Linth
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The Linth is a major river in eastern Switzerland that flows through the canton of Glarus before joining the Rhine.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Linth canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11605901 — 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: Linth Context triple: [Glarus, hasRiver, Linth]
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A.
Terling
Terling is a small rural village and civil parish in the county of Essex in eastern England, known for its historic buildings and countryside setting.
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B.
Tealing
Tealing is a small rural village in eastern Scotland, situated in the Angus council area just north of Dundee.
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C.
Linnton
Linnton is a riverside neighborhood in northwest Portland, Oregon, characterized by its mix of industrial areas, forested hillsides, and access to the Willamette River.
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D.
Tesseney
Tesseney is a town in western Eritrea near the Sudanese border, serving as a local commercial and agricultural center in the Gash-Barka region.
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E.
Linthouse
Linthouse is a district in the southwest of Glasgow, Scotland, historically associated with shipbuilding and located near the River Clyde.
- 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: Linth Target entity description: The Linth is a major river in eastern Switzerland that flows through the canton of Glarus before joining the Rhine.
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A.
Terling
Terling is a small rural village and civil parish in the county of Essex in eastern England, known for its historic buildings and countryside setting.
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B.
Tealing
Tealing is a small rural village in eastern Scotland, situated in the Angus council area just north of Dundee.
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C.
Linnton
Linnton is a riverside neighborhood in northwest Portland, Oregon, characterized by its mix of industrial areas, forested hillsides, and access to the Willamette River.
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D.
Tesseney
Tesseney is a town in western Eritrea near the Sudanese border, serving as a local commercial and agricultural center in the Gash-Barka region.
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E.
Linthouse
Linthouse is a district in the southwest of Glasgow, Scotland, historically associated with shipbuilding and located near the River Clyde.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | river ⓘ |
| basinCountry | Switzerland ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| crosses | Linth valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| drains | parts of the Glarus Alps ⓘ |
| emergesFrom | Walensee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flowsInto |
Lake Zurich system
ⓘ
Obersee (Lake Zurich) NERFINISHED ⓘ Walensee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flowsNear | Ziegelbrücke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
Glarus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Linth plain NERFINISHED ⓘ Linthal NERFINISHED ⓘ Netstal NERFINISHED ⓘ Näfels NERFINISHED ⓘ Weesen NERFINISHED ⓘ canton of Glarus NERFINISHED ⓘ canton of St. Gallen ⓘ |
| hasLength | about 50 km ⓘ |
| hasMajorHumanModification |
Linth canal
GENERATED
ⓘ
Linth correction GENERATED ⓘ |
| hasNameInLanguage |
Linth River@en
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Linth@de ⓘ Linth@fr ⓘ Linth@it ⓘ Linth@rm ⓘ |
| hasTributary |
Maag
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sernf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Alps
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
canton of Glarus NERFINISHED ⓘ eastern Switzerland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mouthOfWatercourse | Rhine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearbySettlement |
Glarus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Weesen NERFINISHED ⓘ Ziegelbrücke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Alpine river network
ⓘ
Linth–Limmat river system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region |
canton of Glarus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
canton of St. Gallen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| riverSystem | Rhine basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sourceLocation |
Glarus Alps
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
near Linth glacier ⓘ |
| tributaryOf | Rhine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
flood control
ⓘ
hydroelectric power generation ⓘ irrigation ⓘ recreation ⓘ |
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: Linth Description of subject: The Linth is a major river in eastern Switzerland that flows through the canton of Glarus before joining the Rhine.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.