Alamosa River
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The Alamosa River is a waterway in southern Colorado that flows through the San Luis Valley, supporting local agriculture and wildlife habitats.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alamosa River canonical | 2 |
| Alamosa River (portions) | 1 |
| Great Sand Dunes watershed | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4789811 — 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: Alamosa River Context triple: [San Luis Valley, hasRiver, Alamosa River]
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A.
Animas River
The Animas River is a major river in the southwestern United States that flows through Colorado and New Mexico, known for its scenic mountain landscapes, recreational rafting and fishing, and historical ties to mining.
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B.
Jemez River
The Jemez River is a tributary of the Rio Grande in north-central New Mexico that flows through the Jemez Mountains and nearby pueblos, supporting local ecosystems and communities.
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C.
Zuni River
The Zuni River is a tributary of the Little Colorado River in the American Southwest, flowing through western New Mexico and eastern Arizona and serving as an important water source for the Zuni people.
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D.
Huerfano River
The Huerfano River is a tributary of the Arkansas River in southern Colorado, known for flowing through Huerfano County and lending its name to the region.
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E.
Gunnison River
The Gunnison River is a major tributary of the Colorado River in western Colorado, known for carving the dramatic Black Canyon and supporting recreation, irrigation, and hydropower in the region.
- 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: Alamosa River Target entity description: The Alamosa River is a waterway in southern Colorado that flows through the San Luis Valley, supporting local agriculture and wildlife habitats.
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A.
Animas River
The Animas River is a major river in the southwestern United States that flows through Colorado and New Mexico, known for its scenic mountain landscapes, recreational rafting and fishing, and historical ties to mining.
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B.
Jemez River
The Jemez River is a tributary of the Rio Grande in north-central New Mexico that flows through the Jemez Mountains and nearby pueblos, supporting local ecosystems and communities.
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C.
Zuni River
The Zuni River is a tributary of the Little Colorado River in the American Southwest, flowing through western New Mexico and eastern Arizona and serving as an important water source for the Zuni people.
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D.
Huerfano River
The Huerfano River is a tributary of the Arkansas River in southern Colorado, known for flowing through Huerfano County and lending its name to the region.
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E.
Gunnison River
The Gunnison River is a major tributary of the Colorado River in western Colorado, known for carving the dramatic Black Canyon and supporting recreation, irrigation, and hydropower in the region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | river ⓘ |
| basinCountry | United States of America ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| drainageBasin | Rio Grande basin ⓘ |
| economicSignificance | supports agricultural economy in San Luis Valley ⓘ |
| environmentalSignificance | supports biodiversity in San Luis Valley ⓘ |
| flowsInDirection | generally eastward ⓘ |
| flowsThrough | San Luis Valley ⓘ |
| hasEcosystemType |
riparian habitat
ⓘ
wetland habitat ⓘ |
| hasHydrologicalType | perennial stream ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Alamosa County, Colorado
ⓘ
Conejos County, Colorado ⓘ San Luis Valley ⓘ southern Colorado ⓘ
linked to:
Southern Colorado
|
| partOf |
Rio Grande watershed
ⓘ
linked to:
Rio Grande basin
|
| state | Colorado ⓘ |
| supports |
local agriculture
ⓘ
wildlife habitats ⓘ |
| supportsSpecies |
aquatic invertebrates
ⓘ
fish ⓘ waterfowl ⓘ |
| tributaryOf | Rio Grande ⓘ |
| usedFor |
irrigation
ⓘ
recreation ⓘ |
| waterResourceFor |
farms in San Luis Valley
ⓘ
ranching in San Luis Valley ⓘ |
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: Alamosa River Description of subject: The Alamosa River is a waterway in southern Colorado that flows through the San Luis Valley, supporting local agriculture and wildlife habitats.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Alamosa River
linked to: Alamosa River