Cottonwood River
E281977
The Cottonwood River is a tributary of the Neosho River in central Kansas, flowing through the city of Emporia and the surrounding prairie landscape.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cottonwood River canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1231914 — 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: Cottonwood River Context triple: [Emporia, Kansas, hasRiver, Cottonwood River]
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A.
Red Cedar River
The Red Cedar River is a tributary of the Grand River in Michigan that flows through the campus of Michigan State University and the city of East Lansing.
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B.
Necanicum River
The Necanicum River is a coastal river in northwestern Oregon that flows through Clatsop County to the Pacific Ocean near the city of Seaside.
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C.
Chena River
The Chena River is a tributary of the Tanana River in interior Alaska that flows through the city of Fairbanks and is central to its recreation, scenery, and occasional flooding.
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D.
Boise River
The Boise River is a major waterway in southwestern Idaho that flows through the city of Boise and is central to the region’s recreation, irrigation, and ecology.
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E.
Walker River
Walker River is a river in eastern California and western Nevada that flows from the Sierra Nevada through arid valleys into Walker Lake, providing vital water for ecosystems and agriculture in the region.
- 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: Cottonwood River Target entity description: The Cottonwood River is a tributary of the Neosho River in central Kansas, flowing through the city of Emporia and the surrounding prairie landscape.
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A.
Red Cedar River
The Red Cedar River is a tributary of the Grand River in Michigan that flows through the campus of Michigan State University and the city of East Lansing.
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B.
Necanicum River
The Necanicum River is a coastal river in northwestern Oregon that flows through Clatsop County to the Pacific Ocean near the city of Seaside.
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C.
Chena River
The Chena River is a tributary of the Tanana River in interior Alaska that flows through the city of Fairbanks and is central to its recreation, scenery, and occasional flooding.
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D.
Boise River
The Boise River is a major waterway in southwestern Idaho that flows through the city of Boise and is central to the region’s recreation, irrigation, and ecology.
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E.
Walker River
Walker River is a river in eastern California and western Nevada that flows from the Sierra Nevada through arid valleys into Walker Lake, providing vital water for ecosystems and agriculture in the region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | river ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| drainageBasinLocatedIn | Kansas ⓘ |
| flowsGenerallyToward | southeast ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
Chase County
ⓘ
surface form:
Chase County, Kansas
Emporia, Kansas ⓘ Lyon County, Kansas ⓘ Marion County, Kansas ⓘ |
| flowsThroughLandscape | prairie ⓘ |
| flowsThroughRegion |
Flint Hills
ⓘ
Great Plains ⓘ |
| hasEcosystem |
prairie river ecosystem
ⓘ
riparian habitat ⓘ |
| hasFloodRisk | yes ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Kansas
ⓘ
Central Kansas ⓘ
surface form:
central Kansas
|
| mouthLocatedIn |
Kansas
ⓘ
Neosho River ⓘ |
| namedAfter | cottonwood trees ⓘ |
| partOf |
Arkansas River region
ⓘ
surface form:
Arkansas River basin
Mississippi River watershed ⓘ Neosho River ⓘ
surface form:
Neosho River watershed
|
| passesNear | Emporia State University ⓘ |
| tributaryOf | Neosho River ⓘ |
| usedFor |
boating
ⓘ
fishing ⓘ recreation ⓘ |
| watercourseType | tributary ⓘ |
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: Cottonwood River Description of subject: The Cottonwood River is a tributary of the Neosho River in central Kansas, flowing through the city of Emporia and the surrounding prairie landscape.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.