Bolshaya Neva
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Bolshaya Neva is the main, wider branch of the Neva River flowing through central Saint Petersburg, Russia, and hosting several of the city’s major bridges and embankments.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bolshaya Neva canonical | 3 |
| Большая Нева | 2 |
| Bolshaya Neva River | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4083191 — 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: Bolshaya Neva Context triple: [Liteyny Bridge, locatedOnWaterbody, Bolshaya Neva]
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A.
Bolshaya Nevka
Bolshaya Nevka is a major distributary channel of the Neva River in Saint Petersburg, Russia, forming part of the city’s intricate river and canal network.
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B.
Moika River
The Moika River is a small, historic waterway in central Saint Petersburg, Russia, lined with notable palaces and landmarks and forming part of the city’s iconic canal network.
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C.
Msta River
The Msta River is a waterway in northwestern Russia that flows from the Valdai Hills through the Novgorod and Tver regions before joining the Volkhov River basin.
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D.
Okhta River
The Okhta River is a tributary waterway in northwestern Russia that flows through Saint Petersburg before joining the Neva River.
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E.
Volkhov River
The Volkhov River is a historically significant waterway in northwestern Russia that connects Lake Ilmen to Lake Ladoga and has long served as an important trade and transport route.
- 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: Bolshaya Neva Target entity description: Bolshaya Neva is the main, wider branch of the Neva River flowing through central Saint Petersburg, Russia, and hosting several of the city’s major bridges and embankments.
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A.
Bolshaya Nevka
Bolshaya Nevka is a major distributary channel of the Neva River in Saint Petersburg, Russia, forming part of the city’s intricate river and canal network.
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B.
Moika River
The Moika River is a small, historic waterway in central Saint Petersburg, Russia, lined with notable palaces and landmarks and forming part of the city’s iconic canal network.
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C.
Msta River
The Msta River is a waterway in northwestern Russia that flows from the Valdai Hills through the Novgorod and Tver regions before joining the Volkhov River basin.
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D.
Okhta River
The Okhta River is a tributary waterway in northwestern Russia that flows through Saint Petersburg before joining the Neva River.
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E.
Volkhov River
The Volkhov River is a historically significant waterway in northwestern Russia that connects Lake Ilmen to Lake Ladoga and has long served as an important trade and transport route.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
distributary
ⓘ
river branch ⓘ |
| basinCountry | Russia ⓘ |
| cityFeatureType | urban river channel ⓘ |
| climateZone | humid continental climate region ⓘ |
| country | Russia ⓘ |
| etymology | name means “Great Neva” in Russian ⓘ |
| flowsThrough | Saint Petersburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flowsThroughPart | central Saint Petersburg ⓘ |
| formsDeltaWith | Malaya Neva NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBridge |
Blagoveshchensky Bridge
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Exchange Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ Liteyny Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ Palace Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ Trinity Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ Tuchkov Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic | wider branch of the Neva River ⓘ |
| hasEmbankment |
Admiralty Embankment
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
English Embankment NERFINISHED ⓘ Palace Embankment NERFINISHED ⓘ Universitetskaya Embankment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
separates city districts
ⓘ
supports riverfront embankments ⓘ |
| hasNotableStructureOnBanks |
Admiralty building
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hermitage Museum NERFINISHED ⓘ Kunstkamera NERFINISHED ⓘ Mariinsky Palace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRole | major waterway of Saint Petersburg ⓘ |
| hasScenicView |
Peter and Paul Fortress
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
St Isaac's Cathedral NERFINISHED ⓘ Vasilievsky Island Spit NERFINISHED ⓘ Winter Palace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isMainBranchOf | Neva River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Neva River delta ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Russian ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
European Russia
ⓘ
Northwestern Federal District NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Petersburg ⓘ
surface form:
Saint Petersburg
|
| mouth |
Gulf of Finland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Neva Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nameInRussian | Большая Нева NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Neva River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfWaterSystem | Baltic Sea basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
navigation
ⓘ
tourist boat trips ⓘ urban transport ⓘ |
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: Bolshaya Neva Description of subject: Bolshaya Neva is the main, wider branch of the Neva River flowing through central Saint Petersburg, Russia, and hosting several of the city’s major bridges and embankments.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Малая Нева
this entity surface form:
Большая Нева
subject surface form:
Малая Нева
this entity surface form:
Большая Нева
this entity surface form:
Bolshaya Neva River