River Ill
E163387
The River Ill is a major waterway in northeastern France that flows through the city of Strasbourg before joining the Rhine.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| River Ill canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T847412 — 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: River Ill Context triple: [European Parliament (Strasbourg seat), locatedOn, River Ill]
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A.
River Granta
The River Granta is a tributary watercourse in Cambridgeshire, England, that forms part of the upper reaches of the River Cam and flows through rural villages before joining the main river near Cambridge.
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B.
River Dorn
River Dorn is a small river in Oxfordshire, England, that flows through the Cotswolds and joins the River Glyme near Blenheim Palace.
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C.
Ourthe River
The Ourthe River is a major watercourse in southeastern Belgium that flows through the Ardennes region before joining the Meuse River.
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D.
River Yarrow
River Yarrow is a river in Lancashire, England, known for flowing through the towns of Chorley and Croston before joining the River Douglas.
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E.
Blue River
Blue River is a tributary of the Missouri River that flows through eastern Kansas and western Missouri, including the Kansas City metropolitan area.
- 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: River Ill Target entity description: The River Ill is a major waterway in northeastern France that flows through the city of Strasbourg before joining the Rhine.
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A.
River Granta
The River Granta is a tributary watercourse in Cambridgeshire, England, that forms part of the upper reaches of the River Cam and flows through rural villages before joining the main river near Cambridge.
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B.
River Dorn
River Dorn is a small river in Oxfordshire, England, that flows through the Cotswolds and joins the River Glyme near Blenheim Palace.
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C.
Ourthe River
The Ourthe River is a major watercourse in southeastern Belgium that flows through the Ardennes region before joining the Meuse River.
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D.
River Yarrow
River Yarrow is a river in Lancashire, England, known for flowing through the towns of Chorley and Croston before joining the River Douglas.
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E.
Blue River
Blue River is a tributary of the Missouri River that flows through eastern Kansas and western Missouri, including the Kansas City metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
river
ⓘ
watercourse ⓘ |
| basinCountry | France ⓘ |
| confluenceLocation | near Strasbourg ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| crosses | Upper Rhine Plain ⓘ |
| flowsDirection | generally northward ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
Bas-Rhin
ⓘ
Colmar ⓘ Haut-Rhin ⓘ Illkirch-Graffenstaden ⓘ Mulhouse ⓘ Neuf-Brisach ⓘ Strasbourg ⓘ Sélestat ⓘ |
| formsFeatureIn | historic center of Strasbourg ⓘ |
| hasCityOnBank |
Colmar
ⓘ
Mulhouse ⓘ Strasbourg ⓘ |
| languageOfName |
French
ⓘ
German ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Grand Est
ⓘ
northeastern France ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | Europe ⓘ |
| mouthOf | Rhine ⓘ |
| partOf |
Rhine basin
ⓘ
linked to:
Rhine River Basin
|
| region | Alsace ⓘ |
| tributaryOf | Rhine ⓘ |
| usedFor |
inland navigation
ⓘ
irrigation ⓘ recreation ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| waterwayType | navigable in parts ⓘ |
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: River Ill Description of subject: The River Ill is a major waterway in northeastern France that flows through the city of Strasbourg before joining the Rhine.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.