Meeting of the Waters
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Meeting of the Waters is a celebrated outdoor fountain and sculpture in St. Louis, Missouri, created by Swedish sculptor Carl Milles to symbolize the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Meeting of the Waters canonical | 3 |
| Meeting of the Waters in St. Louis | 1 |
| The Meeting of the Waters | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1245374 — 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: Meeting of the Waters Context triple: [Carl Milles, notableWork, Meeting of the Waters]
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A.
Coco River
The Coco River is a major Central American river forming much of the border between Nicaragua and Honduras and flowing into the Caribbean Sea.
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B.
San Juan River
The San Juan River is a major Central American waterway forming part of the border between Nicaragua and Costa Rica and providing a historic route from the Caribbean Sea toward Lake Nicaragua.
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C.
Canaima lagoon
Canaima Lagoon is a scenic body of water in Canaima National Park, Venezuela, known for its surrounding waterfalls, tepui cliffs, and boat access to Angel Falls.
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D.
Casiquiare canal
The Casiquiare canal is a rare natural river channel in Venezuela that uniquely links the Orinoco and Amazon river basins, allowing water to flow between two of South America’s largest river systems.
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E.
Croton Watershed
The Croton Watershed is a major reservoir system in southeastern New York that supplies a significant portion of New York City’s drinking water.
- 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: Meeting of the Waters Target entity description: Meeting of the Waters is a celebrated outdoor fountain and sculpture in St. Louis, Missouri, created by Swedish sculptor Carl Milles to symbolize the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers.
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A.
Coco River
The Coco River is a major Central American river forming much of the border between Nicaragua and Honduras and flowing into the Caribbean Sea.
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B.
San Juan River
The San Juan River is a major Central American waterway forming part of the border between Nicaragua and Costa Rica and providing a historic route from the Caribbean Sea toward Lake Nicaragua.
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C.
Canaima lagoon
Canaima Lagoon is a scenic body of water in Canaima National Park, Venezuela, known for its surrounding waterfalls, tepui cliffs, and boat access to Angel Falls.
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D.
Casiquiare canal
The Casiquiare canal is a rare natural river channel in Venezuela that uniquely links the Orinoco and Amazon river basins, allowing water to flow between two of South America’s largest river systems.
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E.
Croton Watershed
The Croton Watershed is a major reservoir system in southeastern New York that supplies a significant portion of New York City’s drinking water.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fountain
ⓘ
outdoor sculpture ⓘ public artwork ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Carl Milles ⓘ |
| depicts | allegorical figures representing rivers ⓘ |
| genre | allegorical sculpture ⓘ |
| hasAuthor | Carl Milles ⓘ |
| hasPart |
central fountain basin
ⓘ
sculptural figures ⓘ |
| hasQuality | celebrated ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | notable public art in St. Louis ⓘ |
| inception | 20th century ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Missouri
ⓘ
St. Louis Union Station ⓘ
surface form:
St. Louis Union Station area
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| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| location |
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
St. Louis, Missouri
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| mainSubject |
Mississippi River
ⓘ
Missouri River ⓘ |
| materialUsed |
bronze
ⓘ
stone ⓘ |
| partOf | public art of St. Louis, Missouri ⓘ |
| symbolizes | confluence of the Mississippi River and the Missouri River ⓘ |
| title | Meeting of the Waters self-link ⓘ |
| use | public fountain ⓘ |
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: Meeting of the Waters Description of subject: Meeting of the Waters is a celebrated outdoor fountain and sculpture in St. Louis, Missouri, created by Swedish sculptor Carl Milles to symbolize the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Carl Milles
this entity surface form:
The Meeting of the Waters
subject surface form:
Carl Milles
this entity surface form:
Meeting of the Waters in St. Louis
subject surface form:
Carl Milles