Cedar River (Michigan)
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Cedar River (Michigan) is a river in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that flows into Green Bay, an arm of Lake Michigan, and drains a largely forested and rural watershed.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cedar River (Michigan) canonical | 2 |
| Cedar River, Michigan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3662643 — 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: Cedar River (Michigan) Context triple: [Green Bay (arm of Lake Michigan), inflow, Cedar River (Michigan)]
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A.
Red Cedar River (Michigan)
The Red Cedar River in Michigan is a notable waterway flowing through the campus of Michigan State University and the city of East Lansing before joining the Grand River.
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B.
Maple River (Michigan)
Maple River (Michigan) is a tributary waterway in the Lower Peninsula that contributes to the Grand River watershed.
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C.
Thornapple River (Michigan)
The Thornapple River is a major mid-Michigan waterway known for its scenic, winding course through rural and suburban landscapes and its popularity for fishing, paddling, and recreation.
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D.
Chippewa River (Michigan)
The Chippewa River in Michigan is a central waterway in the state's Lower Peninsula, known for flowing through Mount Pleasant and providing recreational opportunities such as canoeing, fishing, and riverside parks.
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E.
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.
- 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: Cedar River (Michigan) Target entity description: Cedar River (Michigan) is a river in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that flows into Green Bay, an arm of Lake Michigan, and drains a largely forested and rural watershed.
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A.
Red Cedar River (Michigan)
The Red Cedar River in Michigan is a notable waterway flowing through the campus of Michigan State University and the city of East Lansing before joining the Grand River.
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B.
Maple River (Michigan)
Maple River (Michigan) is a tributary waterway in the Lower Peninsula that contributes to the Grand River watershed.
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C.
Thornapple River (Michigan)
The Thornapple River is a major mid-Michigan waterway known for its scenic, winding course through rural and suburban landscapes and its popularity for fishing, paddling, and recreation.
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D.
Chippewa River (Michigan)
The Chippewa River in Michigan is a central waterway in the state's Lower Peninsula, known for flowing through Mount Pleasant and providing recreational opportunities such as canoeing, fishing, and riverside parks.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | river ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| drainageBasinLandCover |
forested
ⓘ
rural ⓘ |
| drains |
Cedar River
ⓘ
surface form:
Cedar River watershed
|
| flowsInto |
Green Bay
ⓘ
Lake Michigan ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
Delta County, Michigan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Menominee County, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMouthElevation | approximately 581 feet ⓘ |
| hasNearbyProtectedArea | Cedar River State Harbor ⓘ |
| hasRecreation |
canoeing
ⓘ
fishing ⓘ kayaking ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Michigan
ⓘ
Upper Peninsula of Michigan ⓘ |
| mouthLocatedIn |
Green Bay
ⓘ
Lake Michigan ⓘ |
| mouthNear |
Cedar River (Michigan)
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Cedar River, Michigan
|
| partOf | Great Lakes Basin ⓘ |
| region | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| tributaryOf | Lake Michigan via Green Bay ⓘ |
| waterbodyType | freshwater 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: Cedar River (Michigan) Description of subject: Cedar River (Michigan) is a river in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that flows into Green Bay, an arm of Lake Michigan, and drains a largely forested and rural watershed.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Green Bay (arm of Lake Michigan)
this entity surface form:
Cedar River, Michigan