New River
E171027
The New River is a highly polluted waterway flowing from Mexico into Southern California, ultimately draining into the Salton Sea.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| New River canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T628157 — 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: New River Context triple: [Salton Sea, inflow, New River]
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A.
New River
The New River is one of North America’s oldest rivers, renowned for its deep gorge, whitewater rapids, and scenic landscapes as it flows through the Appalachian region.
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B.
Nolin River
Nolin River is a tributary of the Green River in central Kentucky known for its scenic waterways, recreational opportunities, and the Nolin River Lake formed by its dam.
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C.
Yadkin River
The Yadkin River is a major river in North Carolina that flows through the state's Piedmont region and serves as an important source of water, recreation, and hydroelectric power.
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D.
Shenandoah River
The Shenandoah River is a scenic waterway flowing through Virginia and West Virginia, famed for its pastoral valleys, Blue Ridge Mountain backdrop, and prominence in American folk music and Civil War history.
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E.
Roanoke River
The Roanoke River is a major waterway in the southeastern United States that flows from the Appalachian region of Virginia into North Carolina, supporting diverse ecosystems and historically significant communities along its course.
- 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: New River Target entity description: The New River is a highly polluted waterway flowing from Mexico into Southern California, ultimately draining into the Salton Sea.
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A.
New River
The New River is one of North America’s oldest rivers, renowned for its deep gorge, whitewater rapids, and scenic landscapes as it flows through the Appalachian region.
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B.
Nolin River
Nolin River is a tributary of the Green River in central Kentucky known for its scenic waterways, recreational opportunities, and the Nolin River Lake formed by its dam.
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C.
Yadkin River
The Yadkin River is a major river in North Carolina that flows through the state's Piedmont region and serves as an important source of water, recreation, and hydroelectric power.
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D.
Shenandoah River
The Shenandoah River is a scenic waterway flowing through Virginia and West Virginia, famed for its pastoral valleys, Blue Ridge Mountain backdrop, and prominence in American folk music and Civil War history.
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E.
Roanoke River
The Roanoke River is a major waterway in the southeastern United States that flows from the Appalachian region of Virginia into North Carolina, supporting diverse ecosystems and historically significant communities along its course.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
river
ⓘ
waterway ⓘ |
| affects |
Imperial Valley air quality through exposed sediments
ⓘ
Salton Sea water quality ⓘ |
| borderCrossing |
Mexicali border crossing
ⓘ
surface form:
Calexico–Mexicali border
|
| connectedTo | Alamo River via Salton Sea ⓘ |
| country |
Mexico
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crossesBorderBetween |
United States and Mexico
ⓘ
surface form:
Mexico and the United States
|
| drainageBasin | Imperial Valley agricultural lands ⓘ |
| environmentalIssue |
ecosystem degradation
ⓘ
public health risk ⓘ water pollution ⓘ |
| flowsDirection | northward ⓘ |
| flowsInto | Salton Sea ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
Baja California
ⓘ
Calexico, California ⓘ California, United States ⓘ
surface form:
California
Imperial County ⓘ
surface form:
Imperial County, California
Mexicali ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
highly polluted
ⓘ
transboundary river ⓘ urban river ⓘ |
| hasIssue |
chemical contaminants
ⓘ
high nutrient loads ⓘ pathogen contamination ⓘ |
| hasLegalStatus | impaired water body under the U.S. Clean Water Act ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Colorado Desert
ⓘ
Imperial Valley ⓘ |
| mouthLocation | Salton Sea ⓘ |
| near |
Brawley
ⓘ
surface form:
Brawley, California
Imperial, California ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the most polluted rivers in the United States ⓘ |
| partOf | Salton Sea watershed ⓘ |
| pollutionSource |
agricultural runoff
ⓘ
industrial discharges ⓘ municipal wastewater ⓘ untreated sewage ⓘ |
| region |
Southern California
ⓘ
northwestern Mexico ⓘ |
| regulatesBy |
California Regional Water Quality Control Board
ⓘ
United States Environmental Protection Agency ⓘ |
| sourceLocation | Mexicali Valley ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
U.S.–Mexico environmental agreements
ⓘ
binational water quality monitoring ⓘ remediation projects ⓘ |
| tributaryOf | Salton Sea ⓘ |
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: New River Description of subject: The New River is a highly polluted waterway flowing from Mexico into Southern California, ultimately draining into the Salton Sea.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.