Kelani River
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The Kelani River is one of Sri Lanka’s major rivers, flowing from the central highlands through key urban areas including Colombo before emptying into the Indian Ocean.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kelani River canonical | 21 |
| Kelani River basin | 2 |
| Bentota River | 1 |
| Kelani River (regional basin) | 1 |
| Kelani River headwaters | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5901656 — 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: Kelani River Context triple: [Central Highlands of Sri Lanka, isWatershedFor, Kelani River]
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A.
Meriti River
The Meriti River is a watercourse in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, that flows through the metropolitan area and empties into Guanabara Bay.
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B.
Kuma River
The Kuma River is a significant river in southwestern Russia that flows through the North Caucasus region, including Stavropol Krai, before emptying into the Caspian Sea.
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C.
Tua River
The Tua River is a river in northeastern Portugal that flows through a rugged, scenic valley before joining the Douro River.
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D.
Maner River
The Maner River is a tributary of the Manjira River in southern India, contributing to the Godavari river basin and regional irrigation.
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E.
Tuivai River
The Tuivai River is a tributary waterway in northeastern India that contributes to the Barak River system and helps drain parts of the surrounding hilly terrain.
- 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: Kelani River Target entity description: The Kelani River is one of Sri Lanka’s major rivers, flowing from the central highlands through key urban areas including Colombo before emptying into the Indian Ocean.
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A.
Meriti River
The Meriti River is a watercourse in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, that flows through the metropolitan area and empties into Guanabara Bay.
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B.
Kuma River
The Kuma River is a significant river in southwestern Russia that flows through the North Caucasus region, including Stavropol Krai, before emptying into the Caspian Sea.
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C.
Tua River
The Tua River is a river in northeastern Portugal that flows through a rugged, scenic valley before joining the Douro River.
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D.
Maner River
The Maner River is a tributary of the Manjira River in southern India, contributing to the Godavari river basin and regional irrigation.
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E.
Tuivai River
The Tuivai River is a tributary waterway in northeastern India that contributes to the Barak River system and helps drain parts of the surrounding hilly terrain.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Kelani River Description of subject: The Kelani River is one of Sri Lanka’s major rivers, flowing from the central highlands through key urban areas including Colombo before emptying into the Indian Ocean.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Kelani River
linked to: Kelani River
linked to: Kelani River
subject linked to:
Kitulgala town
linked to: Kelani River
subject linked to:
Central Highlands
linked to: Kelani River