Selway River
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The Selway River is a wild and scenic river in north-central Idaho renowned for its pristine wilderness, whitewater rafting, and protected salmon and steelhead habitat.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Selway River canonical | 7 |
| Selway River watershed | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9908164 — 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: Selway River Context triple: [Clearwater River, hasTributary, Selway River]
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A.
Jefferson River
The Jefferson River is a major tributary of the Missouri River in southwestern Montana, known for its scenic valleys, trout fishing, and role in the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
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B.
Lewis River
The Lewis River is a tributary of the Columbia River in southwestern Washington State, known for its hydroelectric dams, scenic gorges, and popular fishing and recreation areas.
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C.
Selway
Selway is an English surname most notably associated with Philip Selway, the drummer of the rock band Radiohead.
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D.
Necanicum River
The Necanicum River is a coastal river in northwestern Oregon that flows through Clatsop County to the Pacific Ocean near the city of Seaside.
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E.
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.
- 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: Selway River Target entity description: The Selway River is a wild and scenic river in north-central Idaho renowned for its pristine wilderness, whitewater rafting, and protected salmon and steelhead habitat.
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A.
Jefferson River
The Jefferson River is a major tributary of the Missouri River in southwestern Montana, known for its scenic valleys, trout fishing, and role in the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
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B.
Lewis River
The Lewis River is a tributary of the Columbia River in southwestern Washington State, known for its hydroelectric dams, scenic gorges, and popular fishing and recreation areas.
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C.
Selway
Selway is an English surname most notably associated with Philip Selway, the drummer of the rock band Radiohead.
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D.
Necanicum River
The Necanicum River is a coastal river in northwestern Oregon that flows through Clatsop County to the Pacific Ocean near the city of Seaside.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
river
ⓘ
wild and scenic river ⓘ |
| accessRestrictedBy | permit system for boating ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| designatedAsWildAndScenic | 1968 ⓘ |
| ecoregion |
Northern Rockies forests
ⓘ
linked to:
Rocky Mountain forests
|
| flowsThrough |
Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests
ⓘ
linked to:
Nez Perce National Forest
Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness ⓘ
linked to:
Selway–Bitterroot Wilderness
|
| habitatFor |
Chinook salmon
ⓘ
bull trout ⓘ steelhead trout ⓘ westslope cutthroat trout ⓘ
linked to:
westlope cutthroat trout
|
| hasDesignation | National Wild and Scenic River ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
deep forested canyons
ⓘ
granite gorges ⓘ largely undeveloped shoreline ⓘ limited road access ⓘ |
| hasWhitewaterClass |
Class IV
ⓘ
Class V ⓘ |
| knownFor |
kayaking
ⓘ
pristine wilderness ⓘ protected salmon habitat ⓘ protected steelhead habitat ⓘ remote backcountry setting ⓘ whitewater rafting ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Bitterroot Range
ⓘ
Idaho ⓘ Idaho County, Idaho ⓘ Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests ⓘ
linked to:
Nez Perce National Forest
Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness ⓘ
linked to:
Selway–Bitterroot Wilderness
north-central Idaho ⓘ |
| managedBy | U.S. Forest Service ⓘ |
| mouthLocation |
Confluence with Lochsa River
ⓘ
Lowell, Idaho vicinity ⓘ |
| nearbySettlement |
Kooskia, Idaho
ⓘ
Lowell, Idaho ⓘ |
| partOf |
Clearwater River system
ⓘ
linked to:
Clearwater River
Columbia River Basin ⓘ Selway River watershed ⓘ
linked to:
Selway River
|
| protectedBy |
U.S. Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
ⓘ
linked to:
Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
|
| recreationActivity |
backpacking
ⓘ
fishing ⓘ hunting ⓘ kayaking ⓘ whitewater rafting ⓘ |
| sourceLocation |
Bitterroot Mountains
ⓘ
linked to:
Bitterroot Range
|
| tributaryOf |
Clearwater River
ⓘ
Middle Fork Clearwater River ⓘ |
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: Selway River Description of subject: The Selway River is a wild and scenic river in north-central Idaho renowned for its pristine wilderness, whitewater rafting, and protected salmon and steelhead habitat.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Selway River