Great Stour
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The Great Stour is a major river in Kent, England, flowing through towns such as Ashford and Canterbury before reaching the English Channel.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Great Stour canonical | 7 |
| Great Stour river (near Ashford) | 1 |
| Great Stour through Kent | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9773647 — 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: Great Stour Context triple: [Plucks Gutter, waterway, Great Stour]
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A.
River Darent
River Darent is a chalk stream river in Kent, England, flowing north through the Darent Valley to join the River Thames.
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B.
River Chelmer
The River Chelmer is a river in Essex, England, that flows through the city of Chelmsford before joining the River Blackwater near Maldon.
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C.
River Hamble
The River Hamble is a river in Hampshire, England, renowned as a major yachting and boating centre and for its scenic, wooded estuary.
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D.
Werse
The Werse is a river in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, known for flowing through the Münster region before joining the Ems.
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E.
River Wey
The River Wey is a tributary of the River Thames in southern England, flowing through Hampshire and Surrey and historically important for navigation and trade.
- 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: Great Stour Target entity description: The Great Stour is a major river in Kent, England, flowing through towns such as Ashford and Canterbury before reaching the English Channel.
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A.
River Darent
River Darent is a chalk stream river in Kent, England, flowing north through the Darent Valley to join the River Thames.
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B.
River Chelmer
The River Chelmer is a river in Essex, England, that flows through the city of Chelmsford before joining the River Blackwater near Maldon.
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C.
River Hamble
The River Hamble is a river in Hampshire, England, renowned as a major yachting and boating centre and for its scenic, wooded estuary.
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D.
Werse
The Werse is a river in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, known for flowing through the Münster region before joining the Ems.
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E.
River Wey
The River Wey is a tributary of the River Thames in southern England, flowing through Hampshire and Surrey and historically important for navigation and trade.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | river ⓘ |
| basinCountry | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| crosses | Ashford Green Corridor ⓘ |
| dischargesInto | English Channel ⓘ |
| drainageBasin | English Channel basin ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
Ashford
ⓘ
Canterbury ⓘ Chilham ⓘ Fordwich ⓘ Lenham ⓘ
linked to:
Lenham, Kent
Pluckley ⓘ Sturry ⓘ Wye ⓘ |
| hasName | Great Stour ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Stour Valley
ⓘ
linked to:
Great Stour valley
Stour Valley Walk ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
England
ⓘ
Kent ⓘ South East England ⓘ |
| mouthLocatedIn |
English Channel
ⓘ
Pegwell Bay ⓘ near Sandwich ⓘ |
| nameLanguage | English ⓘ |
| near | Canterbury Cathedral ⓘ |
| partOf | Stour river system in Kent ⓘ |
| region | East Kent ⓘ |
| sourceLocatedIn |
Lenham
ⓘ
linked to:
Lenham, Kent
North Downs ⓘ |
| tributary |
East Stour
ⓘ
River Beult ⓘ River Wantsum (historic) ⓘ
linked to:
River Wantsum
|
| usedFor |
angling
ⓘ
boating ⓘ recreation ⓘ |
| watercourseType |
non-tidal river (in upper reaches)
ⓘ
partly tidal river (near mouth) ⓘ |
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: Great Stour Description of subject: The Great Stour is a major river in Kent, England, flowing through towns such as Ashford and Canterbury before reaching the English Channel.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Great Stour
linked to: Great Stour