Shoshone River
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The Shoshone River is a major waterway in northwestern Wyoming that flows through canyons and valleys near Yellowstone National Park before joining the Bighorn River.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shoshone River canonical | 15 |
| North Fork Shoshone River | 1 |
| Shoshone River drainage | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2591162 — 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: Shoshone River Context triple: [Cody, Wyoming, locatedOnRiver, Shoshone River]
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A.
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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B.
Owyhee River
The Owyhee River is a remote, scenic river in the Great Basin region of the western United States, known for its deep desert canyons, whitewater rafting, and important wildlife habitat.
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C.
Weiser River
The Weiser River is a river in western Idaho that flows through agricultural valleys and rugged canyons before joining the Snake River.
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D.
Shoshone
The Shoshone are a Native American people traditionally inhabiting regions of the Great Basin and Rocky Mountains, known for their distinct language, culture, and historical role in the American West.
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E.
Snake River
The Snake River is a major waterway in the northwestern United States that flows through Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington before joining the Columbia 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: Shoshone River Target entity description: The Shoshone River is a major waterway in northwestern Wyoming that flows through canyons and valleys near Yellowstone National Park before joining the Bighorn River.
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A.
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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B.
Owyhee River
The Owyhee River is a remote, scenic river in the Great Basin region of the western United States, known for its deep desert canyons, whitewater rafting, and important wildlife habitat.
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C.
Weiser River
The Weiser River is a river in western Idaho that flows through agricultural valleys and rugged canyons before joining the Snake River.
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D.
Shoshone
The Shoshone are a Native American people traditionally inhabiting regions of the Great Basin and Rocky Mountains, known for their distinct language, culture, and historical role in the American West.
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E.
Snake River
The Snake River is a major waterway in the northwestern United States that flows through Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington before joining the Columbia River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
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: Shoshone River Description of subject: The Shoshone River is a major waterway in northwestern Wyoming that flows through canyons and valleys near Yellowstone National Park before joining the Bighorn River.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Cody, Wyoming, United States
linked to: Shoshone River
subject linked to:
Park County
linked to: Shoshone River