Cooper River
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The Cooper River is a tidal river in South Carolina that flows through the Charleston area and is a key waterway in the Charleston Harbor estuarine system.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cooper River canonical | 30 |
| Ashley River and Cooper River | 1 |
| Cooper River system | 1 |
| Cooper River waterfront | 1 |
| Cooper River watershed | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T559746 — 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: Cooper River Context triple: [Charleston, locatedAtMouthOf, Cooper River]
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A.
Savannah River
The Savannah River is a major waterway in the southeastern United States that forms much of the border between Georgia and South Carolina and flows into the Atlantic Ocean.
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B.
Charleston Harbor
Charleston Harbor is a historic natural harbor in South Carolina, best known as the site where the American Civil War began with the bombardment of Fort Sumter.
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C.
Cape Fear River
The Cape Fear River is a major waterway in eastern North Carolina that flows from the Piedmont to the Atlantic Ocean, historically important for transportation, trade, and regional development.
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D.
Hillsborough River
The Hillsborough River is a central waterway in west-central Florida that flows through Tampa, providing drinking water, recreation, and scenic natural habitats before emptying into Tampa Bay.
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E.
Miami River
The Miami River is a short river in Florida that flows from the Everglades through the city of Miami into Biscayne Bay, historically serving as an important waterway for the region.
- 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: Cooper River Target entity description: The Cooper River is a tidal river in South Carolina that flows through the Charleston area and is a key waterway in the Charleston Harbor estuarine system.
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A.
Savannah River
The Savannah River is a major waterway in the southeastern United States that forms much of the border between Georgia and South Carolina and flows into the Atlantic Ocean.
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B.
Charleston Harbor
Charleston Harbor is a historic natural harbor in South Carolina, best known as the site where the American Civil War began with the bombardment of Fort Sumter.
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C.
Cape Fear River
The Cape Fear River is a major waterway in eastern North Carolina that flows from the Piedmont to the Atlantic Ocean, historically important for transportation, trade, and regional development.
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D.
Hillsborough River
The Hillsborough River is a central waterway in west-central Florida that flows through Tampa, providing drinking water, recreation, and scenic natural habitats before emptying into Tampa Bay.
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E.
Miami River
The Miami River is a short river in Florida that flows from the Everglades through the city of Miami into Biscayne Bay, historically serving as an important waterway for the region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Cooper River Description of subject: The Cooper River is a tidal river in South Carolina that flows through the Charleston area and is a key waterway in the Charleston Harbor estuarine system.
Referenced by (34)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
North Charleston, South Carolina
subject surface form:
North Charleston, South Carolina
this entity surface form:
Cooper River waterfront
subject surface form:
The Battery (Charleston)
this entity surface form:
Cooper River system
subject surface form:
Charleston, South Carolina
subject surface form:
Charleston, South Carolina
this entity surface form:
Ashley River and Cooper River
this entity surface form:
Cooper River watershed
subject surface form:
Back River (South Carolina)