Modder River
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Modder River is a river in South Africa notable as the site of a major battle during the Second Boer War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Modder River canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10136187 — 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: Modder River Context triple: [Battle of Modder River, location, Modder River]
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A.
Carson River
The Carson River is a significant river in the western United States that flows through eastern California and western Nevada, playing a key role in the region’s ecology, agriculture, and water supply.
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B.
Colbert River
Colbert River is a waterway named in honor of the American comedian and television host Stephen Colbert.
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C.
Constitution River
Constitution River is a small waterway flowing through Bridgetown, the capital of Barbados, playing an important role in the city’s drainage and coastal environment.
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D.
Tuba River
The Tuba River is a significant river in Siberia, Russia, known for flowing through the Krasnoyarsk region and contributing to the vast Yenisei River basin.
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E.
Weiser River
The Weiser River is a river in western Idaho that flows through agricultural valleys and rugged canyons before joining the Snake River.
- 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: Modder River Target entity description: Modder River is a river in South Africa notable as the site of a major battle during the Second Boer War.
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A.
Carson River
The Carson River is a significant river in the western United States that flows through eastern California and western Nevada, playing a key role in the region’s ecology, agriculture, and water supply.
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B.
Colbert River
Colbert River is a waterway named in honor of the American comedian and television host Stephen Colbert.
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C.
Constitution River
Constitution River is a small waterway flowing through Bridgetown, the capital of Barbados, playing an important role in the city’s drainage and coastal environment.
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D.
Tuba River
The Tuba River is a significant river in Siberia, Russia, known for flowing through the Krasnoyarsk region and contributing to the vast Yenisei River basin.
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E.
Weiser River
The Weiser River is a river in western Idaho that flows through agricultural valleys and rugged canyons before joining the Snake River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
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: Modder River Description of subject: Modder River is a river in South Africa notable as the site of a major battle during the Second Boer War.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.