Main
E41131
The Main is a major river in Germany that flows through central regions including the state of Bavaria before joining the Rhine.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Main canonical | 89 |
| White Main and Red Main (nearby) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T318152 — 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: Main Context triple: [Bavaria, hasMajorRiver, Main]
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Home
Home is a 2012 novel by Toni Morrison that follows a Korean War veteran’s journey back to his racially segregated hometown in the American South, exploring themes of trauma, memory, and belonging.
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B.
Ma
Ma is a common Chinese surname borne by many notable individuals across fields such as music, politics, and sports.
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C.
Mitte
Mitte is the central district of Berlin, Germany, known as the historic core of the city and home to many major landmarks and government institutions.
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D.
Main Interior Building
The Main Interior Building is a prominent federal office building in Washington, D.C., that houses the U.S. Department of the Interior and serves as the central workplace for agencies such as the National Park Service.
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E.
HOME
HOME is a major arts centre in Manchester, England, known for its contemporary theatre, independent cinema, and visual arts exhibitions.
- 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: Main Target entity description: The Main is a major river in Germany that flows through central regions including the state of Bavaria before joining the Rhine.
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A.
Home
Home is a 2012 novel by Toni Morrison that follows a Korean War veteran’s journey back to his racially segregated hometown in the American South, exploring themes of trauma, memory, and belonging.
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B.
Ma
Ma is a common Chinese surname borne by many notable individuals across fields such as music, politics, and sports.
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C.
Mitte
Mitte is the central district of Berlin, Germany, known as the historic core of the city and home to many major landmarks and government institutions.
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D.
Main Interior Building
The Main Interior Building is a prominent federal office building in Washington, D.C., that houses the U.S. Department of the Interior and serves as the central workplace for agencies such as the National Park Service.
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E.
HOME
HOME is a major arts centre in Manchester, England, known for its contemporary theatre, independent cinema, and visual arts exhibitions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Main Description of subject: The Main is a major river in Germany that flows through central regions including the state of Bavaria before joining the Rhine.
Referenced by (90)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Main-Spessart (district)
subject linked to:
western Germany
subject linked to:
Main Building
linked to: Main
subject linked to:
Hesse, Germany