Reuss basin
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The Reuss basin is the drainage area of the Reuss River in central Switzerland, encompassing its catchment from the Alps through major lakes and valleys before joining the Aare.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Reuss | 10 |
| Reuss Valley | 5 |
| Reuss basin canonical | 3 |
| Reuss river basin | 2 |
| Reuss plain | 1 |
| Reuss plain in Aargau | 1 |
| Reuss valley | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2803057 — 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: Reuss basin Context triple: [Aare basin, hasTributary, Reuss basin]
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A.
Rhône river basin
The Rhône river basin is the extensive drainage area in Switzerland and southeastern France that collects the waters of the Rhône and its tributaries before they flow into the Mediterranean Sea.
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B.
Jura
Jura is a remote, sparsely populated island in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides, known for its rugged mountains, large red deer population, and the Jura whisky distillery.
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C.
Jura
Jura is a department in eastern France known for its forested mountains, lakes, and part of the Jura mountain range along the Swiss border.
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D.
Jura
Jura is a predominantly French-speaking canton in northwestern Switzerland known for its Jura Mountains, watchmaking tradition, and strong regional identity.
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E.
Broye
Broye is a river in western Switzerland that flows through the cantons of Fribourg and Vaud before emptying into Lake Neuchâtel.
- 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: Reuss basin Target entity description: The Reuss basin is the drainage area of the Reuss River in central Switzerland, encompassing its catchment from the Alps through major lakes and valleys before joining the Aare.
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A.
Rhône river basin
The Rhône river basin is the extensive drainage area in Switzerland and southeastern France that collects the waters of the Rhône and its tributaries before they flow into the Mediterranean Sea.
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B.
Jura
Jura is a department in eastern France known for its forested mountains, lakes, and part of the Jura mountain range along the Swiss border.
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C.
Jura
Jura is a predominantly French-speaking canton in northwestern Switzerland known for its Jura Mountains, watchmaking tradition, and strong regional identity.
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D.
Jura
Jura is a remote, sparsely populated island in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides, known for its rugged mountains, large red deer population, and the Jura whisky distillery.
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E.
Broye
Broye is a river in western Switzerland that flows through the cantons of Fribourg and Vaud before emptying into Lake Neuchâtel.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drainage basin
ⓘ
river basin ⓘ |
| containsCity |
Aarau
ⓘ
Lucerne ⓘ Zug ⓘ |
| containsLake |
Lake Baldegg
ⓘ
Hallwilersee ⓘ
surface form:
Lake Hallwil
Lake Lucerne ⓘ Lake Sempach ⓘ Lake Zug ⓘ |
| containsTown |
Altdorf
ⓘ
Andermatt ⓘ Bremgarten ⓘ Erstfeld ⓘ Flüelen ⓘ Göschenen ⓘ Mellingen ⓘ Rotkreuz ⓘ |
| containsTransportCorridor |
A2 motorway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gotthard axis ⓘ Gotthard route ⓘ
surface form:
Gotthard railway line
|
| containsValley |
Reuss basin
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Reuss Valley
Reuss basin self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Reuss plain
Urseren valley ⓘ
surface form:
Urseren Valley
|
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| drainageDirection | north ⓘ |
| drainedBy | Reuss River ⓘ |
| flowsInto |
Aare
ⓘ
surface form:
Aare River
|
| hasConfluenceWith |
Aare
ⓘ
surface form:
Aare River at Brugg
|
| hasMajorLandUse |
agriculture
ⓘ
hydropower production ⓘ settlement ⓘ |
| hasOutflowNear | Brugg ⓘ |
| hasSourceRegion |
Gotthard region
ⓘ
Swiss Alps ⓘ |
| hydrologicalSystem |
Rhine River Basin
ⓘ
surface form:
Rhine River system
|
| locatedIn | central Switzerland ⓘ |
| locatedInCanton |
Canton of Aargau
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Canton of Lucerne NERFINISHED ⓘ Canton of Nidwalden NERFINISHED ⓘ Canton of Obwalden NERFINISHED ⓘ Canton of Schwyz NERFINISHED ⓘ Canton of Uri NERFINISHED ⓘ Canton of Zug NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| majorTributaryOf |
Aare
ⓘ
surface form:
Aare River
|
| mouthRiver |
Aare
ⓘ
surface form:
Aare River
|
| partOf |
Aare basin
ⓘ
Rhine River Basin ⓘ
surface form:
Rhine basin
|
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: Reuss basin Description of subject: The Reuss basin is the drainage area of the Reuss River in central Switzerland, encompassing its catchment from the Alps through major lakes and valleys before joining the Aare.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Reuss
this entity surface form:
Reuss
this entity surface form:
Reuss Valley
this entity surface form:
Reuss plain in Aargau
this entity surface form:
Reuss river basin
this entity surface form:
Reuss
this entity surface form:
Reuss
this entity surface form:
Reuss Valley
this entity surface form:
Reuss Valley
this entity surface form:
Reuss Valley
this entity surface form:
Reuss
this entity surface form:
Reuss
this entity surface form:
Reuss
this entity surface form:
Reuss
this entity surface form:
Reuss Valley
this entity surface form:
Reuss plain
this entity surface form:
Reuss valley
this entity surface form:
Reuss
this entity surface form:
Reuss river basin
this entity surface form:
Reuss