Rock River basin
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The Rock River basin is the watershed region in the Upper Midwest of the United States that collects and channels water flowing into the Rock River and its tributaries.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rock River basin canonical | 4 |
| Rock River watershed | 3 |
| Rock River hydrologic unit | 1 |
| Rock River system | 1 |
| Yahara River–Rock River–Mississippi River watershed | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3568667 — 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: Rock River basin Context triple: [Rockford metropolitan area, drainageBasin, Rock River basin]
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Yazoo River basin
The Yazoo River basin is a major drainage area in northwestern Mississippi that collects waters from the Yazoo River and its tributaries before they flow into the Mississippi River.
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Rock River valley
Rock River valley is a historically significant river valley region in the Upper Midwest of the United States, known as a traditional homeland and cultural landscape of the Ho-Chunk people.
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Ohio River basin
The Ohio River basin is a major watershed in the eastern United States that collects runoff from numerous tributaries across multiple states before ultimately feeding into the Mississippi River system.
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Yahara River watershed
The Yahara River watershed is the drainage basin in south-central Wisconsin that collects water from lakes, streams, and surrounding lands feeding the Yahara River system.
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E.
Rock River
Rock River is a tributary of the Big Sioux River flowing through parts of Iowa and South Dakota in the United States.
- 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: Rock River basin Target entity description: The Rock River basin is the watershed region in the Upper Midwest of the United States that collects and channels water flowing into the Rock River and its tributaries.
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A.
Yazoo River basin
The Yazoo River basin is a major drainage area in northwestern Mississippi that collects waters from the Yazoo River and its tributaries before they flow into the Mississippi River.
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B.
Rock River valley
Rock River valley is a historically significant river valley region in the Upper Midwest of the United States, known as a traditional homeland and cultural landscape of the Ho-Chunk people.
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C.
Ohio River basin
The Ohio River basin is a major watershed in the eastern United States that collects runoff from numerous tributaries across multiple states before ultimately feeding into the Mississippi River system.
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D.
Yahara River watershed
The Yahara River watershed is the drainage basin in south-central Wisconsin that collects water from lakes, streams, and surrounding lands feeding the Yahara River system.
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E.
Rock River
Rock River is a tributary of the Big Sioux River flowing through parts of Iowa and South Dakota in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Rock River basin Description of subject: The Rock River basin is the watershed region in the Upper Midwest of the United States that collects and channels water flowing into the Rock River and its tributaries.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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