Ford River
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Ford River is a waterway in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that flows into Lake Michigan and lends its name to the surrounding Ford River Township.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ford River canonical | 1 |
| Ford River (via watershed proximity and minor connections) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12970263 — 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: Ford River Context triple: [Ford River Township, Michigan, namedAfter, Ford River]
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A.
Broad River
Broad River is a major waterway in central South Carolina that flows through the Columbia area and contributes to the Congaree River system.
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B.
Long River
Long River is the English translation of the Chinese name for the Yangtze, Asia’s longest river and a major waterway in China.
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C.
Union River
The Union River is a small river in Mason County, Washington, that flows into Hood Canal near the community of Belfair.
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D.
Jackson River
The Jackson River is a major headwater stream in western Virginia that joins with the Cowpasture River to form the James River.
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E.
Train River
The Train River is a smaller watercourse in Belgium that serves as a tributary within the Dyle River basin.
- 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: Ford River Target entity description: Ford River is a waterway in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that flows into Lake Michigan and lends its name to the surrounding Ford River Township.
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A.
Broad River
Broad River is a major waterway in central South Carolina that flows through the Columbia area and contributes to the Congaree River system.
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B.
Long River
Long River is the English translation of the Chinese name for the Yangtze, Asia’s longest river and a major waterway in China.
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C.
Union River
The Union River is a small river in Mason County, Washington, that flows into Hood Canal near the community of Belfair.
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D.
Jackson River
The Jackson River is a major headwater stream in western Virginia that joins with the Cowpasture River to form the James River.
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E.
Train River
The Train River is a smaller watercourse in Belgium that serves as a tributary within the Dyle River basin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
river
ⓘ
waterway ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| flowsInto | Lake Michigan ⓘ |
| hasMouthElevation | approximately 177 meters ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Delta County, Michigan ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone (seasonally) ⓘ |
| mouth | Lake Michigan ⓘ |
| namesakeOf | Ford River Township, Michigan ⓘ |
| partOf | Great Lakes Basin ⓘ |
| region | Upper Peninsula of Michigan ⓘ |
| state |
Michigan
ⓘ
linked to:
Michigan (most of state)
|
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: Ford River Description of subject: Ford River is a waterway in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that flows into Lake Michigan and lends its name to the surrounding Ford River Township.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ford River