Tittabawassee River
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The Tittabawassee River is a central waterway in central Michigan that flows through several counties and communities before joining the Saginaw River.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tittabawassee River canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2465108 — 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: Tittabawassee River Context triple: [Saginaw County, Michigan, hasMajorRiver, Tittabawassee River]
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A.
Macatawa River
The Macatawa River is a waterway in western Michigan that flows through the city of Holland into Lake Macatawa, providing scenic and recreational value to the surrounding area.
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B.
Huron River
The Huron River is a major river in southeastern Michigan known for flowing through communities like Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti and supporting extensive recreational activities and natural habitats.
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C.
Pere Marquette River
The Pere Marquette River is a scenic, free-flowing river in western Michigan renowned for its trout and salmon fishing, paddling opportunities, and largely undeveloped natural surroundings.
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D.
Saginaw River
The Saginaw River is a major river in Michigan that drains a large portion of the state's Lower Peninsula and flows into Saginaw Bay on Lake Huron.
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E.
Chippewa Creek
Chippewa Creek is a smaller stream in Michigan that serves as one of the tributaries feeding into the Muskegon River.
- 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: Tittabawassee River Target entity description: The Tittabawassee River is a central waterway in central Michigan that flows through several counties and communities before joining the Saginaw River.
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A.
Macatawa River
The Macatawa River is a waterway in western Michigan that flows through the city of Holland into Lake Macatawa, providing scenic and recreational value to the surrounding area.
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B.
Huron River
The Huron River is a major river in southeastern Michigan known for flowing through communities like Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti and supporting extensive recreational activities and natural habitats.
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C.
Pere Marquette River
The Pere Marquette River is a scenic, free-flowing river in western Michigan renowned for its trout and salmon fishing, paddling opportunities, and largely undeveloped natural surroundings.
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D.
Saginaw River
The Saginaw River is a major river in Michigan that drains a large portion of the state's Lower Peninsula and flows into Saginaw Bay on Lake Huron.
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E.
Chippewa Creek
Chippewa Creek is a smaller stream in Michigan that serves as one of the tributaries feeding into the Muskegon River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | river ⓘ |
| affectedBy |
Edenville Dam failure
ⓘ
Sanford Dam failure ⓘ |
| basinCountry | United States of America ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| crosses |
Dow Dam
ⓘ
Edenville Dam ⓘ Sanford Dam ⓘ |
| drainageBasin | Lake Huron drainage basin ⓘ |
| flowsInto | Saginaw River ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
Gladwin County, Michigan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Midland County, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Midland, Michigan ⓘ Saginaw County, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Saginaw, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Sanford, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBridge |
M-20 bridge in Midland
ⓘ
US Highway 10 bridge in Midland ⓘ |
| hasCityOnBank |
Midland, Michigan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Saginaw, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEnvironmentalIssue |
dioxin contamination
ⓘ
flooding ⓘ |
| hasFloodEvent | 2020 Midland flood ⓘ |
| hasRecreationArea | Tittabawassee River State Game Area ⓘ |
| hasTributary |
Chippewa River
ⓘ
Chippewa River ⓘ
surface form:
Chippewa River (Michigan)
Little Salt River (Michigan) ⓘ Molasses River (Michigan) ⓘ Pine River (Michigan) ⓘ Little Salt River (Michigan) ⓘ
surface form:
Salt River (Michigan)
Molasses River (Michigan) ⓘ
surface form:
Sugar River (Michigan)
Tobacco River (Michigan) ⓘ |
| hasUse |
boating
ⓘ
fishing ⓘ hydroelectric power ⓘ recreation ⓘ |
| hasWatershed | Tittabawassee River watershed ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Great Lakes Basin ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Michigan
ⓘ
Central Michigan ⓘ
surface form:
central Michigan
|
| mouthOfWatercourse | Saginaw River ⓘ |
| near | Dow Chemical Company facilities in Midland ⓘ |
| partOf | Saginaw River watershed ⓘ |
| region |
Mid-Michigan
ⓘ
surface form:
Mid Michigan
|
| sourceLocation | near Prudenville, Michigan ⓘ |
| state |
Michigan (most of state)
ⓘ
surface form:
Michigan
|
| tributaryOf | Saginaw River ⓘ |
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: Tittabawassee River Description of subject: The Tittabawassee River is a central waterway in central Michigan that flows through several counties and communities before joining the Saginaw River.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Chippewa River (Michigan)
subject surface form:
Chippewa River (Michigan)