La Crosse River
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The La Crosse River is a tributary of the Mississippi River in western Wisconsin, flowing through Fort McCoy and the city of La Crosse.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| La Crosse River canonical | 5 |
| La Crosse River valley | 2 |
| La Crosse riverfront | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3626135 — 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: La Crosse River Context triple: [La Crosse, locatedOnRiver, La Crosse River]
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A.
Eau Claire River
The Eau Claire River is a tributary in western Wisconsin that flows through the city of Eau Claire before joining the Chippewa River.
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B.
Menominee River
The Menominee River is a major river forming part of the border between Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, known for its forests, hydroelectric dams, and role as a key tributary in the Great Lakes watershed.
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C.
Cedar River
Cedar River is a major river in Iowa and Minnesota known for flowing through cities like Cedar Rapids and contributing significantly to the region’s ecology and economy.
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D.
Cedar River
Cedar River is a tributary waterway in Michigan that feeds into the Muskegon River within the Great Lakes watershed.
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E.
Cedar River
The Cedar River is a river in Washington State that flows from the Cascade Range through rural and suburban areas before ultimately feeding into Lake Washington near Seattle.
- 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: La Crosse River Target entity description: The La Crosse River is a tributary of the Mississippi River in western Wisconsin, flowing through Fort McCoy and the city of La Crosse.
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A.
Eau Claire River
The Eau Claire River is a tributary in western Wisconsin that flows through the city of Eau Claire before joining the Chippewa River.
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B.
Menominee River
The Menominee River is a major river forming part of the border between Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, known for its forests, hydroelectric dams, and role as a key tributary in the Great Lakes watershed.
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C.
Cedar River
Cedar River is a major river in Iowa and Minnesota known for flowing through cities like Cedar Rapids and contributing significantly to the region’s ecology and economy.
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D.
Cedar River
The Cedar River is a river in Washington State that flows from the Cascade Range through rural and suburban areas before ultimately feeding into Lake Washington near Seattle.
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E.
Cedar River
Cedar River is a tributary waterway in Michigan that feeds into the Muskegon River within the Great Lakes watershed.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
river
ⓘ
tributary ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
La Crosse
ⓘ
surface form:
City of La Crosse
|
| basinCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crosses | Interstate 90 near La Crosse ⓘ |
| drainageBasin | western Wisconsin ⓘ |
| flowsGenerally | westward ⓘ |
| flowsInto | Mississippi River ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
Camp McCoy, Wisconsin
ⓘ
surface form:
Fort McCoy, Wisconsin
La Crosse, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLength | approximately 61 miles ⓘ |
| hasMouthElevation | approximately 633 feet ⓘ |
| hasName | La Crosse River self-link ⓘ |
| hasNearbyCity |
Onalaska, Wisconsin
ⓘ
Sparta, Wisconsin, United States ⓘ
surface form:
Sparta, Wisconsin
|
| hasNearbyProtectedArea |
Fort McCoy military installation
ⓘ
surface form:
Fort McCoy training area
|
| hasRecreation |
canoeing
ⓘ
fishing ⓘ kayaking ⓘ |
| hasTributary | Little La Crosse River ⓘ |
| hasValley |
La Crosse River
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
La Crosse River valley
|
| locatedIn |
Jackson County, Wisconsin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
La Crosse County, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Monroe County, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ western Wisconsin ⓘ |
| mouth | Mississippi River ⓘ |
| mouthLocation | La Crosse, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near | Fort McCoy military installation ⓘ |
| partOf |
Mississippi River basin
ⓘ
surface form:
Mississippi River watershed
|
| region | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| riverSystem | Mississippi River basin ⓘ |
| sourceLocation | near Sparta, Wisconsin ⓘ |
| state | Wisconsin ⓘ |
| tributaryOf | Mississippi 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: La Crosse River Description of subject: The La Crosse River is a tributary of the Mississippi River in western Wisconsin, flowing through Fort McCoy and the city of La Crosse.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
La Crosse River valley
this entity surface form:
La Crosse riverfront
this entity surface form:
La Crosse River valley