Durance River
E19097
The Durance River is a significant river in southeastern France that flows through the Alps and Provence before joining the Rhône.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Durance | 18 |
| Durance River canonical | 17 |
| Durance basin | 3 |
| Durance River basin | 2 |
| Durance Valley | 1 |
| Durance Valley (part) | 1 |
| Durance at Mont-Dauphin | 1 |
| Durance river basin | 1 |
| Durance valley | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T95586 — 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: Durance River Context triple: [Rhône River, majorTributary, Durance River]
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A.
Isère River
The Isère River is a significant waterway in southeastern France that flows through the Alps and the city of Grenoble before joining the Rhône.
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B.
Allier River
The Allier River is a major river in central France, known for its largely unspoiled natural course and as a tributary of the Loire.
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C.
Saône River
The Saône River is a major waterway in eastern France that flows through cities like Lyon and Dijon before joining the Rhône River.
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D.
Rhône River
The Rhône River is a major European waterway that flows from the Swiss Alps through Lake Geneva into southeastern France, ultimately emptying into the Mediterranean Sea.
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E.
Loire
The Loire is the longest river in France, renowned for its scenic valley dotted with historic châteaux and vineyards.
- 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: Durance River Target entity description: The Durance River is a significant river in southeastern France that flows through the Alps and Provence before joining the Rhône.
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A.
Isère River
The Isère River is a significant waterway in southeastern France that flows through the Alps and the city of Grenoble before joining the Rhône.
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B.
Allier River
The Allier River is a major river in central France, known for its largely unspoiled natural course and as a tributary of the Loire.
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C.
Saône River
The Saône River is a major waterway in eastern France that flows through cities like Lyon and Dijon before joining the Rhône River.
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D.
Rhône River
The Rhône River is a major European waterway that flows from the Swiss Alps through Lake Geneva into southeastern France, ultimately emptying into the Mediterranean Sea.
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E.
Loire
The Loire is the longest river in France, renowned for its scenic valley dotted with historic châteaux and vineyards.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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: Durance River Description of subject: The Durance River is a significant river in southeastern France that flows through the Alps and Provence before joining the Rhône.
Referenced by (45)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Durance Valley
this entity surface form:
Durance
subject surface form:
Vaucluse
this entity surface form:
Durance
this entity surface form:
Durance basin
this entity surface form:
Durance basin
this entity surface form:
Durance valley
this entity surface form:
Durance Valley (part)
this entity surface form:
Durance
subject surface form:
Vaucluse
this entity surface form:
Durance
this entity surface form:
Durance
this entity surface form:
Durance
this entity surface form:
Durance river basin
this entity surface form:
Durance River basin
this entity surface form:
Durance
this entity surface form:
Durance
this entity surface form:
Durance basin
this entity surface form:
Durance River basin
this entity surface form:
Durance
this entity surface form:
Durance
this entity surface form:
Durance
this entity surface form:
Durance
this entity surface form:
Durance at Mont-Dauphin
this entity surface form:
Durance
this entity surface form:
Durance
this entity surface form:
Durance