Little Falls of the Passaic River
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Little Falls of the Passaic River is a small but historically significant waterfall on New Jersey’s Passaic River that gave its name to the nearby township of Little Falls.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Little Falls of the Passaic River canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11363684 — 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: Little Falls of the Passaic River Context triple: [Little Falls, New Jersey, namedFor, Little Falls of the Passaic River]
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A.
Great Falls of the Passaic River
The Great Falls of the Passaic River is a dramatic 77-foot waterfall and one of the largest in the eastern United States, historically central to early American industrial development.
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B.
Hackensack River
The Hackensack River is a tidal river in northeastern New Jersey that flows through heavily urbanized areas before emptying into Newark Bay.
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C.
Rahway River
The Rahway River is a tributary of the Arthur Kill in northern New Jersey that flows through several communities before emptying into the tidal strait between New Jersey and Staten Island.
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D.
Rondout Creek
Rondout Creek is a significant stream in southeastern New York that flows through the Catskill region and the city of Kingston before joining the Hudson River.
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E.
Hudson River at Troy
The Hudson River at Troy is a section of New York’s Hudson River near the city of Troy, known as a key navigation point where the river meets the Erie Canal system and tidal influence ends.
- 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: Little Falls of the Passaic River Target entity description: Little Falls of the Passaic River is a small but historically significant waterfall on New Jersey’s Passaic River that gave its name to the nearby township of Little Falls.
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A.
Great Falls of the Passaic River
The Great Falls of the Passaic River is a dramatic 77-foot waterfall and one of the largest in the eastern United States, historically central to early American industrial development.
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B.
Hackensack River
The Hackensack River is a tidal river in northeastern New Jersey that flows through heavily urbanized areas before emptying into Newark Bay.
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C.
Rahway River
The Rahway River is a tributary of the Arthur Kill in northern New Jersey that flows through several communities before emptying into the tidal strait between New Jersey and Staten Island.
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D.
Rondout Creek
Rondout Creek is a significant stream in southeastern New York that flows through the Catskill region and the city of Kingston before joining the Hudson River.
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E.
Hudson River at Troy
The Hudson River at Troy is a section of New York’s Hudson River near the city of Troy, known as a key navigation point where the river meets the Erie Canal system and tidal influence ends.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
natural feature
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waterfall ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| county | Passaic County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featureType | river waterfall ⓘ |
| gaveNameTo | Little Falls, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
associated with early industrial development along the Passaic River
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gave its name to the township of Little Falls ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Passaic River watershed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfName | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Little Falls, New Jersey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New Jersey, United States ⓘ
surface form:
New Jersey
Passaic County, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| locatedOnRiver | Passaic River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Little Falls of the Passaic River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | small falls on the Passaic River ⓘ |
| near |
Great Falls of the Passaic River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Paterson, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Northern New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relativeSize | small waterfall ⓘ |
| state |
New Jersey, United States
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surface form:
New Jersey
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| townshipNamedAfter | Little Falls, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| watercourse | Passaic River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| waterSystem | Atlantic Ocean drainage basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Little Falls of the Passaic River Description of subject: Little Falls of the Passaic River is a small but historically significant waterfall on New Jersey’s Passaic River that gave its name to the nearby township of Little Falls.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.