Araz River
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The Araz River is a major transboundary river in the South Caucasus and northwestern Iran that forms part of the border between Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran before joining the Kura River.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Aras River | 2 |
| Araks River | 1 |
| Araz River canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5446038 — 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: Araz River Context triple: [Aras River, alsoKnownAs, Araz River]
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A.
Qom River
The Qom River is a significant river in central Iran that flows through the city of Qom and contributes to the region’s agriculture and water supply.
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B.
Karkheh River
The Karkheh River is a major waterway in western Iran that flows through the Khuzestan plain and supports extensive agriculture and settlements before emptying into the Mesopotamian lowlands.
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C.
Bidzhan River
The Bidzhan River is a river in Russia’s Far East that flows through the Jewish Autonomous Oblast and serves as an important local waterway in the region.
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D.
Zayandeh River
The Zayandeh River is a major river in central Iran that flows through the city of Isfahan, historically supporting its agriculture, architecture, and famous bridges.
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E.
Enguri River
The Enguri River is a major river in western Georgia that flows from the Caucasus Mountains to the Black Sea and is notable for the Enguri Dam, one of the tallest arch dams in the world.
- 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: Araz River Target entity description: The Araz River is a major transboundary river in the South Caucasus and northwestern Iran that forms part of the border between Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran before joining the Kura River.
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A.
Qom River
The Qom River is a significant river in central Iran that flows through the city of Qom and contributes to the region’s agriculture and water supply.
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B.
Karkheh River
The Karkheh River is a major waterway in western Iran that flows through the Khuzestan plain and supports extensive agriculture and settlements before emptying into the Mesopotamian lowlands.
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C.
Bidzhan River
The Bidzhan River is a river in Russia’s Far East that flows through the Jewish Autonomous Oblast and serves as an important local waterway in the region.
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D.
Zayandeh River
The Zayandeh River is a major river in central Iran that flows through the city of Isfahan, historically supporting its agriculture, architecture, and famous bridges.
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E.
Enguri River
The Enguri River is a major river in western Georgia that flows from the Caucasus Mountains to the Black Sea and is notable for the Enguri Dam, one of the tallest arch dams in the world.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | river ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Aras River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Araxes River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
Armenia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Azerbaijan NERFINISHED ⓘ Iran NERFINISHED ⓘ Turkey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| countryBorder |
Armenia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Azerbaijan NERFINISHED ⓘ Iran NERFINISHED ⓘ Turkey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dischargesInto | Kura River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flowsAlong | Iran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
Armenia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Azerbaijan NERFINISHED ⓘ Turkey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formsBorderBetween |
Armenia and Iran
ⓘ
Azerbaijan and Iran ⓘ Turkey and Armenia NERFINISHED ⓘ Turkey and Azerbaijan (Nakhchivan exclave) ⓘ |
| hasPoliticalSignificance | yes ⓘ |
| locatedIn | northwestern Iran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mouthOf | Kura River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Kura–Araz river system
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
South Caucasus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Caucasus ⓘ |
| tributaryOf | Kura River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
hydroelectric power
ⓘ
irrigation ⓘ |
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: Araz River Description of subject: The Araz River is a major transboundary river in the South Caucasus and northwestern Iran that forms part of the border between Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran before joining the Kura River.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Aras River
this entity surface form:
Aras River
subject surface form:
Artashat
this entity surface form:
Araks River