Mattole River
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The Mattole River is a remote, free-flowing river in Northern California’s Lost Coast region, known for its rugged watershed, salmon and steelhead habitat, and largely undeveloped surroundings.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mattole River canonical | 9 |
| Mattole–Bear River | 3 |
| Mattole River watershed | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6560471 — 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: Mattole River Context triple: [Petrolia, California, locatedOnRiver, Mattole River]
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Cle Elum River
The Cle Elum River is a tributary of the Yakima River in central Washington State, known for flowing through forested mountain terrain and supporting irrigation, recreation, and local ecosystems.
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Queets River
The Queets River is a remote, glacially fed river in Washington State that flows through old-growth rainforest in Olympic National Park before emptying into the Pacific Ocean.
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Mokelumne River
The Mokelumne River is a major river in the Sierra Nevada of California, known for its scenic canyons, hydroelectric projects, and role as a vital water source for agriculture and urban areas.
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D.
Quillayute River
The Quillayute River is a short river on Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula formed by the confluence of several tributaries and flowing into the Pacific Ocean near the town of La Push.
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Newaukum River
The Newaukum River is a tributary of the Chehalis River in southwestern Washington State, known for its salmon and steelhead runs and its role in the local watershed and floodplain of Lewis County.
- 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: Mattole River Target entity description: The Mattole River is a remote, free-flowing river in Northern California’s Lost Coast region, known for its rugged watershed, salmon and steelhead habitat, and largely undeveloped surroundings.
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A.
Cle Elum River
The Cle Elum River is a tributary of the Yakima River in central Washington State, known for flowing through forested mountain terrain and supporting irrigation, recreation, and local ecosystems.
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B.
Queets River
The Queets River is a remote, glacially fed river in Washington State that flows through old-growth rainforest in Olympic National Park before emptying into the Pacific Ocean.
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C.
Mokelumne River
The Mokelumne River is a major river in the Sierra Nevada of California, known for its scenic canyons, hydroelectric projects, and role as a vital water source for agriculture and urban areas.
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D.
Quillayute River
The Quillayute River is a short river on Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula formed by the confluence of several tributaries and flowing into the Pacific Ocean near the town of La Push.
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E.
Newaukum River
The Newaukum River is a tributary of the Chehalis River in southwestern Washington State, known for its salmon and steelhead runs and its role in the local watershed and floodplain of Lewis County.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Mattole River Description of subject: The Mattole River is a remote, free-flowing river in Northern California’s Lost Coast region, known for its rugged watershed, salmon and steelhead habitat, and largely undeveloped surroundings.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mattole River
linked to: Mattole River