Maputo River
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Maputo River is a river in southern Africa that flows through Eswatini and Mozambique before emptying into the Indian Ocean near the city of Maputo.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maputo River canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3337323 — 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: Maputo River Context triple: [Maputo, namedAfter, Maputo River]
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A.
Tugela River
The Tugela River is one of South Africa’s major rivers, flowing through the province of KwaZulu-Natal from the Drakensberg Mountains to the Indian Ocean.
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B.
Lunga River
Lunga River is a river in the Solomon Islands on Guadalcanal, known for its strategic significance during World War II, particularly in the Guadalcanal campaign.
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C.
Lunga River
The Lunga River is a significant river in Zambia that flows through the country's northwestern region, supporting local ecosystems and communities along its course.
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D.
Mapocho River
The Mapocho River is a major waterway flowing through the city of Santiago, Chile, historically central to its development and urban landscape.
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E.
Limpopo River
The Limpopo River is a major river in southern Africa that flows eastward from central southern Africa to the Indian Ocean, forming parts of the borders between several countries including South Africa, Botswana, and Zimbabwe.
- 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: Maputo River Target entity description: Maputo River is a river in southern Africa that flows through Eswatini and Mozambique before emptying into the Indian Ocean near the city of Maputo.
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A.
Tugela River
The Tugela River is one of South Africa’s major rivers, flowing through the province of KwaZulu-Natal from the Drakensberg Mountains to the Indian Ocean.
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B.
Lunga River
Lunga River is a river in the Solomon Islands on Guadalcanal, known for its strategic significance during World War II, particularly in the Guadalcanal campaign.
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C.
Lunga River
The Lunga River is a significant river in Zambia that flows through the country's northwestern region, supporting local ecosystems and communities along its course.
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D.
Mapocho River
The Mapocho River is a major waterway flowing through the city of Santiago, Chile, historically central to its development and urban landscape.
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E.
Limpopo River
The Limpopo River is a major river in southern Africa that flows eastward from central southern Africa to the Indian Ocean, forming parts of the borders between several countries including South Africa, Botswana, and Zimbabwe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | river ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Maputo River (Mozambique–Eswatini)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rio Maputo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
Eswatini
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mozambique NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| borderFunction | forms part of the border between Eswatini and Mozambique ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country |
Eswatini
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mozambique NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| drainageBasin |
eastern Eswatini
ⓘ
southern Mozambique ⓘ |
| flowsInto | Indian Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
Eswatini
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mozambique NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEstuary | Maputo River estuary ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Eswatini
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mozambique NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | UTC+2 ⓘ |
| mouth | Indian Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mouthElevation | 0 metres ⓘ |
| mouthLocation | near Maputo ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Maputo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearCity | Maputo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Indian Ocean drainage basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Southern Africa ⓘ |
| terminus | Indian Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| uses |
fishing
ⓘ
irrigation ⓘ transport ⓘ |
| waterBodyType | perennial 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: Maputo River Description of subject: Maputo River is a river in southern Africa that flows through Eswatini and Mozambique before emptying into the Indian Ocean near the city of Maputo.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.