Wabash River
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The Wabash River is a major Midwestern U.S. river that forms much of the border between Indiana and Illinois before flowing southwest to join the Ohio River.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wabash River canonical | 38 |
| Wabash River watershed | 5 |
| Wabash River (Indiana and Illinois) | 1 |
| Wabash River system | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T574065 — 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: Wabash River Context triple: [Illinois, hasMajorRiver, Wabash River]
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A.
Illinois River
The Illinois River is a principal waterway in the U.S. state of Illinois that serves as a key tributary of the Mississippi River and an important route for transportation, commerce, and recreation.
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B.
Iowa River
The Iowa River is a major waterway in the U.S. state of Iowa that flows generally southeastward and ultimately joins the Mississippi River.
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C.
Sangamon River
The Sangamon River is a central Illinois waterway that flows through several counties, including the city of Springfield, before joining the Illinois River.
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D.
Ohio River
The Ohio River is a major waterway in the eastern United States that forms part of several state borders and serves as a key tributary of the Mississippi River.
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E.
Fox River
The Fox River is a Midwestern U.S. river that flows through Wisconsin and Illinois, supporting numerous communities and ecosystems along its course.
- 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: Wabash River Target entity description: The Wabash River is a major Midwestern U.S. river that forms much of the border between Indiana and Illinois before flowing southwest to join the Ohio River.
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A.
Illinois River
The Illinois River is a principal waterway in the U.S. state of Illinois that serves as a key tributary of the Mississippi River and an important route for transportation, commerce, and recreation.
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B.
Iowa River
The Iowa River is a major waterway in the U.S. state of Iowa that flows generally southeastward and ultimately joins the Mississippi River.
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C.
Sangamon River
The Sangamon River is a central Illinois waterway that flows through several counties, including the city of Springfield, before joining the Illinois River.
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D.
Ohio River
The Ohio River is a major waterway in the eastern United States that forms part of several state borders and serves as a key tributary of the Mississippi River.
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E.
Fox River
The Fox River is a Midwestern U.S. river that flows through Wisconsin and Illinois, supporting numerous communities and ecosystems along its course.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Wabash River Description of subject: The Wabash River is a major Midwestern U.S. river that forms much of the border between Indiana and Illinois before flowing southwest to join the Ohio River.
Referenced by (45)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
White River (Indiana)
subject surface form:
White River (Indiana)
this entity surface form:
Wabash River watershed
subject surface form:
West Lafayette, Indiana
subject surface form:
Peru, Indiana
subject surface form:
Peru, Indiana
subject surface form:
Southern Illinois
this entity surface form:
Wabash River watershed
this entity surface form:
Wabash River watershed
this entity surface form:
Wabash River watershed
this entity surface form:
Wabash River watershed
this entity surface form:
Wabash River system
this entity surface form:
Wabash River (Indiana and Illinois)