Kootenai River
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The Kootenai River is a major river in the Pacific Northwest of North America that flows through British Columbia, Montana, and Idaho before joining the Columbia River.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kootenai River canonical | 19 |
| Kootenai River Subdivision | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3841865 — 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: Kootenai River Context triple: [Kootenay River, alsoKnownAs, Kootenai River]
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A.
Skookumchuck River
Skookumchuck River is a river in western Washington State that flows through Thurston County and is known for its salmon habitat and recreational opportunities.
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B.
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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C.
Liard River
The Liard River is a major river in northwestern Canada that flows through Yukon, British Columbia, and the Northwest Territories, known for its rugged wilderness and role in draining into the Mackenzie River system.
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D.
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.
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E.
Lewis and Clark River
The Lewis and Clark River is a small coastal river in northwestern Oregon that flows through forested terrain into the Youngs River near Astoria, historically associated with the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
- 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: Kootenai River Target entity description: The Kootenai River is a major river in the Pacific Northwest of North America that flows through British Columbia, Montana, and Idaho before joining the Columbia River.
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A.
Skookumchuck River
Skookumchuck River is a river in western Washington State that flows through Thurston County and is known for its salmon habitat and recreational opportunities.
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B.
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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C.
Liard River
The Liard River is a major river in northwestern Canada that flows through Yukon, British Columbia, and the Northwest Territories, known for its rugged wilderness and role in draining into the Mackenzie River system.
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D.
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.
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E.
Lewis and Clark River
The Lewis and Clark River is a small coastal river in northwestern Oregon that flows through forested terrain into the Youngs River near Astoria, historically associated with the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Kootenai River Description of subject: The Kootenai River is a major river in the Pacific Northwest of North America that flows through British Columbia, Montana, and Idaho before joining the Columbia River.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
western Montana
subject linked to:
Libby
subject linked to:
Lincoln County
linked to: Kootenai River