Yan River
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The Yan River is a tributary of the Yellow River in Shaanxi Province, China, known for flowing through the historic revolutionary base area of Yan'an.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yan River canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2826858 — 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: Yan River Context triple: [Yan'an, locatedOnRiver, Yan River]
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A.
Chagan River
The Chagan River is a smaller watercourse in Russia and Kazakhstan that feeds into the Ural River within the Ural basin.
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B.
Yana River
The Yana River is a major river in northeastern Siberia, Russia, that flows northward into the Laptev Sea of the Arctic Ocean.
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C.
Ota River
The Ota River is a major river in Japan’s Hiroshima Prefecture, known for flowing through the city of Hiroshima and forming the delta on which the city is built.
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D.
Pyasina River
The Pyasina River is a major river in northern Siberia, Russia, that flows through the Arctic tundra of Krasnoyarsk Krai before emptying into the Kara Sea.
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E.
Qing River
The Qing River is a major tributary of the Yangtze River in central China, known for its deep gorges, hydropower dams, and scenic landscapes in Hubei Province.
- 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: Yan River Target entity description: The Yan River is a tributary of the Yellow River in Shaanxi Province, China, known for flowing through the historic revolutionary base area of Yan'an.
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A.
Chagan River
The Chagan River is a smaller watercourse in Russia and Kazakhstan that feeds into the Ural River within the Ural basin.
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B.
Yana River
The Yana River is a major river in northeastern Siberia, Russia, that flows northward into the Laptev Sea of the Arctic Ocean.
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C.
Ota River
The Ota River is a major river in Japan’s Hiroshima Prefecture, known for flowing through the city of Hiroshima and forming the delta on which the city is built.
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D.
Pyasina River
The Pyasina River is a major river in northern Siberia, Russia, that flows through the Arctic tundra of Krasnoyarsk Krai before emptying into the Kara Sea.
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E.
Qing River
The Qing River is a major tributary of the Yangtze River in central China, known for its deep gorges, hydropower dams, and scenic landscapes in Hubei Province.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
river
ⓘ
tributary ⓘ |
| basinCountry | China ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| flowsInDirection | generally southward ⓘ |
| flowsNear |
Yan'an revolutionary sites
ⓘ
surface form:
Yan'an Revolutionary Memorial sites
|
| flowsThrough | Yan'an ⓘ |
| hasChineseName | 延河 ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalRole | associated with the Chinese Communist Party base in Yan'an ⓘ |
| hasHydrologicalRole | important tributary of the middle reaches of the Yellow River ⓘ |
| hasPoliticalSignificance | Chinese Communist revolutionary history ⓘ |
| knownFor | flowing through the historic revolutionary base area of Yan'an ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
China
ⓘ
surface form:
People's Republic of China
Shaanxi Province ⓘ North China ⓘ
surface form:
northern China
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| mouthLocatedIn | Yellow River ⓘ |
| partOf | Yellow River basin ⓘ |
| region |
Loess Plateau (eastern part)
ⓘ
surface form:
Loess Plateau
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| tributaryOf | Yellow River ⓘ |
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: Yan River Description of subject: The Yan River is a tributary of the Yellow River in Shaanxi Province, China, known for flowing through the historic revolutionary base area of Yan'an.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.