Chaco River
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The Chaco River is an intermittent watercourse in northwestern New Mexico that drains the Chaco Canyon region and ultimately feeds into the San Juan River.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Chaco River canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7655727 — 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: Chaco River Context triple: [San Juan River, hasTributary, Chaco River]
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A.
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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B.
San Miguel River
The San Miguel River is a scenic tributary of the Dolores River in southwestern Colorado, known for flowing through rugged canyons and past the mountain town of Telluride.
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C.
Chepo River
The Chepo River is a significant river in central Panama that flows through the Chepo District before emptying into the Pacific Ocean.
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D.
San Cristobal River
The San Cristobal River is a waterway in the Philippines that serves as one of the tributary rivers feeding into Laguna de Bay, the country’s largest lake.
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E.
Desaguadero River
The Desaguadero River is a major river of the Altiplano in South America that drains Lake Titicaca and flows southward through Bolivia toward Lake Poopó.
- 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: Chaco River Target entity description: The Chaco River is an intermittent watercourse in northwestern New Mexico that drains the Chaco Canyon region and ultimately feeds into the San Juan River.
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A.
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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B.
San Miguel River
The San Miguel River is a scenic tributary of the Dolores River in southwestern Colorado, known for flowing through rugged canyons and past the mountain town of Telluride.
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C.
Chepo River
The Chepo River is a significant river in central Panama that flows through the Chepo District before emptying into the Pacific Ocean.
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D.
San Cristobal River
The San Cristobal River is a waterway in the Philippines that serves as one of the tributary rivers feeding into Laguna de Bay, the country’s largest lake.
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E.
Desaguadero River
The Desaguadero River is a major river of the Altiplano in South America that drains Lake Titicaca and flows southward through Bolivia toward Lake Poopó.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | intermittent river ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Ancestral Puebloan sites
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chacoan great houses NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countrySubdivision | San Juan County, New Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| drainageArea | Chaco Canyon drainage basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| drains | Chaco Canyon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| environment | semi-arid ⓘ |
| flowsThrough | Chaco Culture National Historical Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHydrologicalCharacteristic |
ephemeral flow
ⓘ
seasonal flow ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Chaco Canyon region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New Mexico ⓘ northwestern New Mexico ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | North America ⓘ |
| mouthOf | San Juan River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near | Chaco Wash NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Colorado River Basin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
San Juan River watershed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryLanguageRegion | English ⓘ |
| region |
southwestern United States
ⓘ
surface form:
American Southwest
|
| state | New Mexico ⓘ |
| tributaryOf | San Juan River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| watercourseType | intermittent stream ⓘ |
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: Chaco River Description of subject: The Chaco River is an intermittent watercourse in northwestern New Mexico that drains the Chaco Canyon region and ultimately feeds into the San Juan River.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.