Clinton River
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The Clinton River is a waterway in southeastern Michigan that flows through several communities before emptying into Lake St. Clair.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clinton River canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2673004 — 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: Clinton River Context triple: [Pontiac, Michigan, locatedOn, Clinton River]
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A.
Tüp River
The Tüp River is a mountain river in northeastern Kyrgyzstan that flows into Lake Issyk-Kul, contributing to the lake’s freshwater inflow.
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B.
Ten Mile River
Ten Mile River is a tributary in western Connecticut known for flowing through rural Litchfield County and contributing to the Housatonic River watershed.
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C.
Ken River
The Ken River is a significant river in central India that flows through the states of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh before joining the Yamuna.
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D.
Plenty River
The Plenty River is a waterway in Victoria, Australia, that flows through Melbourne’s northeastern suburbs before joining the Yarra River.
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E.
Clearwater River
The Clearwater River is a major tributary of the Snake River in north-central Idaho, known for its clear waters, salmon and steelhead runs, and scenic canyons.
- 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: Clinton River Target entity description: The Clinton River is a waterway in southeastern Michigan that flows through several communities before emptying into Lake St. Clair.
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A.
Tüp River
The Tüp River is a mountain river in northeastern Kyrgyzstan that flows into Lake Issyk-Kul, contributing to the lake’s freshwater inflow.
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B.
Ten Mile River
Ten Mile River is a tributary in western Connecticut known for flowing through rural Litchfield County and contributing to the Housatonic River watershed.
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C.
Ken River
The Ken River is a significant river in central India that flows through the states of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh before joining the Yamuna.
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D.
Plenty River
The Plenty River is a waterway in Victoria, Australia, that flows through Melbourne’s northeastern suburbs before joining the Yarra River.
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E.
Clearwater River
The Clearwater River is a major tributary of the Snake River in north-central Idaho, known for its clear waters, salmon and steelhead runs, and scenic canyons.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | river ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| drainageBasin | Lake St. Clair watershed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| emptiesInto | Lake St. Clair NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| environmentalIssue |
combined sewer overflows
ⓘ
industrial pollution ⓘ urban runoff pollution ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
Auburn Hills, Michigan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Clinton Township, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Harrison Township, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Macomb County, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Mount Clemens, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Oakland County, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Pontiac, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Rochester Hills, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Sterling Heights, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature | Clinton River Spillway Canal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasProtectedArea |
Clinton River Park
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Clinton River Spillway NERFINISHED ⓘ Holland Ponds Park NERFINISHED ⓘ River Bends Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTributary |
Clinton River Cutoff Canal
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Galloway Creek NERFINISHED ⓘ Paint Creek NERFINISHED ⓘ Plum Brook NERFINISHED ⓘ Red Run NERFINISHED ⓘ Stony Creek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWatershed | Clinton River watershed ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Michigan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
southeastern Michigan ⓘ |
| mouthLocation |
Lake St. Clair
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Macomb County, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | DeWitt Clinton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near | Detroit metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Detroit metropolitan area river network
ⓘ
St. Clair River–Lake St. Clair–Detroit River waterway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| riverSystem | Great Lakes Basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state |
Michigan (most of state)
ⓘ
surface form:
Michigan
|
| subjectOf | Clinton River Watershed Council activities ⓘ |
| usedFor |
boating
ⓘ
canoeing ⓘ fishing ⓘ kayaking ⓘ 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: Clinton River Description of subject: The Clinton River is a waterway in southeastern Michigan that flows through several communities before emptying into Lake St. Clair.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Rochester, Michigan
subject surface form:
Clinton Township, Michigan
subject surface form:
Mount Clemens, Michigan
subject surface form:
Mount Clemens, Michigan