Red Cedar River (Michigan)
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The Red Cedar River in Michigan is a notable waterway flowing through the campus of Michigan State University and the city of East Lansing before joining the Grand River.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Red Cedar River (Michigan) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1641413 — 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: Red Cedar River (Michigan) Context triple: [Grand River (Michigan), hasTributary, Red Cedar River (Michigan)]
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A.
White River (Michigan)
White River (Michigan) is a river in western Michigan that flows through forested and rural areas before emptying into Lake Michigan near the town of Whitehall.
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B.
Macatawa River
The Macatawa River is a waterway in western Michigan that flows through the city of Holland into Lake Macatawa, providing scenic and recreational value to the surrounding area.
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C.
Grand River (Michigan)
Grand River (Michigan) is the longest river entirely within the U.S. state of Michigan, flowing westward across the Lower Peninsula before emptying into Lake Michigan at Grand Haven.
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D.
Rogue River (Michigan)
Rogue River (Michigan) is a scenic tributary of the Grand River in western Michigan, known for its recreational opportunities such as fishing, kayaking, and canoeing.
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E.
Saginaw River
The Saginaw River is a major river in Michigan that drains a large portion of the state's Lower Peninsula and flows into Saginaw Bay on 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: Red Cedar River (Michigan) Target entity description: The Red Cedar River in Michigan is a notable waterway flowing through the campus of Michigan State University and the city of East Lansing before joining the Grand River.
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A.
White River (Michigan)
White River (Michigan) is a river in western Michigan that flows through forested and rural areas before emptying into Lake Michigan near the town of Whitehall.
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B.
Macatawa River
The Macatawa River is a waterway in western Michigan that flows through the city of Holland into Lake Macatawa, providing scenic and recreational value to the surrounding area.
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C.
Grand River (Michigan)
Grand River (Michigan) is the longest river entirely within the U.S. state of Michigan, flowing westward across the Lower Peninsula before emptying into Lake Michigan at Grand Haven.
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D.
Rogue River (Michigan)
Rogue River (Michigan) is a scenic tributary of the Grand River in western Michigan, known for its recreational opportunities such as fishing, kayaking, and canoeing.
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E.
Saginaw River
The Saginaw River is a major river in Michigan that drains a large portion of the state's Lower Peninsula and flows into Saginaw Bay on Lake Huron.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | river ⓘ |
| basinCountry | United States of America ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| crossedBy |
Farm Lane Bridge (MSU)
ⓘ
Grand River Avenue bridges in East Lansing ⓘ Kedzie Bridge (MSU) ⓘ |
| environmentalIssue |
periodic flooding
ⓘ
water quality concerns from urban runoff ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
East Lansing
ⓘ
surface form:
East Lansing, Michigan
Lansing, Michigan ⓘ Michigan State University campus ⓘ |
| hasMouthLocation | Lansing, Michigan ⓘ |
| hasNearbyCity |
East Lansing
ⓘ
surface form:
East Lansing, Michigan
Lansing, Michigan ⓘ |
| hasNearbyInstitution |
Michigan State College
ⓘ
surface form:
Michigan State University
|
| hasSignificance | central feature of Michigan State University campus ⓘ |
| hasSourceLocation | near Williamston, Michigan ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Clinton County, Michigan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ingham County, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Livingston County, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | Michigan State University fight song ⓘ |
| mouthOfWatercourse | Grand River (Michigan) ⓘ |
| namedFor | eastern red cedar ⓘ |
| partOf | Lower Peninsula of Michigan ⓘ |
| passesNear |
Okemos
ⓘ
surface form:
Okemos, Michigan
Williamston, Michigan ⓘ |
| riverSystem | Grand River watershed ⓘ |
| state |
Michigan (most of state)
ⓘ
surface form:
Michigan
|
| tributaryOf | Grand River (Michigan) ⓘ |
| usedFor |
canoeing
ⓘ
fishing ⓘ kayaking ⓘ 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: Red Cedar River (Michigan) Description of subject: The Red Cedar River in Michigan is a notable waterway flowing through the campus of Michigan State University and the city of East Lansing before joining the Grand River.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.