to the Black Sea and is notable for the Enguri Dam, one of the tallest arch dams in the world.
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B.
Gediz River
The Gediz River is a major river in western Turkey that flows into the Aegean Sea near the city of Izmir.
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C.
Sacandaga River
The Sacandaga River is a major river in upstate New York that drains the southern Adirondacks and flows into the Hudson River, historically important for logging, power generation, and recreation.
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D.
Syr Darya
Syr Darya is a major river in Central Asia that flows through countries such as Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan before emptying into the remnants of the Aral Sea.
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E.
Mtkvari River
The Mtkvari River, also known as the Kura, is a major river in the South Caucasus that flows through Turkey, Georgia, and Azerbaijan before emptying into the Caspian Sea.
- 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: Aras River Target entity description: The Aras River is a major transboundary river in the South Caucasus and surrounding regions, forming parts of international borders and ultimately flowing into the Kura River.
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A.
Enguri River
The Enguri River is a major river in western Georgia that flows from the Caucasus Mountains to the Black Sea and is notable for the Enguri Dam, one of the tallest arch dams in the world.
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B.
Gediz River
The Gediz River is a major river in western Turkey that flows into the Aegean Sea near the city of Izmir.
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C.
Sacandaga River
The Sacandaga River is a major river in upstate New York that drains the southern Adirondacks and flows into the Hudson River, historically important for logging, power generation, and recreation.
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D.
Syr Darya
Syr Darya is a major river in Central Asia that flows through countries such as Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan before emptying into the remnants of the Aral Sea.
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E.
Mtkvari River
The Mtkvari River, also known as the Kura, is a major river in the South Caucasus that flows through Turkey, Georgia, and Azerbaijan before emptying into the Caspian Sea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Aras River Description of subject: The Aras River is a major transboundary river in the South Caucasus and surrounding regions, forming parts of international borders and ultimately flowing into the Kura River.
Referenced by (31)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Araxes
this entity surface form:
Arax River
this entity surface form:
Aras River basin
this entity surface form:
Aras River valley
this entity surface form:
Araxes River
this entity surface form:
Araks River
subject surface form:
Northwestern Iran
this entity surface form:
Aras River valley
this entity surface form:
Aras River near Turkey–Armenia border
this entity surface form:
Araks River