Volta River
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The Volta River is a major river system in West Africa that flows primarily through Ghana, where it feeds Lake Volta, one of the world’s largest artificial reservoirs.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Volta River canonical | 40 |
| Lower Volta | 1 |
| Lower Volta River | 1 |
| Middle Volta | 1 |
| Volta River basin | 1 |
| Volta River estuary | 1 |
| Volta River system | 1 |
| White Volta River | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T540174 — 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: Volta River Context triple: [West Africa, hasMajorRiver, Volta River]
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A.
Benue River
The Benue River is a major West African waterway and the largest tributary of the Niger River, flowing through Cameroon and Nigeria and serving as an important route for transport, agriculture, and fishing.
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B.
Ogooué River
The Ogooué River is the principal waterway of Gabon, flowing across the country to the Atlantic Ocean and serving as a vital ecological and transportation corridor in Central Africa.
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C.
Niger River
The Niger River is a major West African river that flows in a great arc through countries including Guinea, Mali, Niger, and Nigeria before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean.
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D.
Morant River
Morant River is a river in eastern Jamaica that flows through the parish of St. Thomas before emptying into the Caribbean Sea.
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E.
Senegal River
The Senegal River is a major West African waterway that flows through Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, and Senegal before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean, serving as an important source of irrigation, transport, and hydroelectric power.
- 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: Volta River Target entity description: The Volta River is a major river system in West Africa that flows primarily through Ghana, where it feeds Lake Volta, one of the world’s largest artificial reservoirs.
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A.
Benue River
The Benue River is a major West African waterway and the largest tributary of the Niger River, flowing through Cameroon and Nigeria and serving as an important route for transport, agriculture, and fishing.
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B.
Ogooué River
The Ogooué River is the principal waterway of Gabon, flowing across the country to the Atlantic Ocean and serving as a vital ecological and transportation corridor in Central Africa.
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C.
Niger River
The Niger River is a major West African river that flows in a great arc through countries including Guinea, Mali, Niger, and Nigeria before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean.
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D.
Morant River
Morant River is a river in eastern Jamaica that flows through the parish of St. Thomas before emptying into the Caribbean Sea.
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E.
Senegal River
The Senegal River is a major West African waterway that flows through Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, and Senegal before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean, serving as an important source of irrigation, transport, and hydroelectric power.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Volta River Description of subject: The Volta River is a major river system in West Africa that flows primarily through Ghana, where it feeds Lake Volta, one of the world’s largest artificial reservoirs.
Referenced by (47)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
Volta Region of Ghana
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