Kootenay River
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The Kootenay River is a major river in the Pacific Northwest that flows through British Columbia, Montana, and Idaho before joining the Columbia River.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kootenay River canonical | 27 |
| Kootenay River basin | 3 |
| Kootenay River system | 1 |
| Kootenay River valley | 1 |
| Kootenay River watershed | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T609977 — 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: Kootenay River Context triple: [Columbia River, majorTributary, Kootenay River]
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A.
Fraser River
The Fraser River is the longest river within British Columbia, Canada, flowing from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean and serving as a major waterway for ecology, fisheries, and regional commerce in the Pacific Northwest.
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B.
Assiniboine River
The Assiniboine River is a major prairie river in Western Canada that flows through Saskatchewan and Manitoba before joining the Red River at Winnipeg.
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C.
Mackenzie River
The Mackenzie River is the longest river system in Canada, flowing through the Northwest Territories to the Arctic Ocean and draining a vast portion of northwestern North America.
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D.
Columbia River
The Columbia River is a major river of the Pacific Northwest that forms much of the border between Oregon and Washington and is vital for hydroelectric power, transportation, and regional ecosystems.
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E.
Mississagi River
The Mississagi River is a major river in northern Ontario, Canada, that flows through rugged forested terrain before emptying into Lake Huron.
- 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: Kootenay River Target entity description: The Kootenay River is a major river in the Pacific Northwest that flows through British Columbia, Montana, and Idaho before joining the Columbia River.
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A.
Fraser River
The Fraser River is the longest river within British Columbia, Canada, flowing from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean and serving as a major waterway for ecology, fisheries, and regional commerce in the Pacific Northwest.
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B.
Assiniboine River
The Assiniboine River is a major prairie river in Western Canada that flows through Saskatchewan and Manitoba before joining the Red River at Winnipeg.
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C.
Mackenzie River
The Mackenzie River is the longest river system in Canada, flowing through the Northwest Territories to the Arctic Ocean and draining a vast portion of northwestern North America.
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D.
Columbia River
The Columbia River is a major river of the Pacific Northwest that forms much of the border between Oregon and Washington and is vital for hydroelectric power, transportation, and regional ecosystems.
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E.
Mississagi River
The Mississagi River is a major river in northern Ontario, Canada, that flows through rugged forested terrain before emptying into Lake Huron.
- 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: Kootenay River Description of subject: The Kootenay River is a major river in the Pacific Northwest that flows through British Columbia, Montana, and Idaho before joining the Columbia River.
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Kootenay River basin
this entity surface form:
Kootenay River valley
this entity surface form:
Kootenay River watershed
this entity surface form:
Kootenay River system
this entity surface form:
Kootenay River basin
subject surface form:
Elk River (British Columbia)
subject surface form:
Elk River (British Columbia)
this entity surface form:
Kootenay River basin