Mopan River
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The Mopan River is a major waterway in western Belize and eastern Guatemala, known for flowing through jungle landscapes and past the town of San Ignacio before joining the Macal River to form the Belize River.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mopan River canonical | 8 |
| Mopan River valley | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4215507 — 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: Mopan River Context triple: [San Ignacio, nearRiver, Mopan River]
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A.
Choluteca River
The Choluteca River is a major river in southern Honduras known for flowing through the capital city, Tegucigalpa, and for its severe flooding during Hurricane Mitch in 1998.
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B.
Tejipió River
The Tejipió River is an urban waterway in Recife, Brazil, playing a significant role in the city's drainage system and environmental landscape.
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C.
Putumayo River
The Putumayo River is a major tributary of the Amazon that flows through Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and Brazil, serving as an important natural border and transportation route in the western Amazon basin.
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D.
Bayano River
The Bayano River is one of Panama’s major rivers, flowing through the eastern part of the country and feeding into the Gulf of Panama.
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E.
Usumacinta River
The Usumacinta River is a major river in southeastern Mexico and northwestern Guatemala, known for its extensive rainforest basin, rich biodiversity, and archaeological sites of the ancient Maya civilization along its banks.
- 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: Mopan River Target entity description: The Mopan River is a major waterway in western Belize and eastern Guatemala, known for flowing through jungle landscapes and past the town of San Ignacio before joining the Macal River to form the Belize River.
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A.
Choluteca River
The Choluteca River is a major river in southern Honduras known for flowing through the capital city, Tegucigalpa, and for its severe flooding during Hurricane Mitch in 1998.
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B.
Tejipió River
The Tejipió River is an urban waterway in Recife, Brazil, playing a significant role in the city's drainage system and environmental landscape.
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C.
Putumayo River
The Putumayo River is a major tributary of the Amazon that flows through Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and Brazil, serving as an important natural border and transportation route in the western Amazon basin.
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D.
Bayano River
The Bayano River is one of Panama’s major rivers, flowing through the eastern part of the country and feeding into the Gulf of Panama.
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E.
Usumacinta River
The Usumacinta River is a major river in southeastern Mexico and northwestern Guatemala, known for its extensive rainforest basin, rich biodiversity, and archaeological sites of the ancient Maya civilization along its banks.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | river ⓘ |
| associatedPeople |
Mopan Maya people
ⓘ
linked to:
Mopan people
|
| borderFunction | part of Belize–Guatemala border region ⓘ |
| confluenceWith | Macal River ⓘ |
| country |
Belize
ⓘ
Guatemala ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision |
Cayo District, Belize
ⓘ
linked to:
Cayo District
Petén Department, Guatemala ⓘ
linked to:
Petén Department
|
| drainageBasin | Caribbean Sea ⓘ |
| ecosystem | tropical rainforest ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
Benque Viejo del Carmen
ⓘ
Cayo District ⓘ Petén Department ⓘ San Ignacio ⓘ jungle landscapes ⓘ |
| forms | Belize River ⓘ |
| hasTributary |
Chiquibul River
ⓘ
Roaring Creek ⓘ |
| knownFor |
canoeing
ⓘ
clear water ⓘ rafting ⓘ |
| languageOrigin | Mopan Maya ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
eastern Guatemala
ⓘ
western Belize ⓘ |
| mouthLocation | confluence with Macal River at San Ignacio ⓘ |
| partOf |
Belize River basin
ⓘ
linked to:
Belize River
|
| sourceLocation | Guatemala ⓘ |
| usedFor |
irrigation
ⓘ
recreation ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
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: Mopan River Description of subject: The Mopan River is a major waterway in western Belize and eastern Guatemala, known for flowing through jungle landscapes and past the town of San Ignacio before joining the Macal River to form the Belize River.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mopan River
linked to: Mopan River
linked to: Mopan River