Wouri River
E163467
The Wouri River is a major waterway in southwestern Cameroon that flows into the Gulf of Guinea and hosts the important port city of Douala along its estuary.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wouri River canonical | 18 |
| Wouri River estuary | 5 |
| Wouri River basin | 2 |
| Rivière Wouri | 1 |
| Wouri River system | 1 |
| Wouri estuary | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1128834 — 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: Wouri River Context triple: [Cameroon, river, Wouri River]
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A.
Ogooué River
The Ogooué River is the principal waterway of Gabon, flowing across the country to the Atlantic Ocean and serving as a vital ecological and transportation corridor in Central Africa.
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B.
Logone River
The Logone River is a significant Central African waterway that forms part of the border between Chad and Cameroon before joining the Chari River near Lake Chad.
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C.
Gongola River
The Gongola River is a major river in northeastern Nigeria that flows through the savanna region before joining the Benue River.
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D.
Volta River
The Volta River is a major river system in West Africa that flows primarily through Ghana, where it feeds Lake Volta, one of the world’s largest artificial reservoirs.
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E.
Benue River
The Benue River is a major West African waterway and the largest tributary of the Niger River, flowing through Cameroon and Nigeria and serving as an important route for transport, agriculture, and fishing.
- 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: Wouri River Target entity description: The Wouri River is a major waterway in southwestern Cameroon that flows into the Gulf of Guinea and hosts the important port city of Douala along its estuary.
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A.
Ogooué River
The Ogooué River is the principal waterway of Gabon, flowing across the country to the Atlantic Ocean and serving as a vital ecological and transportation corridor in Central Africa.
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B.
Logone River
The Logone River is a significant Central African waterway that forms part of the border between Chad and Cameroon before joining the Chari River near Lake Chad.
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C.
Gongola River
The Gongola River is a major river in northeastern Nigeria that flows through the savanna region before joining the Benue River.
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D.
Volta River
The Volta River is a major river system in West Africa that flows primarily through Ghana, where it feeds Lake Volta, one of the world’s largest artificial reservoirs.
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E.
Benue River
The Benue River is a major West African waterway and the largest tributary of the Niger River, flowing through Cameroon and Nigeria and serving as an important route for transport, agriculture, and fishing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | river ⓘ |
| basinCountry | Cameroon ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country | Cameroon ⓘ |
| crosses | Douala ⓘ |
| flowsInto | Gulf of Guinea ⓘ |
| formsEstuaryAt | Douala ⓘ |
| hasBridge | Wouri Bridge ⓘ |
| hasCityOnEstuary | Douala ⓘ |
| hasEstuary |
Wouri River estuary
ⓘ
linked to:
Wouri River
|
| hasPortCity | Douala ⓘ |
| hasTributary |
Dibamba River
ⓘ
Mungo River ⓘ Nkam River ⓘ |
| languageOfName | French ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Littoral Region, Cameroon
ⓘ
linked to:
Littoral Region of Cameroon
Southwest Cameroon ⓘ
linked to:
Southwest Region of Cameroon
West Africa ⓘ |
| mouthLocation | Gulf of Guinea ⓘ |
| nameInEnglish | Wouri River ⓘ |
| nameInFrench |
Rivière Wouri
ⓘ
linked to:
Wouri River
|
| near |
Cameroon estuarine mangroves
ⓘ
linked to:
Guinean mangroves
|
| partOf | Atlantic Ocean drainage basin ⓘ |
| region |
Gulf of Guinea coast
ⓘ
linked to:
Gulf of Guinea
|
| significance |
major commercial waterway of Cameroon
ⓘ
supports Douala seaport ⓘ |
| tributaryOf | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| usedFor |
fishing
ⓘ
shipping ⓘ transportation ⓘ |
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: Wouri River Description of subject: The Wouri River is a major waterway in southwestern Cameroon that flows into the Gulf of Guinea and hosts the important port city of Douala along its estuary.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
Diwala
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subject linked to:
Cameroon (as part of its successor Cross River State)