Kourou River
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The Kourou River is a waterway in French Guiana that flows through the town of Kourou before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kourou River canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6781562 — 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: Kourou River Context triple: [Kourou, locatedOn, Kourou River]
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A.
Letaba River
The Letaba River is a major watercourse in northeastern South Africa that flows through the Kruger National Park, supporting diverse wildlife and ecosystems along its banks.
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B.
Aripuanã River
The Aripuanã River is a significant waterway in western Brazil that flows through the Amazon rainforest and ultimately joins the Madeira River, contributing to the Amazon Basin.
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C.
Bandia River
The Bandia River is a lesser-known river in India that serves as a tributary of the Indravati River within the Godavari basin.
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D.
Bokova River
The Bokova River is a smaller watercourse in Ukraine that serves as one of the tributaries feeding into the Inhulets River within the Dnieper basin.
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E.
Samiria River
The Samiria River is a major blackwater tributary of the Amazon in northeastern Peru, renowned for its rich biodiversity and extensive flooded forests.
- 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: Kourou River Target entity description: The Kourou River is a waterway in French Guiana that flows through the town of Kourou before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean.
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A.
Letaba River
The Letaba River is a major watercourse in northeastern South Africa that flows through the Kruger National Park, supporting diverse wildlife and ecosystems along its banks.
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B.
Aripuanã River
The Aripuanã River is a significant waterway in western Brazil that flows through the Amazon rainforest and ultimately joins the Madeira River, contributing to the Amazon Basin.
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C.
Bandia River
The Bandia River is a lesser-known river in India that serves as a tributary of the Indravati River within the Godavari basin.
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D.
Bokova River
The Bokova River is a smaller watercourse in Ukraine that serves as one of the tributaries feeding into the Inhulets River within the Dnieper basin.
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E.
Samiria River
The Samiria River is a major blackwater tributary of the Amazon in northeastern Peru, renowned for its rich biodiversity and extensive flooded forests.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
geographical feature
ⓘ
river ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
France
ⓘ
French Guiana ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| drainageBasin | coastal basin of French Guiana ⓘ |
| emptiesInto | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| flowsInDirection | generally northward ⓘ |
| flowsThrough | Kourou ⓘ |
| hasCountrySubdivision |
overseas department of French Guiana
ⓘ
linked to:
department of French Guiana
|
| hasEconomicUse |
fishing
ⓘ
local transport ⓘ |
| hasLanguageRegion | French ⓘ |
| hasMouthFeature | Atlantic coast of French Guiana ⓘ |
| hasMouthNear | Kourou ⓘ |
| hasNearbyFacility | Guiana Space Centre ⓘ |
| hasNearbySettlement | Kourou ⓘ |
| hasRecreationalUse |
boating
ⓘ
sport fishing ⓘ |
| locatedIn | French Guiana ⓘ |
| locatedInOverseasRegionOf | France ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | UTC−03:00 ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | South America ⓘ |
| mouth | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| partOf | river system of French Guiana ⓘ |
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: Kourou River Description of subject: The Kourou River is a waterway in French Guiana that flows through the town of Kourou before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.