Grande River (São Francisco tributary)
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The Grande River is a significant watercourse in southeastern Brazil that drains parts of Minas Gerais and São Paulo states before joining other rivers to form the upper São Francisco River basin.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Grande River (São Francisco tributary) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10071577 — 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: Grande River (São Francisco tributary) Context triple: [São Francisco River, majorTributary, Grande River (São Francisco tributary)]
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A.
São Francisco River
The São Francisco River is one of Brazil's longest and most important rivers, flowing through several states in the northeast and southeast and serving as a key source of water, transportation, and hydroelectric power.
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B.
San Francisco River
The San Francisco River is a major river in the southwestern United States that flows through eastern Arizona and western New Mexico, known for its rugged canyon landscapes and ecological significance in the region.
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C.
Pinheiros River
The Pinheiros River is a heavily urbanized waterway running through São Paulo, Brazil, known for its role in the city’s drainage and transport infrastructure as well as its severe pollution.
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D.
Chico River
The Chico River is a significant waterway in the northern Philippines, known for supporting agriculture, local communities, and historical indigenous resistance to large dam projects.
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E.
San Rafael River
The San Rafael River is a tributary of the Green River in central Utah, known for carving deep canyons through the San Rafael Swell and surrounding desert landscapes.
- 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: Grande River (São Francisco tributary) Target entity description: The Grande River is a significant watercourse in southeastern Brazil that drains parts of Minas Gerais and São Paulo states before joining other rivers to form the upper São Francisco River basin.
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A.
São Francisco River
The São Francisco River is one of Brazil's longest and most important rivers, flowing through several states in the northeast and southeast and serving as a key source of water, transportation, and hydroelectric power.
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B.
San Francisco River
The San Francisco River is a major river in the southwestern United States that flows through eastern Arizona and western New Mexico, known for its rugged canyon landscapes and ecological significance in the region.
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C.
Pinheiros River
The Pinheiros River is a heavily urbanized waterway running through São Paulo, Brazil, known for its role in the city’s drainage and transport infrastructure as well as its severe pollution.
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D.
Chico River
The Chico River is a significant waterway in the northern Philippines, known for supporting agriculture, local communities, and historical indigenous resistance to large dam projects.
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E.
San Rafael River
The San Rafael River is a tributary of the Green River in central Utah, known for carving deep canyons through the San Rafael Swell and surrounding desert landscapes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | river ⓘ |
| basinCountry | Brazil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | South America ⓘ |
| country | Brazil ⓘ |
| drainageBasin | upper São Francisco River basin ⓘ |
| drains |
parts of Minas Gerais
ⓘ
parts of São Paulo (state) ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
Minas Gerais
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
São Paulo (state) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| forms | upper São Francisco River basin ⓘ |
| hasMouthIn | São Francisco River basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hydrologicalRole | major tributary of the São Francisco River system ⓘ |
| languageOfToponym | Portuguese ⓘ |
| locatedIn | southeastern Brazil ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | Big River in Portuguese ⓘ |
| partOf | São Francisco River basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Southeast Region, Brazil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tributaryOf | São Francisco River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| watercourseType | freshwater river ⓘ |
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: Grande River (São Francisco tributary) Description of subject: The Grande River is a significant watercourse in southeastern Brazil that drains parts of Minas Gerais and São Paulo states before joining other rivers to form the upper São Francisco River basin.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.