Marowijne
E707573
Marowijne is a major river in northeastern South America that forms part of the border between Suriname and French Guiana.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marowijne canonical | 3 |
| Marowijne (Dutch) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8015695 — 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: Marowijne Context triple: [Maroni River, alsoKnownAs, Marowijne]
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A.
Mollerussa
Mollerussa is a small town in the province of Lleida, Catalonia, Spain, known for its agricultural surroundings and regional commercial services.
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B.
De Haan
De Haan is a seaside resort town on the Belgian coast, known for its Belle Époque architecture and beaches.
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C.
Wallabia
Wallabia is a genus of marsupials that includes the swamp wallaby, a small to medium-sized grazing macropod native to eastern Australia.
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D.
Waras
Waras is a significant town in Afghanistan’s central highland region of Hazarajat, serving as an important local hub for the surrounding Hazara communities.
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E.
Wanaruah
Wanaruah is an alternative ethnonym for the Wonnarua, an Aboriginal Australian people traditionally associated with the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales.
- 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: Marowijne Target entity description: Marowijne is a major river in northeastern South America that forms part of the border between Suriname and French Guiana.
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A.
Mollerussa
Mollerussa is a small town in the province of Lleida, Catalonia, Spain, known for its agricultural surroundings and regional commercial services.
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B.
De Haan
De Haan is a seaside resort town on the Belgian coast, known for its Belle Époque architecture and beaches.
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C.
Wallabia
Wallabia is a genus of marsupials that includes the swamp wallaby, a small to medium-sized grazing macropod native to eastern Australia.
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D.
Waras
Waras is a significant town in Afghanistan’s central highland region of Hazarajat, serving as an important local hub for the surrounding Hazara communities.
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E.
Wanaruah
Wanaruah is an alternative ethnonym for the Wonnarua, an Aboriginal Australian people traditionally associated with the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | river ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Maroni ⓘ |
| bordersAdministrativeRegion |
Marowijne District
ⓘ
Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni arrondissement ⓘ
linked to:
Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni
|
| continent | South America ⓘ |
| countryBorderBetween |
French Guiana
ⓘ
Suriname ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
French Guiana
ⓘ
Suriname ⓘ |
| formsBorderBetween |
French Guiana
ⓘ
Suriname ⓘ |
| formsPartOfBorderOf |
French Guiana
ⓘ
Suriname ⓘ |
| hasMouthNear |
Atlantic coast of French Guiana
ⓘ
Atlantic coast of Suriname ⓘ |
| languageVariantNameInDutch | Marowijne ⓘ |
| languageVariantNameInFrench | Maroni ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
French Guiana
ⓘ
Suriname ⓘ |
| mouthLocatedIn |
Atlantic Ocean
ⓘ
French Guiana ⓘ Suriname ⓘ |
| partOf | Guianas ⓘ |
| region | northeastern South America ⓘ |
| sourceCountry |
French Guiana
ⓘ
Suriname ⓘ |
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: Marowijne Description of subject: Marowijne is a major river in northeastern South America that forms part of the border between Suriname and French Guiana.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Marowijne