White Main
E514986
White Main is one of the two principal headstreams of the Main River in Germany, rising in the Fichtel Mountains and flowing westward before joining the Red Main.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| White Main canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5377722 — 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: White Main Context triple: [Main, formedByConfluenceOf, White Main]
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A.
Blanc
Blanc is the surname of Mel Blanc, the legendary American voice actor best known for bringing to life many iconic Looney Tunes characters.
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B.
Brightside
"Brightside" is an album by the American folk rock band The Lumineers, known for its intimate, stripped-down sound and reflective storytelling.
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C.
Blau
The Blau is a small river in the German state of Baden-Württemberg that flows through the city of Blaustein before joining the Danube.
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D.
Whiteson
Whiteson is an English patronymic surname meaning "son of White," typically derived from an ancestor’s nickname or descriptive name.
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E.
The White-Blues
The White-Blues is the traditional nickname of FC Dynamo Kyiv, one of Ukraine’s most successful and historically significant football clubs.
- 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: White Main Target entity description: White Main is one of the two principal headstreams of the Main River in Germany, rising in the Fichtel Mountains and flowing westward before joining the Red Main.
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A.
Blanc
Blanc is the surname of Mel Blanc, the legendary American voice actor best known for bringing to life many iconic Looney Tunes characters.
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B.
Brightside
"Brightside" is an album by the American folk rock band The Lumineers, known for its intimate, stripped-down sound and reflective storytelling.
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C.
Blau
The Blau is a small river in the German state of Baden-Württemberg that flows through the city of Blaustein before joining the Danube.
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D.
Whiteson
Whiteson is an English patronymic surname meaning "son of White," typically derived from an ancestor’s nickname or descriptive name.
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E.
The White-Blues
The White-Blues is the traditional nickname of FC Dynamo Kyiv, one of Ukraine’s most successful and historically significant football clubs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
headstream
ⓘ
river ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| directionOfFlow | westward ⓘ |
| flowsInto | Red Main NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
Bavaria
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Upper Franconia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| forms | Main River at confluence with Red Main ⓘ |
| hasHydrologicalRole | principal source branch of the Main River ⓘ |
| hasMouth | confluence with Red Main ⓘ |
| hasNameInLanguage | Weißer Main (German) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isHeadstreamOf | Main River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isOneOf | two principal headstreams of the Main River ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Bavaria
ⓘ
Germany ⓘ |
| otherPrincipalHeadstream | Red Main NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Main River basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Upper Franconia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| riverSystem | Rhine River basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sourceLocation | Fichtel Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sourceRegion | northern Bavaria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tributaryType | headwater stream ⓘ |
| watercourseType | right headstream of the Main 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: White Main Description of subject: White Main is one of the two principal headstreams of the Main River in Germany, rising in the Fichtel Mountains and flowing westward before joining the Red Main.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Main