Cornwallis River
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The Cornwallis River is a river in Nova Scotia, Canada, that flows through the fertile agricultural region of the Annapolis Valley before emptying into the Minas Basin.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cornwallis River canonical | 5 |
| Cornwallis River valley | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6219954 — 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: Cornwallis River Context triple: [Annapolis Valley, hasWaterBody, Cornwallis River]
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A.
Marys River
Marys River is a tributary of the Willamette River in western Oregon that flows through Benton County and the city of Corvallis.
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B.
Marys River
Marys River is a tributary stream in northeastern Nevada that feeds into the Humboldt River within the Great Basin watershed.
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C.
Bell River
Bell River is a river in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia, that flows through the town of Wellington before joining the Macquarie River.
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D.
Childs River
Childs River is a small coastal river in Falmouth, Massachusetts, that flows into Waquoit Bay on Cape Cod.
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E.
Rib River
Rib River is a river in northern Ethiopia that serves as one of the main tributaries feeding Lake Tana, the source of the Blue Nile.
- 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: Cornwallis River Target entity description: The Cornwallis River is a river in Nova Scotia, Canada, that flows through the fertile agricultural region of the Annapolis Valley before emptying into the Minas Basin.
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A.
Marys River
Marys River is a tributary of the Willamette River in western Oregon that flows through Benton County and the city of Corvallis.
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B.
Marys River
Marys River is a tributary stream in northeastern Nevada that feeds into the Humboldt River within the Great Basin watershed.
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C.
Bell River
Bell River is a river in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia, that flows through the town of Wellington before joining the Macquarie River.
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D.
Childs River
Childs River is a small coastal river in Falmouth, Massachusetts, that flows into Waquoit Bay on Cape Cod.
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E.
Rib River
Rib River is a river in northern Ethiopia that serves as one of the main tributaries feeding Lake Tana, the source of the Blue Nile.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | river ⓘ |
| basinCountry | Canada ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| drainageBasin | Minas Basin ⓘ |
| emptiesInto | Minas Basin ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
Annapolis Valley
ⓘ
Kings County, Nova Scotia ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
fertile floodplain
ⓘ
subject to tidal influence ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
farming
ⓘ
horticulture ⓘ |
| hasEcosystemType | tidal river ⓘ |
| hasLandUse |
crop farming
ⓘ
orchards ⓘ |
| hasNearbySettlement |
Kentville, Nova Scotia
ⓘ
Port Williams, Nova Scotia ⓘ Wolfville, Nova Scotia ⓘ |
| hasUse | agriculture ⓘ |
| hasWaterBodyType |
freshwater river
ⓘ
tidal estuary ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Annapolis Valley
ⓘ
Nova Scotia ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | North America ⓘ |
| mouthLocation | Minas Basin ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Edward Cornwallis ⓘ |
| partOf |
Bay of Fundy watershed
ⓘ
linked to:
Bay of Fundy
|
| province | Nova Scotia ⓘ |
| region | Annapolis Valley ⓘ |
| tributaryOf | Minas Basin ⓘ |
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: Cornwallis River Description of subject: The Cornwallis River is a river in Nova Scotia, Canada, that flows through the fertile agricultural region of the Annapolis Valley before emptying into the Minas Basin.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.