La Plata River
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The La Plata River is a tributary of the San Juan River that flows through parts of Colorado and New Mexico in the southwestern United States.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| La Plata River canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8025780 — 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: La Plata River Context triple: [Farmington, New Mexico, hasNearbyRiver, La Plata River]
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A.
La Plata River
La Plata River is a watercourse known for flowing through regions inhabited by the prized game fish dorado in South America.
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B.
La Plata River
La Plata River is a major river in Puerto Rico that flows through several municipalities, including Bayamón, before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean.
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C.
San Lorenzo River
The San Lorenzo River is a coastal river in central California that flows through the city of Santa Cruz into the Monterey Bay.
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D.
Río San Lorenzo
Río San Lorenzo is a river in northwestern Mexico that flows through arid landscapes before emptying into the Gulf of California.
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E.
Marta River
The Marta River is a watercourse in central Italy that drains Lake Bolsena and flows southwest toward the Tyrrhenian Sea.
- 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: La Plata River Target entity description: The La Plata River is a tributary of the San Juan River that flows through parts of Colorado and New Mexico in the southwestern United States.
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A.
La Plata River
La Plata River is a watercourse known for flowing through regions inhabited by the prized game fish dorado in South America.
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B.
La Plata River
La Plata River is a major river in Puerto Rico that flows through several municipalities, including Bayamón, before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean.
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C.
San Lorenzo River
The San Lorenzo River is a coastal river in central California that flows through the city of Santa Cruz into the Monterey Bay.
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D.
Río San Lorenzo
Río San Lorenzo is a river in northwestern Mexico that flows through arid landscapes before emptying into the Gulf of California.
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E.
Marta River
The Marta River is a watercourse in central Italy that drains Lake Bolsena and flows southwest toward the Tyrrhenian Sea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | river ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| flowsNear |
Farmington, New Mexico
ⓘ
La Plata County, Colorado ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
Colorado
ⓘ
New Mexico ⓘ |
| hasNameOrigin |
Spanish language
ⓘ
linked to:
Spanish
|
| hasTributaryType | right tributary of the San Juan River ⓘ |
| hasWatershed | La Plata River watershed ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Colorado
ⓘ
La Plata County, Colorado ⓘ New Mexico ⓘ Southwestern United States ⓘ
linked to:
southwestern United States
|
| mouthLocatedIn |
New Mexico
ⓘ
San Juan River ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| nameMeaning | silver ⓘ |
| partOf | Colorado River Basin ⓘ |
| region | Four Corners region ⓘ |
| tributaryOf | San Juan River ⓘ |
| usedFor |
irrigation
ⓘ
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: La Plata River Description of subject: The La Plata River is a tributary of the San Juan River that flows through parts of Colorado and New Mexico in the southwestern United States.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.