Mobile River
E174358
The Mobile River is a major waterway in southwestern Alabama that flows into Mobile Bay and serves as an important channel for commerce and transportation.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mobile River canonical | 21 |
| Mobile River system | 3 |
| Mobile River Basin | 1 |
| Mobile River basin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1526578 — 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: Mobile River Context triple: [Mobile, locatedOnRiver, Mobile River]
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A.
Pages River
Pages River is a minor river in New South Wales, Australia, that forms part of the Hunter River catchment.
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B.
Ourthe River
The Ourthe River is a major watercourse in southeastern Belgium that flows through the Ardennes region before joining the Meuse River.
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C.
Tech River
Tech River is a river in southern France that flows through the Pyrénées-Orientales department before emptying into the Mediterranean Sea.
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D.
River Suck
River Suck is a major river in western Ireland that flows through counties such as Roscommon and Galway before joining the River Shannon.
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E.
Bayou Bucket
The Bayou Bucket is the trophy awarded to the winner of the annual college football rivalry game between the University of Houston and Rice University.
- 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: Mobile River Target entity description: The Mobile River is a major waterway in southwestern Alabama that flows into Mobile Bay and serves as an important channel for commerce and transportation.
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A.
Pages River
Pages River is a minor river in New South Wales, Australia, that forms part of the Hunter River catchment.
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B.
Ourthe River
The Ourthe River is a major watercourse in southeastern Belgium that flows through the Ardennes region before joining the Meuse River.
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C.
Tech River
Tech River is a river in southern France that flows through the Pyrénées-Orientales department before emptying into the Mediterranean Sea.
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D.
River Suck
River Suck is a major river in western Ireland that flows through counties such as Roscommon and Galway before joining the River Shannon.
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E.
Bayou Bucket
The Bayou Bucket is the trophy awarded to the winner of the annual college football rivalry game between the University of Houston and Rice University.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | river ⓘ |
| associatedWith | City of Mobile ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| confluenceLocation | north of Mobile, Alabama ⓘ |
| connectedTo |
Alabama River
ⓘ
Mobile Bay ⓘ Tombigbee River ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crossedBy |
Interstate 165
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U.S. Route 90 ⓘ U.S. Route 98 ⓘ |
| drainageArea |
over 110000 square kilometers
ⓘ
over 44000 square miles ⓘ |
| drainageBasin |
Mobile River drainage basin
ⓘ
surface form:
Mobile River Basin
|
| economicImportance | major shipping route for inland waterways of the southeastern United States ⓘ |
| ecoregion | Coastal Plain ⓘ |
| environmentalConcern |
industrial pollution
ⓘ
wetland loss ⓘ |
| flowsDirection | generally southward ⓘ |
| flowsInto | Mobile Bay ⓘ |
| formedByConfluenceOf |
Alabama River
ⓘ
Tombigbee River ⓘ |
| hasBridge | Cochrane–Africatown USA Bridge ⓘ |
| hasEstuary | Mobile Bay estuary ⓘ |
| hasTributary |
Chickasaw Creek
ⓘ
Three Mile Creek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalUse |
trade route during colonial period
ⓘ
transportation corridor for Native American peoples ⓘ |
| length |
approximately 45 miles
ⓘ
approximately 72 kilometers ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Baldwin County, Alabama
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mobile County, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ southwestern Alabama ⓘ |
| majorCityOnRiver | Mobile, Alabama ⓘ |
| mouth | Mobile Bay ⓘ |
| navigable | yes ⓘ |
| partOf |
Gulf of Mexico watershed
ⓘ
Mobile Bay watershed ⓘ |
| portOnRiver | Port of Mobile ⓘ |
| region |
Gulf Coast of the United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Gulf Coast
|
| state | Alabama ⓘ |
| supports |
commercial fisheries
ⓘ
recreational boating ⓘ |
| terminusNear | Gulf of Mexico ⓘ |
| usedFor |
barge traffic
ⓘ
commerce ⓘ shipping ⓘ transportation ⓘ |
| waterwayClass | navigable inland waterway ⓘ |
| waterwaySystem |
Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway
ⓘ
surface form:
Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway system
|
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: Mobile River Description of subject: The Mobile River is a major waterway in southwestern Alabama that flows into Mobile Bay and serves as an important channel for commerce and transportation.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mobile River basin
this entity surface form:
Mobile River system
this entity surface form:
Mobile River Basin
subject surface form:
Washington County, Alabama
this entity surface form:
Mobile River system
this entity surface form:
Mobile River system