River Taw
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River Taw is a river in Devon, England, that flows through towns including Barnstaple before reaching the Bristol Channel.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| River Taw canonical | 45 |
| River Taw valley | 3 |
| River Taw (via approaches to Barnstaple area) | 1 |
| River Taw basin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1438053 — 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 Taw Context triple: [Barnstaple, locatedOnRiver, River Taw]
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A.
River Tavy
River Tavy is a river in Devon, England, that flows through the town of Tavistock before joining the River Tamar.
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B.
River Dart
The River Dart is a scenic river in Devon, England, known for flowing through Dartmoor to the English Channel and for its historic maritime and boating connections, including the naval town of Dartmouth.
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C.
River Tawd
River Tawd is a small river in Lancashire, England, known for flowing through Skelmersdale before joining the River Douglas.
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D.
Taz River
The Taz River is a major river in northwestern Siberia, Russia, that flows through the tundra of the Yamalo-Nenets region before emptying into the Kara Sea in the Arctic Ocean.
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E.
River Teme
River Teme is a major river in Wales and western England known for its scenic rural course and role as a significant tributary of the River Severn.
- 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 Taw Target entity description: River Taw is a river in Devon, England, that flows through towns including Barnstaple before reaching the Bristol Channel.
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A.
River Tavy
River Tavy is a river in Devon, England, that flows through the town of Tavistock before joining the River Tamar.
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B.
River Dart
The River Dart is a scenic river in Devon, England, known for flowing through Dartmoor to the English Channel and for its historic maritime and boating connections, including the naval town of Dartmouth.
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C.
River Tawd
River Tawd is a small river in Lancashire, England, known for flowing through Skelmersdale before joining the River Douglas.
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D.
Taz River
The Taz River is a major river in northwestern Siberia, Russia, that flows through the tundra of the Yamalo-Nenets region before emptying into the Kara Sea in the Arctic Ocean.
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E.
River Teme
River Teme is a major river in Wales and western England known for its scenic rural course and role as a significant tributary of the River Severn.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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 Taw Description of subject: River Taw is a river in Devon, England, that flows through towns including Barnstaple before reaching the Bristol Channel.
Referenced by (50)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Barnstaple, Devon, England
subject linked to:
Henry Williamson novel "Tarka the Otter"
Atlantic Coast Line and Tarka Line community rail route
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geographicFeatureFollowed
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River Taw valley
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linked to: River Taw
linked to: River Taw
subject linked to:
Umberleigh
linked to: River Taw
linked to: River Taw
subject linked to:
North Tawton, Devon, England
linked to: River Taw
subject linked to:
Tarka Line railway
subject linked to:
Braunton Burrows (at estuary)