野洲川
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野洲川 is a river in Shiga Prefecture, Japan, that flows into Lake Biwa and is known for its role in local agriculture and flood control.
All labels observed (3)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10824907 — 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: 野洲川 Context triple: [Yasu River, hasJapaneseName, 野洲川]
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A.
富士川
富士川は、山梨県と静岡県を流れ駿河湾に注ぐ、日本有数の急流として知られる大河川である。
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B.
阿賀野川
阿賀野川は福島県から新潟県へと流れ日本海に注ぐ、日本有数の流域面積と水力発電・灌漑機能を持つ大河川である。
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C.
木曽川
木曽川 is a major river in central Japan that flows through the Kiso Valley and is known for its scenic beauty and historical importance as part of the Nōbi Plain river system.
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D.
淀川
淀川は、滋賀県の琵琶湖を水源として京都・大阪を流れ大阪湾へ注ぐ近畿地方を代表する大河川です。
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E.
天神川
天神川は兵庫県伊丹市を流れる中小河川で、市街地の治水や景観に寄与している川です。
- 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: 野洲川 Target entity description: 野洲川 is a river in Shiga Prefecture, Japan, that flows into Lake Biwa and is known for its role in local agriculture and flood control.
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A.
富士川
富士川は、山梨県と静岡県を流れ駿河湾に注ぐ、日本有数の急流として知られる大河川である。
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B.
阿賀野川
阿賀野川は福島県から新潟県へと流れ日本海に注ぐ、日本有数の流域面積と水力発電・灌漑機能を持つ大河川である。
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C.
木曽川
木曽川 is a major river in central Japan that flows through the Kiso Valley and is known for its scenic beauty and historical importance as part of the Nōbi Plain river system.
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D.
淀川
淀川は、滋賀県の琵琶湖を水源として京都・大阪を流れ大阪湾へ注ぐ近畿地方を代表する大河川です。
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E.
天神川
天神川は兵庫県伊丹市を流れる中小河川で、市街地の治水や景観に寄与している川です。
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | river ⓘ |
| basinCountry | Japan ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| flowsInto | Lake Biwa ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
Kōka area
ⓘ
Moriyama City NERFINISHED ⓘ Rittō City NERFINISHED ⓘ Yasu City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEconomicRole |
supports other crop farming
ⓘ
supports rice cultivation ⓘ |
| hasEnglishName | Yasu River ⓘ |
| hasEnvironmentalRole |
provides freshwater to Lake Biwa
ⓘ
supports riparian ecosystems ⓘ |
| hasFloodHistory | subject to historical flooding events ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
drainage of surrounding basin
ⓘ
flood mitigation ⓘ supports local agriculture ⓘ |
| hasHydrologicalRole | major inflow to Lake Biwa ⓘ |
| hasInfrastructure |
irrigation channels
ⓘ
levees for flood control ⓘ |
| hasJapaneseName | 野洲川 ⓘ |
| hasMouth | Lake Biwa ⓘ |
| hasUse |
domestic water supply in surrounding areas
ⓘ
industrial water supply in surrounding areas ⓘ |
| isTributaryType | inflow river of Lake Biwa ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Shiga Prefecture ⓘ |
| locatedInPrefecture | Shiga Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Kansai region ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Ōtsu area of Shiga Prefecture ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | Asia ⓘ |
| managedBy | local river authorities in Shiga Prefecture ⓘ |
| mouthLocatedIn | Shiga Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Lake Biwa watershed
ⓘ
Yodo River system ⓘ
linked to:
Yodo River basin
|
| tributaryOf | Lake Biwa water system ⓘ |
| usedFor |
agricultural irrigation
ⓘ
flood control ⓘ |
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: 野洲川 Description of subject: 野洲川 is a river in Shiga Prefecture, Japan, that flows into Lake Biwa and is known for its role in local agriculture and flood control.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.