Yaquina River
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The Yaquina River is a coastal river in western Oregon that flows through forested valleys before emptying into the Pacific Ocean at Yaquina Bay near Newport.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yaquina River canonical | 6 |
| Alsea River | 1 |
| Yaquina | 1 |
| Yaquina River watershed | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T472187 — 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: Yaquina River Context triple: [Yaquina Bay, riverMouthOf, Yaquina River]
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A.
Multnomah River
The Multnomah River is a historic waterway in Oregon whose name, derived from the Indigenous Multnomah people, has been used for various geographic and political entities in the region.
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B.
Clackamas River
The Clackamas River is a tributary of the Willamette River in northwestern Oregon, known for its scenic forested watershed, hydroelectric dams, and popular recreational activities like fishing, rafting, and kayaking.
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C.
Deschutes River
The Deschutes River is a major river in central Oregon known for its scenic canyons, world-class fly fishing, and popular whitewater rafting and recreation opportunities.
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D.
Willamette River
The Willamette River is a major waterway in northwestern Oregon that flows north through the Willamette Valley and the city of Portland before joining the Columbia River.
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E.
Tualatin River
The Tualatin River is a tributary of the Willamette River in northwestern Oregon, known for flowing through agricultural lands and suburban communities and serving as a key source of irrigation, recreation, and wildlife habitat.
- 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: Yaquina River Target entity description: The Yaquina River is a coastal river in western Oregon that flows through forested valleys before emptying into the Pacific Ocean at Yaquina Bay near Newport.
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A.
Multnomah River
The Multnomah River is a historic waterway in Oregon whose name, derived from the Indigenous Multnomah people, has been used for various geographic and political entities in the region.
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B.
Clackamas River
The Clackamas River is a tributary of the Willamette River in northwestern Oregon, known for its scenic forested watershed, hydroelectric dams, and popular recreational activities like fishing, rafting, and kayaking.
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C.
Deschutes River
The Deschutes River is a major river in central Oregon known for its scenic canyons, world-class fly fishing, and popular whitewater rafting and recreation opportunities.
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D.
Willamette River
The Willamette River is a major waterway in northwestern Oregon that flows north through the Willamette Valley and the city of Portland before joining the Columbia River.
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E.
Tualatin River
The Tualatin River is a tributary of the Willamette River in northwestern Oregon, known for flowing through agricultural lands and suburban communities and serving as a key source of irrigation, recreation, and wildlife habitat.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
coastal river
ⓘ
river ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crossedBy |
Oregon Route 22
ⓘ
surface form:
Oregon Route 229
U.S. Route 20 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| emptiesAt | Yaquina Bay Bridge vicinity ⓘ |
| emptiesNear | Newport, Oregon ⓘ |
| flowsInto |
Pacific Ocean
ⓘ
Yaquina Bay ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
Newport, Oregon
ⓘ
forested valleys ⓘ |
| hasEstuary | Yaquina Bay ⓘ |
| hasTributary |
Big Elk Creek
ⓘ
Little Elk Creek ⓘ |
| hasWatershed | Yaquina River watershed ⓘ |
| length |
approximately 59 miles
ⓘ
approximately 95 kilometers ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Benton County, Oregon
ⓘ
Lincoln County, Oregon ⓘ Oregon ⓘ western Oregon ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | North America ⓘ |
| mouthElevation | 0 meters ⓘ |
| mouthLocation |
Pacific Ocean
ⓘ
Yaquina Bay ⓘ |
| nearbyCity | Newport, Oregon ⓘ |
| region | Oregon Coast ⓘ |
| riverSystem | Pacific Ocean drainage basin ⓘ |
| sourceLocation |
Central Oregon Coast Range
ⓘ
near Summit, Oregon ⓘ |
| usedFor |
boating
ⓘ
fishing ⓘ 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: Yaquina River Description of subject: The Yaquina River is a coastal river in western Oregon that flows through forested valleys before emptying into the Pacific Ocean at Yaquina Bay near Newport.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Alsea River
this entity surface form:
Yaquina
this entity surface form:
Yaquina River watershed