Spokane River
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The Spokane River is a significant waterway in the northwestern United States that flows through northern Idaho and eastern Washington, including the city of Spokane, before joining the Columbia River.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Spokane River canonical | 19 |
| Spokane River watershed | 2 |
| Spokane River valley | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T609978 — 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: Spokane River Context triple: [Columbia River, majorTributary, Spokane River]
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A.
Lewis River
The Lewis River is a tributary of the Columbia River in southwestern Washington State, known for its hydroelectric dams, scenic gorges, and popular fishing and recreation areas.
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B.
Deschutes River
The Deschutes River is a major river in central Oregon known for its scenic canyons, world-class fly fishing, and popular whitewater rafting and recreation opportunities.
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C.
Columbia River
The Columbia River is a major river of the Pacific Northwest that forms much of the border between Oregon and Washington and is vital for hydroelectric power, transportation, and regional ecosystems.
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D.
Duwamish
The Duwamish are a Coast Salish Native American people indigenous to the Seattle, Washington area, with deep historical, cultural, and spiritual ties to the region’s waterways and lands.
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E.
Spokane Falls
Spokane Falls is a prominent series of waterfalls on the Spokane River in downtown Spokane, Washington, known as a central natural and historical feature of the city.
- 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: Spokane River Target entity description: The Spokane River is a significant waterway in the northwestern United States that flows through northern Idaho and eastern Washington, including the city of Spokane, before joining the Columbia River.
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A.
Lewis River
The Lewis River is a tributary of the Columbia River in southwestern Washington State, known for its hydroelectric dams, scenic gorges, and popular fishing and recreation areas.
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B.
Deschutes River
The Deschutes River is a major river in central Oregon known for its scenic canyons, world-class fly fishing, and popular whitewater rafting and recreation opportunities.
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C.
Columbia River
The Columbia River is a major river of the Pacific Northwest that forms much of the border between Oregon and Washington and is vital for hydroelectric power, transportation, and regional ecosystems.
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D.
Duwamish
The Duwamish are a Coast Salish Native American people indigenous to the Seattle, Washington area, with deep historical, cultural, and spiritual ties to the region’s waterways and lands.
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E.
Spokane Falls
Spokane Falls is a prominent series of waterfalls on the Spokane River in downtown Spokane, Washington, known as a central natural and historical feature of the city.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Spokane River Description of subject: The Spokane River is a significant waterway in the northwestern United States that flows through northern Idaho and eastern Washington, including the city of Spokane, before joining the Columbia River.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Eastern Washington
this entity surface form:
Spokane River valley
this entity surface form:
Spokane River watershed
this entity surface form:
Spokane River watershed