Mindel
E798931
The Mindel is a river in Bavaria, Germany, that flows through the Swabian region and ultimately drains into the Danube.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mindel canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9440784 — 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: Mindel Context triple: [Augsburg district, hasRiver, Mindel]
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A.
Mindel
Mindel is a surname most notably associated with Dan Mindel, a prominent cinematographer known for his work on major Hollywood films.
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B.
Mindelheim
Mindelheim is a historic town in Bavaria, Germany, known for its well-preserved medieval old town and former status as a princely seat.
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C.
Baltus
Baltus is a fictional character best known as the wealthy farmer and father of Katrina Van Tassel in Washington Irving’s short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”
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D.
Vianen
Vianen is a historic Dutch town known for its medieval city center and location near major rivers in the western Netherlands.
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E.
Magdelon
Magdelon is one of the two naive, pretentious young women satirized for their affected manners and romantic fantasies in Molière’s comedy *Les Précieuses ridicules*.
- 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: Mindel Target entity description: The Mindel is a river in Bavaria, Germany, that flows through the Swabian region and ultimately drains into the Danube.
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A.
Mindel
Mindel is a surname most notably associated with Dan Mindel, a prominent cinematographer known for his work on major Hollywood films.
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B.
Mindelheim
Mindelheim is a historic town in Bavaria, Germany, known for its well-preserved medieval old town and former status as a princely seat.
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C.
Baltus
Baltus is a fictional character best known as the wealthy farmer and father of Katrina Van Tassel in Washington Irving’s short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”
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D.
Vianen
Vianen is a historic Dutch town known for its medieval city center and location near major rivers in the western Netherlands.
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E.
Magdelon
Magdelon is one of the two naive, pretentious young women satirized for their affected manners and romantic fantasies in Molière’s comedy *Les Précieuses ridicules*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | river ⓘ |
| basinCountry | Germany ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flowsGenerallyTowards | north ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
Bavaria
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Swabia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geographicRegion | southern Bavaria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBasinSize | about 953 square kilometres ⓘ |
| hasLength | about 78 kilometres ⓘ |
| hasMouthElevation | about 440 metres above sea level ⓘ |
| hasMouthNear | Günzburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSourceCountry | Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSourceRegion | Bavaria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Bavaria
ⓘ
Swabia NERFINISHED ⓘ southern Germany ⓘ |
| mouthCountry | Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mouthLocatedIn | Danube NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mouthState | Bavaria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nameLanguage | German ⓘ |
| partOf | hydrological network of the Danube ⓘ |
| riverSystem | Danube basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tributaryDirection | right tributary of the Danube ⓘ |
| tributaryOf | Danube NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Mindel Description of subject: The Mindel is a river in Bavaria, Germany, that flows through the Swabian region and ultimately drains into the Danube.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Iller