South Thompson River
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The South Thompson River is a major river in south-central British Columbia, Canada, that flows westward from Shuswap Lake and joins the North Thompson River at Kamloops to form the Thompson River.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| South Thompson River canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3649749 — 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: South Thompson River Context triple: [Kamloops, locatedAtConfluenceOf, South Thompson River]
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A.
North Thompson River
The North Thompson River is a major river in British Columbia, Canada, that flows south through the interior and joins the South Thompson River at Kamloops to form the Thompson River.
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B.
Mississagi River
The Mississagi River is a major river in northern Ontario, Canada, that flows through rugged forested terrain before emptying into Lake Huron.
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C.
Peel River
The Peel River is a major river in northern Canada that flows through the Yukon and Northwest Territories, contributing significantly to the Arctic watershed.
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D.
Peel River
The Peel River is a major inland river in New South Wales, Australia, that flows through the New England and North West regions before joining the Namoi River within the Murray–Darling Basin.
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E.
Eramosa River
The Eramosa River is a tributary of the Grand River in southern Ontario, Canada, known for flowing through the city of Guelph and its surrounding natural and recreational areas.
- 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: South Thompson River Target entity description: The South Thompson River is a major river in south-central British Columbia, Canada, that flows westward from Shuswap Lake and joins the North Thompson River at Kamloops to form the Thompson River.
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A.
North Thompson River
The North Thompson River is a major river in British Columbia, Canada, that flows south through the interior and joins the South Thompson River at Kamloops to form the Thompson River.
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B.
Mississagi River
The Mississagi River is a major river in northern Ontario, Canada, that flows through rugged forested terrain before emptying into Lake Huron.
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C.
Peel River
The Peel River is a major river in northern Canada that flows through the Yukon and Northwest Territories, contributing significantly to the Arctic watershed.
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D.
Peel River
The Peel River is a major inland river in New South Wales, Australia, that flows through the New England and North West regions before joining the Namoi River within the Murray–Darling Basin.
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E.
Eramosa River
The Eramosa River is a tributary of the Grand River in southern Ontario, Canada, known for flowing through the city of Guelph and its surrounding natural and recreational areas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
river
ⓘ
watercourse ⓘ |
| basinCountry | Canada ⓘ |
| confluenceLocation | Kamloops ⓘ |
| confluenceWith | North Thompson River ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| drainageBasin | Fraser River drainage basin ⓘ |
| flowDirection | westward ⓘ |
| flowsFrom | Shuswap Lake ⓘ |
| flowsInto | Thompson River ⓘ |
| forms | Thompson River ⓘ |
| formsAtConfluenceWith | North Thompson River ⓘ |
| hasMouthRiver | Thompson River ⓘ |
| hasProvince | British Columbia ⓘ |
| hasSourceLake | Shuswap Lake ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
British Columbia
ⓘ
south-central British Columbia ⓘ |
| locatedInWatershed | Fraser River basin ⓘ |
| mouthLocation | Kamloops ⓘ |
| namedFor | Thompson River ⓘ |
| partOf |
Thompson River system
ⓘ
linked to:
Thompson River
|
| partOfHydrologicalSystem |
Fraser River system
ⓘ
linked to:
Fraser River basin
|
| passesNear | Kamloops ⓘ |
| region | Interior of British Columbia ⓘ |
| tributaryOf | Thompson River ⓘ |
| usedFor |
fishing
ⓘ
irrigation ⓘ recreation ⓘ |
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: South Thompson River Description of subject: The South Thompson River is a major river in south-central British Columbia, Canada, that flows westward from Shuswap Lake and joins the North Thompson River at Kamloops to form the Thompson River.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Kamloops (on its southeastern margin)
subject linked to:
Kamloops (on its southeastern margin)