Vils
E908008
Vils is a river in Bavaria, Germany, that flows into the Danube near the town of Vilshofen an der Donau.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vils canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11135557 — 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: Vils Context triple: [Vilshofen an der Donau, locatedOnRiver, Vils]
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A.
Vils
Vils is a river in Bavaria, Germany, known for flowing through the Alpine foothills before joining the Isar.
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B.
Pleiße
Pleiße is a river in eastern Germany that flows through the city of Leipzig and is a tributary of the White Elster.
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C.
Vechigen
Vechigen is a rural municipality in the canton of Bern, Switzerland, known for its scattered settlements and agricultural landscape near the city of Bern.
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D.
Kleine Brenz
Kleine Brenz is a small river in southern Germany that serves as a tributary of the Brenz.
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E.
Viechtach
Viechtach is a small town in the Bavarian Forest region of southeastern Germany, known for its scenic landscapes and outdoor recreation.
- 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: Vils Target entity description: Vils is a river in Bavaria, Germany, that flows into the Danube near the town of Vilshofen an der Donau.
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A.
Vils
Vils is a river in Bavaria, Germany, known for flowing through the Alpine foothills before joining the Isar.
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B.
Pleiße
Pleiße is a river in eastern Germany that flows through the city of Leipzig and is a tributary of the White Elster.
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C.
Vechigen
Vechigen is a rural municipality in the canton of Bern, Switzerland, known for its scattered settlements and agricultural landscape near the city of Bern.
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D.
Kleine Brenz
Kleine Brenz is a small river in southern Germany that serves as a tributary of the Brenz.
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E.
Viechtach
Viechtach is a small town in the Bavarian Forest region of southeastern Germany, known for its scenic landscapes and outdoor recreation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | river ⓘ |
| basinCountry | Germany ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Germany ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
Bavaria
ⓘ
Germany ⓘ |
| geographicFeatureClass | inland water body ⓘ |
| hasMouthInRegion | Lower Bavaria ⓘ |
| hasMouthPositionRelativeTo |
near Vilshofen an der Donau
ⓘ
near the town of Vilshofen an der Donau ⓘ |
| hasName | Vils ⓘ |
| hydrologicalOrder | right tributary of the Danube ⓘ |
| isInAdministrativeTerritory |
Federal Republic of Germany
ⓘ
linked to:
Germany
State of Bavaria ⓘ
linked to:
Federal state of Bavaria
|
| locatedIn |
Bavaria
ⓘ
Germany ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
| mouthLocatedIn |
Bavaria
ⓘ
Germany ⓘ Vilshofen an der Donau ⓘ |
| mouthOfWaterBody | Danube ⓘ |
| nameLanguage | German ⓘ |
| partOf |
Danube river system
ⓘ
linked to:
Danube River basin
|
| tributaryOf | Danube ⓘ |
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: Vils Description of subject: Vils is a river in Bavaria, Germany, that flows into the Danube near the town of Vilshofen an der Donau.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.